Featherstone North Featherstone Junior and Infant School

Community school·Primary school Pontefract, Wakefield·WF7 6LW
Composite score
32.0
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#13,085
National rank
#1395
In Yorkshire and The Humber
#86
In Wakefield
Top 88%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
42%
% achieving higher RWM
4%
Reading average scaled score
101.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
101.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
100%
39 first choices, 41 places
First choices per place
0.95
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
82
any preference, for 41 places
Applications from another council area
1%
First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.02
00.511.5
1 per place
1.0020220.9320230.9720240.9320250.952026

Red dashed line = one first choice per place. How to read this

Every child who put Featherstone North Featherstone Junior and Infant 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
3–11
Pupils on roll
343
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
23.8%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
7.3%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
23.3%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
4.7%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
5.8%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
17.2%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
23.5
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£6,683
Typical primary: £6,960

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

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About Featherstone North Featherstone Junior and Infant School

Featherstone North Featherstone Junior and Infant School is a primary school in Pontefract, Wakefield, classified by the DfE as a community school. Around 343 pupils aged 3 to 11 attend the school. In the most recent Key Stage 2 SATs, 42% of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths combined — well below the national average of 61%. That is down 14.0 percentage points in the proportion reaching the expected standard on the previous 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 101 in reading and 101 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). 4% reached the higher standard across all three subjects (around 8% do so nationally). Featherstone North Featherstone Junior and Infant School was not oversubscribed for September 2026: all 39 families who put it first were offered a place. Overall pupil absence was 5.8%. There are about 23.5 pupils per teacher. Featherstone North Featherstone Junior and Infant School does not currently have a recent graded Ofsted judgement on record (often the case for newer or recently converted schools), so it is worth asking when its next inspection is expected. 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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