Spring Grove Junior Infant and Nursery School
Primary · Huddersfield · HD1 4BJ
Data updated
SchoolFacts estimate: Ofsted awarded no overall grade at this inspection
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Inspected 1 July 2025
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238 pupils · 113% of 210 capacity (over capacity) (January 2026 census)
- School type
- Academy converter
- Age range
- 3–11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Admissions
- Non-selective
- Free school meals
- 35.2% of pupils (January 2026)
- Nursery
- Yes
- Website
- www.springgrovejin.co.uk
- URN
- 151961
In figures
For September 2026 entry, 41 families named it first for 30 Reception places, 1.37 first choices per place. Its last Reception place offered on distance for 2025 entry went to 1430.43 m (≈0.89 mi); distance decided places in 5 of the 8 years of Reception rounds we hold, 2019 to 2026. At its inspection on 1 July 2025 Ofsted awarded no overall grade; the lowest of the four areas it judged was Good. In the 2025/26 autumn and spring terms its pupils missed 2.6% of sessions, against 6.6% across England.
Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026
1.37 first-choice applications per place30 places offered · 41 first-choice applications · oversubscribed
Source: DfE applications and offers on national offer day · how demand is measured
Catchment area
Catchment area: not named in the council's figures. Places by distance, last offered at 1430.43 m (≈0.89 mi) for 2025 entry.
Admissions cutoff distance: Reception
Last child offered a place under the distance criterion (2025 entry, the most recent year with a distance-only cutoff) lived within 1430.43 m (≈0.89 mi)
measured in a straight line.
Cutoff by admission criterion (2026 entry)
- Criterion 4
- 2016.85 m (≈1.25 mi)
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Source: the admissions authority's published figures · how cutoffs work
Compare admissions across the area: Huddersfield school admissions · Kirklees school admissions
Pupils by ethnicity (January 2026)
Asian Pakistani 48% (Kirklees 21%, England 5%) · Any other ethnic group 15% (Kirklees 2%, England 3%) · Any other Asian background 10% (Kirklees 3%, England 2%) · Mixed White and Black African 5% (Kirklees 1%, England 1%) · Any other Black background 4% (Kirklees 0%, England 1%) · White British 4% (Kirklees 52%, England 60%) · Asian Indian 2% (Kirklees 6%, England 4%) · Black African 2% (Kirklees 3%, England 5%) · Any other Mixed background 2% (Kirklees 2%, England 3%) · Asian Bangladeshi 2% (Kirklees 0%, England 2%) · Mixed White and Asian 2% (Kirklees 2%, England 2%) · Any other White background 1% (Kirklees 3%, England 7%) · Asian Chinese 1% (Kirklees 0%, England 1%) · Not recorded 1% (Kirklees 1%, England 1%)
Source: DfE schools, pupils and their characteristics, January 2026 census · how to read these figures
Attendance (2025/26 autumn and spring terms)
Source: DfE pupil absence data, autumn and spring terms · how absence is measured
Staffing
Full-time-equivalent, 2025/26.
Vacancies (November 2025)
0% of teaching posts vacant, 0% filled temporarily · England, primary academies: 0.3% vacant, 0.32% temporary
Teacher pay (November 2025)
Mean salary of full-time qualified teachers £52,926; 23.1% on the leadership pay range · England, primary schools: £50,856, 17.3%
Source: DfE School Workforce Census · how these figures are counted
The area around the school
- Child poverty (IDACI)
- 3/10more deprived than most of England
- Overall deprivation (IMD)
- 2/10among the most deprived fifth of England
| Census 2021 | This area | England |
|---|---|---|
| Adults with a degree or higher | 32.3% | 33.9% |
| Adults with no qualifications | 26.5% | 18.1% |
| In managerial or professional work | 21.6% | 33.2% |
| Households deprived in two or more ways | 28.6% | 18.1% |
| Residents in very good health | 40.4% | 48.5% |
| Homes owned by the occupier | 43.6% | 62.3% |
| Social housing | 26% | 17.1% |
| Privately rented | 29.9% | 20.5% |
| Detached houses | 10.9% | 22.9% |
| Flats | 37.5% | 22.2% |
| Homes with four or more bedrooms | 25.2% | 21.1% |
| Households with no car or van | 39.4% | 23.5% |
These figures describe the area, not the pupils. Source: Census 2021 (ONS) and English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (MHCLG) for small area E01011232 · how to read area figures
What homes cost nearby
- Median sale price
- £116,000154 sales within 1 km, January 2024 to September 2026
- Typical range
- £88,000–£174,000the middle half of sales
- England median
- £300,000all sales over the same period
Homes around this school are among the cheapest tenth of school neighbourhoods in England, comparing the median within 1 km across every state school.
Inside the Reception cutoff distance (1.43 km, 2025 entry): 488 sales, median £125,000. The homes that would have got a child in that year, at the straight-line distance the school last filled to.
Source: HM Land Registry sales within 1 km since January 2024 · how sales are counted. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Postcodes located with OS Code-Point Open: contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026; contains Royal Mail data © Royal Mail copyright and database right 2026; contains National Statistics data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.
Roads around the school
- Child pedestrian casualties
- 4an urban school averages 2.0
- Collisions at school-run times
- 10an urban school averages 5.7
- All reported collisions
- 56an urban school averages 30.5
- Of those, serious or fatal
- 14an urban school averages 6.1
A high count usually reflects traffic, not an unsafe school. Source: DfT road casualty statistics (STATS19), collisions within 500 m, 2021–2025 · what is counted