South Kirkby Common Road Infant and Nursery School
Primary · Pontefract · WF9 3EA
Report-card inspection (current system, from November 2025)
The headline grade shown is the Achievement area of the school's report card.
Inspected 25 November 2025 · report published 2 February 2026
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208 pupils · 81% of 258 capacity
- School type
- Community school
- Age range
- 3–7
- Gender
- Mixed
- Free school meals
- 34.9% of pupils
- English as additional language
- 7.4% of pupils
- SEN support
- 15.3% of pupils
- EHC plan
- 3.5% of pupils
- Nursery
- Yes
- Website
- wwwcommonroadschool.org.uk
- URN
- 130864
Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026
0.98 first-choice applications per place48 places offered · 47 first-choice applications · roughly balanced
First-choice applications per place, by entry year
Applications and offers on national offer day, DfE. A ratio above 1.00 means more families named this school first choice than there were places.
Attendance (2025/26 autumn term)
Autumn-term absence, DfE pupil absence data. Lower is better.
Staffing
Full-time-equivalent, 2025/26.
Teacher retention (2024/25)
100% of teachers stayed at the school the following year
School Workforce Census, DfE. The ratio counts full-time-equivalent qualified teachers; retention follows teachers in post one November to the next. Open Government Licence v3.0.
Spending per pupil
Total expenditure ÷ pupils, council-maintained school finance return (DfE Schools Financial Benchmarking, latest year). Higher spending is not a measure of quality. It often reflects greater pupil need or a smaller school. Open Government Licence v3.0.
Inspection history since 2015
- 25 November 2025: Strong standard
- 17 November 2021: Good
- 5 December 2017: Requires improvement
Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.