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Riverside Junior School

PrimaryAges 7–11Community

Hebden Bridge, HX7 8EE · Calderdale local authority

Hebden Bridge’s School Grade B better than 61% of towns in England

Its letter
48%
of England’s primaries have lower KS2 results
How full
118 pupils
47% of its 250 places
Free school meals
20%
20 in 100 pupils eligible · outlined square = England’s schools (25)
The gist

What stands out about Riverside Junior School

  • Its own letter, B−: Key Stage 2 results better than 48% of England’s primary schools
  • Room to spare: 118 pupils for 250 places
  • Ofsted: Inspected, October 2024 (shown, not graded)
  • Homes in its postcode sector (HX7 8) sold for a median £247,500; Hebden Bridge’s is £250,000

Results

DfE · Key Stage 2

Reading, writing and maths 62%

Met the expected standard, DfE’s 3-year average 2023–2025 · higher than 48% of England’s 14,979 graded primaries · Calderdale avg 60%

0%20%40%60%80%100%England avg 61.6%Riverside Junior 62%

Each subject, 2025

Met the expected standard; the mark is England’s schools · average scaled score: reading 108, maths 107 (100 = the expected standard)

Reading80%
England’s schools 77%
Writing (teacher assessed)74%
England’s schools 73%
Maths77%
England’s schools 75%
Grammar, punctuation and spelling66%
England’s schools 74%

Disadvantaged pupils, 2025

Met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths: the 10 disadvantaged pupils and the rest, beside England’s schools

Disadvantaged
50%England 48.5%
Not disadvantaged
80%England 69.4%
Reached the higher standard in all three6%
England’s schools 8% · Calderdale 6% · 2025

England’s figures are of its graded mainstream state schools, each school counted once; grammar schools are included, which is why the right-hand tail is long. Small cohorts are suppressed.

Hebden Bridge and Calderdale, side by side

2023–2025

All 79 graded primaries in Calderdale. Schools with more pupils on free school meals usually score lower, so a school above the crowd for its free school meals is doing better than its intake predicts. Hebden Bridge’s schools are coloured by their letter.

25%36%47%58%69%80%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%Pupils eligible for free school meals →KS2 expected standard →Old TownHebden Royd CofE
ABCDElsewhere in CalderdaleRiverside Junior
Show as a table
SchoolLetterFree school mealsKS2 expected standard
The Greetland AcademyA+11%85%
St John's Primary School In RishworthA+4%83%
Wainstalls SchoolA+11%83%
Scout Road AcademyA13%79%
Luddendenfoot AcademyA13%79%
Trinity Academy St Chad'sA15%79%
Bowling Green AcademyA20%79%
Bailiffe Bridge Junior and Infant SchoolA13%77%
St Mary's CofE (VC) J and I SchoolA5%76%
Woodhouse Primary SchoolA−9%75%
St Andrew's CofE (VA) Junior SchoolA−29%74%
All Saints' CofE Primary SchoolA−11%74%
Shade Primary SchoolA−18%73%
Abbey Park AcademyA−45%72%
Beech Hill SchoolA−37%71%
St John's (CofE) Primary Academy, CliftonA−7%71%
Bradshaw Primary SchoolA−17%71%
Dean Field Community Primary SchoolA−54%71%
St Joseph's Roman Catholic Voluntary AcademyA−70%71%
Northowram Primary SchoolB+11%70%
Parkinson Lane Community Primary SchoolB+35%70%
West Vale AcademyB+45%69%
Norland CE SchoolB+20%68%
Bolton Brow Primary AcademyB+15%68%
Christ Church Sowerby Bridge CofE (VA) Primary SchoolB46%67%
Warley Road Primary AcademyB33%67%
Heptonstall Junior Infant and Nursery SchoolB12%67%
Withinfields Primary SchoolB29%66%
Old Earth Primary SchoolB15%66%
St Joseph's Catholic Primary AcademyB23%66%
Copley Primary SchoolB10%65%
Barkisland CofE VA Primary SchoolB−4%64%
Todmorden CofE J, I & N SchoolB−27%64%
Walsden St Peter's CE (VC) Primary SchoolB−12%64%
Colden Junior and Infant SchoolB−11%63%
Ripponden Junior and Infant SchoolB−11%63%
Midgley SchoolB−9%63%
Salterhebble Junior and Infant SchoolB−19%62%
Riverside Junior SchoolB−20%62%
Cross Lane Primary and Nursery SchoolB−37%62%
St Joseph's Catholic Primary Academy, BrighouseB−16%62%
The Calder Learning TrustB−28%62%
Warley Town SchoolB−9%61%
Trinity Academy WhitehillB−29%61%
Mount Pellon Primary AcademyB−52%61%
St Mary's Catholic Primary AcademyC+30%60%
Hebden Royd CofE Primary SchoolC+17%60%
Longroyde Primary SchoolC+32%59%
Triangle CofE VC Primary SchoolC+15%59%
The Halifax AcademyC+41%59%
Old Town Primary SchoolC+13%59%
Ling Bob Junior, Infant and Nursery SchoolC+45%58%
Holywell Green Primary SchoolC+19%58%
Sacred Heart Catholic Voluntary AcademyC39%57%
Lightcliffe C of E Primary SchoolC10%57%
Salterlee Primary SchoolC16%56%
Carr Green Primary SchoolC16%55%
Castle Hill Primary SchoolC23%55%
Trinity Academy St Peter'sC47%55%
New Road Primary SchoolC35%54%
Ash Green Community Primary SchoolC−60%52%
Trinity Academy AkroydonC−40%52%
Cliffe Hill Community Primary SchoolC−52%51%
Shelf Junior and Infant SchoolC−13%50%
Holy Trinity Primary School, A Church of England AcademyC−27%49%
Savile Park Primary SchoolC−28%48%
Ferney Lee Primary SchoolD29%46%
Lee Mount AcademyD54%45%
Moorside Community Primary SchoolD65%44%
Burnley Road AcademyD38%43%
Field Lane Primary SchoolD69%43%
St Michael and All Angels CofE Primary & Pre SchoolD20%41%
Siddal Primary SchoolD40%41%
Christ Church Pellon CofE VC Primary SchoolD−60%35%
St Patrick's Catholic Primary AcademyD−19%35%
St Augustine's CofE SchoolD−63%32%
Cornholme Junior, Infant and Nursery SchoolD−39%28%
St Malachy's Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary AcademyD−56%28%
Elland Church of England (Voluntary Aided) Junior, Infant and Nursery SchoolD−64%26%

