Streethouse Junior, Infant and Nursery School

Community school·Primary school Pontefract, Wakefield·WF7 6DJ
Composite score
26.0
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#13,919
National rank
#1484
In Yorkshire and The Humber
#94
In Wakefield
Top 94%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
40%
% achieving higher RWM
0%
Reading average scaled score
103.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
102.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Ofsted judgements

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Overall effectiveness
Requires improvement
Quality of education
Requires improvement
Behaviour and attitudes
Good
Personal development
Good
Leadership and management
Good
Safeguarding effective?
Yes
Early years provision
Good

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
100%
11 first choices, 11 places
First choices per place
1.00
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
16
any preference, for 11 places
First preferences per place, last five years▶ 0.00
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1 per place
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Red dashed line = one first choice per place. How to read this

Every child who put Streethouse Junior, Infant and Nursery School first was offered a place in 2026, so no distance cut-off applied: living further away did not cost a place that year.

Application figures: DfE, school level applications and offers (2026 intake).

School profile

Age range
2–11
Pupils on roll
103
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
46.4%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
12.6%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
45.6%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
7.8%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
8.1%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
26.4%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
19.1
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£9,878
Typical primary: £6,960

“Typical” = the median primary school in England. What this means

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Location

Streethouse Junior, Infant and Nursery School at a glance

Located in Pontefract, Wakefield, Streethouse Junior, Infant and Nursery School is a primary school, classified by the DfE as a community school. The school educates roughly 103 pupils aged 2 to 11. Ofsted judged the school to be 'Requires improvement' at its most recent inspection. 40% of its pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of Key Stage 2, well below the national average (national figure: 61%). The proportion reaching the expected standard has risen by 9.0 percentage points year on year, though small year groups can make these figures swing sharply from year to year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it in the lower half of primary schools nationally.

Pupils achieved an average scaled score of 103 in reading and 102 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). Getting a place is straightforward: for the September 2026 intake every family who made Streethouse Junior, Infant and Nursery School their first choice was offered one of its 11 Reception places. Overall pupil absence was 8.1%. There are about 19.1 pupils per teacher. The school serves a community with above-average levels of disadvantage: about 46% of pupils have been eligible for free school meals in the last six years, compared with roughly 24% nationally — useful context when reading the results above. If you are considering Streethouse Junior, Infant and Nursery School, it may be worth asking how leaders have responded to Ofsted's findings and what has changed since the inspection. This overview is generated automatically from the latest published DfE performance tables and Ofsted data; figures are rounded, and you can check the originals via the official links above.

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