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Featherstone Purston Infant School

PrimaryAges 3–7Community

Featherstone, WF7 5HF · Wakefield local authority

Featherstone’s School Grade C− better than 17% of towns in England

Getting in
55/55
first choices offered a place, 2026 (England: 93%)
How full
203 pupils
113% of its 180 places
Free school meals
19%
19 in 100 pupils eligible · outlined square = England’s schools (25)
The gist

What stands out about Featherstone Purston Infant School

  • No letter for this school: the reason is below.
  • Over capacity: 203 pupils for 180 places
  • Ofsted: Good, February 2023 (shown, not graded)
  • Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026 (55 of 55)
  • Homes in its postcode sector (WF7 5) sold for a median £190,000; Featherstone’s is £177,750
Getting in

How hard is it to get a place at Featherstone Purston Infant School?

Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026.

55
families put it first for September 2026
56
places offered
100%
of first choices offered a place (England’s primaries: 93%)
First choices and places, by year of entry
20192020202120222023202420252026
Families who put it firstPlaces offered
Red figures: first choices not offered a place

Years when some first choices missed out: 2022 (1). The council runs the coordinated admissions; each school’s rules (siblings, distance, faith) decide who gets in. DfE doesn’t publish the furthest distance offered, so check the council’s admissions booklet for that. Wakefield council sets the admissions rules. Apply through Wakefield council’s coordinated admissions.

Demand for primary schools in Featherstone, September 2026

Outline = places offered · green = families who put it first · striped = more first choices than places

1.10 per place
85% got their first choice
Featherstone Purston Infant
0.98 per place
100% got their first choice
0.96 per place
100% got their first choice
0.95 per place
100% got their first choice

Who goes here

DfE school census, January 2025

203 pupils. SEN support is extra help in school for a special educational need; an EHC plan is the council’s legal plan for pupils who need more.

SEN support
14.3%England 15.3%
EHC plan
3%England 3.6%
English as an additional language
6.9%England 18.8%
Free school meals in the last 6 years
30.7%England 26.2%

Girls and boys

Girls 49%Boys 51%
Its letter

No letter for Featherstone Purston Infant School

An infant school: pupils move on at 7, before the Key Stage 2 tests at 11, so there are no results to grade.

Letters go to England’s open mainstream state schools with published Key Stage 2 or GCSE results (grammar schools included), each against the schools of its own phase.

Ofsted

Ofsted inspections

Shown, not graded: Ofsted is never part of a letter or the School Grade.

Graded inspection: Good, February 2023.

The full reports on Ofsted ↗

Living nearby

Living near Featherstone Purston Infant School

For families thinking of moving: what homes cost around the school, and the other schools close by.

Home prices in WF7 5, the school’s postcode sector

Featherstone property prices →
£190,000
median sale, 303 sales in 36 months · Featherstone £177,750

Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025

£50K£100K£150K£200K£250K2010201520202025WF7 5Featherstone
WF7 5Featherstone

By type, the 36 months to August 2026

Detached
£280K
Semi-detached
£200K
Terraced
£160K
Flat
£115K
WF7 5Featherstone

Homes in WF7 5 sell for a little over Featherstone’s typical price. HM Land Registry Price Paid, standard sales. Catchments aren’t published, so the postcode sector stands in for “around the school”.

Schools within 1.6 miles

6 state schools
0.5 mi1 mi1.5 miNDDCA+A−Featherstone Purston Infant…
ABCDNo letterPrimarySecondary / all-through

Featherstone, WF7 5HF

Featherstone Purston Infant School: common questions

How hard is it to get into Featherstone Purston Infant School?

For September 2026, 55 families put Featherstone Purston Infant School first and all of them were offered a place; 56 places were offered in all.

What is Featherstone Purston Infant School’s Ofsted rating?

Its latest inspection outcome is Good (February 2023).

How much do houses cost near Featherstone Purston Infant School?

Homes in its postcode sector, WF7 5, sold for a median £190,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (303 sales).

Sources: DfE Get Information about Schools (16 October 2026), Key Stage 2 performance tables (2023–2025, three-year average) and Key Stage 4 (2025/26, provisional); Ofsted state-funded school inspections as at 30 September 2026. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Also: DfE Key Stage 4 performance, schools data (2023/24 and 2024/25 final, 2025/26 provisional) and Key Stage 2 performance tables 2024/25 by subject; DfE school census, January 2025; DfE school-level applications and offers, September 2019 to 2026 entry; HM Land Registry Price Paid by postcode sector, 2010 to August 2026.

A school’s letter is our own summary of its published results against England’s schools of the same phase; Featherstone’s School Grade is a separate grade, built from the results of the schools in and around the town against other towns. Map: © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026 (ONS boundaries). Northern Ireland: Source: NISRA; contains Land & Property Services data and Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland information, © Crown copyright, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Scotland: contains National Records of Scotland data, Registers of Scotland data and SEPA data, © Crown copyright / © SEPA 2025, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.