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Birkby Infant and Nursery School

PrimaryAges 3–7Community

Huddersfield, HD1 5HQ · Kirklees local authority

Huddersfield’s School Grade C better than 26% of towns in England

Getting in
105/105
first choices offered a place, 2026 (England: 93%)
How full
457 pupils
90% of its 510 places
Free school meals
28%
28 in 100 pupils eligible · outlined square = England’s schools (25)
The gist

What stands out about Birkby Infant and Nursery School

  • No letter for this school: the reason is below.
  • Ofsted: Inspected, April 2025 (shown, not graded)
  • Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026 (105 of 105)
  • Homes in its postcode sector (HD1 5) sold for a median £140,000; Huddersfield’s is £179,475
Getting in

How hard is it to get a place at Birkby Infant and Nursery School?

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

105
families put it first for September 2026
112
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: 2024 (8), 2025 (21). 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. Kirklees council sets the admissions rules. Apply through Kirklees council’s coordinated admissions.

Demand for primary schools in Huddersfield, September 2026

Outline = places offered · green = families who put it first · striped = more first choices than places · the 10 most in demand

1.50 per place
64% got their first choice
1.37 per place
73% got their first choice
1.27 per place
79% got their first choice
1.20 per place
81% got their first choice
1.16 per place
86% got their first choice
1.02 per place
93% got their first choice
1.00 per place
100% got their first choice
1.00 per place
100% got their first choice
1.00 per place
100% got their first choice
Birkby Infant and Nursery
0.94 per place
100% got their first choice

Who goes here

DfE school census, January 2025

491 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
20%England 15.3%
EHC plan
2.7%England 3.6%
English as an additional language
82.9%England 18.8%
Free school meals in the last 6 years
35%England 26.2%

Girls and boys

Girls 48%Boys 52%
Its letter

No letter for Birkby Infant and Nursery 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.

Ungraded inspection: Standards maintained, April 2025.

The full reports on Ofsted ↗

Living nearby

Living near Birkby Infant and Nursery School

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

Home prices in HD1 5, the school’s postcode sector

Huddersfield property prices →
£140,000
median sale, 61 sales in 36 months · Huddersfield £179,475

Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025

£50K£100K£150K£200K2010201520202025HD1 5Huddersfield
HD1 5Huddersfield

By type, the 36 months to August 2026

Detached
£463K
Semi-detached
£260K
Terraced
£119K
Flat
£116K
HD1 5Huddersfield

Homes in HD1 5 sell for well under Huddersfield’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

20 state schools
0.5 mi1 mi1.5 miNC+DC+C−CDBDB+CC+C+BB−B−A+B−Birkby Infant and Nursery S…
ABCDNo letterPrimarySecondary / all-through

Huddersfield, HD1 5HQ

Birkby Infant and Nursery School: common questions

How hard is it to get into Birkby Infant and Nursery School?

For September 2026, 105 families put Birkby Infant and Nursery School first and all of them were offered a place; 112 places were offered in all.

What is Birkby Infant and Nursery School’s Ofsted rating?

Its latest inspection outcome is Inspected (April 2025).

How much do houses cost near Birkby Infant and Nursery School?

Homes in its postcode sector, HD1 5, sold for a median £140,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (61 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; Huddersfield’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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