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Brambles Primary Academy

PrimaryAges 4–11Free school

Huddersfield, HD1 5BU · Kirklees local authority

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

Its letter
31%
of England’s primaries have lower KS2 results
Getting in
39/39
first choices offered a place, 2026 (England: 93%)
How full
382 pupils
91% of its 420 places
Free school meals
31%
31 in 100 pupils eligible · outlined square = England’s schools (25)
The gist

What stands out about Brambles Primary Academy

  • Its own letter, C: Key Stage 2 results better than 31% of England’s primary schools
  • Ofsted: Good, January 2023 (shown, not graded)
  • Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026 (39 of 39)
  • 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 Brambles Primary Academy?

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

39
families put it first for September 2026
45
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 (9). 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. South Pennine Academies 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
Brambles Primary
0.87 per place
100% got their first choice

Who goes here

DfE school census, January 2025

379 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
10.8%England 15.3%
EHC plan
4.2%England 3.6%
English as an additional language
23.5%England 18.8%
Free school meals in the last 6 years
31.1%England 26.2%

Girls and boys

Girls 47%Boys 53%
Its letter

Brambles Primary Academy’s letter

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

Primary: KS2 reading, writing and maths CBetter than 31% 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.

Graded inspection: Good, January 2023.

The full reports on Ofsted ↗

Living nearby

Living near Brambles Primary Academy

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

21 state schools
0.5 mi1 mi1.5 miNC+DC+C−CDBDB+D−C+C+BB−B−A+B−CBrambles Primary Academy
ABCDNo letterPrimarySecondary / all-through

Huddersfield, HD1 5BU

Brambles Primary Academy: common questions

Is Brambles Primary Academy a good school?

By its published results, below average: its Key Stage 2 results are better than 31% of England’s primary schools (its letter is C), with 0% of pupils meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, against 62% for England’s schools. Ofsted: Good, January 2023.

How hard is it to get into Brambles Primary Academy?

For September 2026, 39 families put Brambles Primary Academy first and all of them were offered a place; 45 places were offered in all.

What is Brambles Primary Academy’s Ofsted rating?

Its latest inspection outcome is Good (January 2023).

How much do houses cost near Brambles Primary Academy?

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.

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.