Who goes here

DfE school census, January 2025

118 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
17.8%England 15.3%
EHC plan
13.6%England 3.6%
English as an additional language
6.8%England 18.8%
Free school meals in the last 6 years
20.3%England 26.2%

Girls and boys

Girls 42%Boys 58%
Its letter

Riverside Junior School’s letter

Its own results against England’s schools, not the town’s School Grade.

Primary: KS2 reading, writing and maths B−Better than 48% of 15,230 schools
How school letters are worked out

Each school’s measure is compared with every graded school in England of the same phase: for primaries, the share of pupils meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (DfE’s three-year average); for secondaries, Attainment 8 and the share with grade 5 or above in English and maths, each turned into a z-score against England’s schools and averaged. The letter comes from the share of those schools it beats, in the same bands as every grade on the site. The same method gives U.S. schools their letters, against their own state.

A+ 95+A 85–94A− 75–84B+ 65–74B 55–64B− 45–54C+ 35–44C 25–34C− 15–24D 5–14D− 0–4

Graded: England’s open mainstream state schools with published results (grammar schools included, which select by test). Not graded: special schools, alternative provision, nurseries, 16–19 colleges, UTCs and studio schools, Welsh schools. Ofsted plays no part.

Ofsted

Ofsted inspections

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

Ungraded inspection: Standards maintained, October 2024.

The full reports on Ofsted ↗

Living nearby

Living near Riverside Junior School

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

Home prices in HX7 8, the school’s postcode sector

Hebden Bridge property prices →
£247,500
median sale, 187 sales in 36 months · Hebden Bridge £250,000

Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025

£100K£150K£200K£250K£300K2010201520202025HX7 8Hebden Bridge
HX7 8Hebden Bridge

By type, the 36 months to August 2026

Detached
£400K
Semi-detached
£280K
Terraced
£240K
Flat
£240K
HX7 8Hebden Bridge

Homes in HX7 8 sell for about the same as Hebden Bridge’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 miNDBC+C+B−Riverside Junior School
ABCDNo letterPrimarySecondary / all-through

Hebden Bridge, HX7 8EE

Riverside Junior School: common questions

Is Riverside Junior School a good school?

By its published results, about average: its Key Stage 2 results are better than 48% of England’s primary schools (its letter is B−), with 62% of pupils meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, against 62% for England’s schools. Ofsted: Inspected, October 2024.

What is Riverside Junior School’s Ofsted rating?

Its latest inspection outcome is Inspected (October 2024).

How much do houses cost near Riverside Junior School?

Homes in its postcode sector, HX7 8, sold for a median £247,500 over the 36 months to August 2026 (187 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; Hebden Bridge’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.

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