Moorthorpe Primary School With Inclusion Resource

Community school·Primary school Pontefract, Wakefield·WF9 2BL
Composite score
22.8
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#14,254
National rank
#1526
In Yorkshire and The Humber
#96
In Wakefield
Top 96%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
35%
% achieving higher RWM
0%
Reading average scaled score
101.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
99.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
100%
17 first choices, 20 places
First choices per place
0.85
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
62
any preference, for 20 places
Applications from another council area
5%
First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.09
00.511.5
1 per place
1.0020221.0320230.8820240.7620250.852026

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

Every child who put Moorthorpe Primary School With Inclusion Resource 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
252
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
45.5%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
6.7%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
15.5%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
10.3%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
6.4%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
16.9%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
22.4
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£7,268
Typical primary: £6,960

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

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Location

Moorthorpe Primary School With Inclusion Resource at a glance

Located in Pontefract, Wakefield, Moorthorpe Primary School With Inclusion Resource is a primary school, classified by the DfE as a community school. The school educates roughly 252 pupils aged 3 to 11. 35% 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 fallen by 9.0 percentage points compared with 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 99 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). Getting a place is straightforward: for the September 2026 intake every family who made Moorthorpe Primary School With Inclusion Resource their first choice was offered one of its 20 Reception places. Overall pupil absence was 6.4%. There are about 22.4 pupils per teacher. The school serves a community with above-average levels of disadvantage: about 45% 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. Moorthorpe Primary School With Inclusion Resource 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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