Townville Academy

Academy sponsor led·Infant school Castleford, Wakefield·WF10 3QJ

School type

Infant school

Ages 3–7

Key Stage 2 performance

Townville Academy is an infant school for pupils aged 3–7. Pupils move on to a separate junior or middle school before Year 6, so the school does not enter pupils for the Key Stage 2 SATs and has no KS2 results to publish.

This applies to every infant school in England — it does not mean data is missing. Ofsted judgements and school information are shown below.

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first

100%

20 first choices, 20 places

First choices per place

1.00

fewer first choices than places

Applications naming the school

any preference, for 20 places

Every child who put Townville Academy 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).

Ofsted judgements

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Overall effectiveness

Requires improvement

Quality of education

Requires improvement

Behaviour and attitudes

Requires improvement

Personal development

Good

Leadership and management

Requires improvement

Safeguarding effective?

Yes

Early years provision

Good

School profile

Age range: 3–7
Pupils on roll: 121
Gender: Mixed
Religious character: None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6

39.0%

Typical primary: 21.5%

% EAL

14.0%

Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support

19.8%

Typical primary: 14.3%

% with an EHC plan

5.8%

Typical primary: 3.0%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher

16.4

Typical primary: 20.7

Spend per pupil

£8,297

Typical primary: £6,960

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

Nearby primary schools

Airedale Junior Academy Castleford · 0.2 mi 45.0 Fairburn View Primary School, Castleford Castleford · 0.4 mi 19.5 Oyster Park Primary Academy Castleford · 0.6 mi 28.0 Castleford Park Junior Academy Castleford · 1.2 mi 50.2 Orchard Head Junior and Infant and Nursery School Pontefract · 1.3 mi 88.2 St Joseph's Catholic Primary School Castleford Castleford · 1.4 mi 42.0 Smawthorne Henry Moore Academy Castleford · 1.6 mi 30.6 Willow Green Academy Knottingley · 1.6 mi 44.4

Location

Official sources

Latest Ofsted report reports.ofsted.gov.uk DfE Compare School Performance compare-school-performance.service.gov.uk GIAS school details get-information-schools.service.gov.uk

Townville Academy at a glance

Located in Castleford, Wakefield, Townville Academy is a primary school, classified by the DfE as a sponsor-led academy. The school educates roughly 121 pupils aged 3 to 7. Ofsted judged the school to be 'Requires improvement' at its most recent inspection.

Getting a place is straightforward: for the September 2026 intake every family who made Townville Academy their first choice was offered one of its 20 Reception places. There are about 16.4 pupils per teacher. The school serves a community with above-average levels of disadvantage: about 39% 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 Townville Academy, 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.