Fitzwilliam Primary School

Academy converter·Primary school Pontefract, Wakefield·WF9 5BA
Composite score
32.5
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#12,879
National rank
#1371
In Yorkshire and The Humber
#85
In Wakefield
Top 88%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
50%
% achieving higher RWM
0%
Reading average scaled score
104.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
101.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Ofsted judgements

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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
97%
31 first choices, 30 places
First choices per place
1.03
more first choices than places
Applications naming the school
54
any preference, for 30 places
First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.03
00.511.5
1 per place
1.0020221.0020231.3020241.0020251.032026

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

Wakefield does not publish how far from the school the last child offered a Reception place lived, so there is no cut-off distance to show for Fitzwilliam Primary School. Ask the school or the council how places were allocated this year.

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

School profile

Age range
2–11
Pupils on roll
227
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
30.8%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
7.0%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
18.1%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
2.6%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
6.4%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
17.0%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
20.1
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£6,430
Typical primary: £6,960

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

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About Fitzwilliam Primary School

Fitzwilliam Primary School is a primary school in Pontefract, Wakefield, classified by the DfE as a converter academy. Around 227 pupils aged 2 to 11 attend the school. 50% of its pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of Key Stage 2, below the national average (national figure: 61%). The proportion reaching the expected standard has risen by 25.0 percentage points year on 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 104 in reading and 101 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). Fitzwilliam Primary School is oversubscribed: about 10 in 10 of the families who made it their first choice were offered a Reception place for September 2026, with 31 first choices for 30 places. Overall pupil absence was 6.4%. There are about 20.1 pupils per teacher. Fitzwilliam Primary 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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