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Hightown Primary School

Primary · Liversedge · WF15 8BL

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Needs attention

Report-card inspection (current system, from November 2025)

The headline grade shown is the Achievement area of the school's report card.

Safeguarding: MetCurriculum & teaching: Expected standardAchievement: Needs attentionAttendance & behaviour: Expected standardPersonal development: Strong standardInclusion: Expected standardLeadership & governance: Expected standardEarly years: Expected standardPost-16: Not applicable

Inspected 14 April 2026 · report published 7 June 2026

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At a glance

School type
Academy converter
Age range
3–11
Gender
Mixed
Nursery
Yes
Website
www.hightown.kirklees.sch.uk
URN
152495

Admissions cutoff distance: Reception

Every applicant was offered a place for 2026 entry, so distance was not needed to decide places.

Last child offered a place under the distance criterion (2024 entry, the most recent year with a distance-only cutoff) lived within 1697.39 m (≈1.05 mi)

measured in a straight line.

Cutoff distance by entry year

21
22
24

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Cutoff distances as published by the local authority. Siblings and other priority groups are offered places first; cutoffs move year to year.

The area around the school

Child poverty (IDACI)
8/10less deprived than most of England
Overall deprivation (IMD)
9/10among the least deprived fifth of England

English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (MHCLG), decile of the small area the school stands in: 1 is the most deprived tenth of England, 10 the least. IDACI counts only children in low-income families, which is the measure closest to the intake a school is likely to draw on.

Census 2021This areaEngland
Adults with a degree or higher27.4%33.9%
Adults with no qualifications15.7%18.1%
In managerial or professional work35.9%33.2%
Households deprived in two or more ways10.9%18.1%
Residents in very good health43.9%48.5%
Homes owned by the occupier78.9%62.3%
Social housing3%17.1%
Privately rented18.1%20.5%
Detached houses18.4%22.9%
Flats9%22.2%
Homes with four or more bedrooms18.1%21.1%
Households with no car or van16.7%23.5%

Census 2021 (ONS) for statistical area E01011066 (a lower layer super output area), the neighbourhood of roughly 1,248 adults that the school stands in. These figures describe the area, not the pupils. Children travel in from further away, and for selective, faith and some other schools usually much further. Open Government Licence v3.0.

What homes cost nearby

Median sale price
£209,000190 sales within 1 km, January 2024 to July 2026
Typical range
£165,000–£304,000the middle half of sales
England median
£300,000all sales over the same period
Detached (52)£377,500
Semi-detached (81)£200,000
Terraced (50)£152,500
Flat (7)£140,000

Homes around this school are cheaper than three quarters of school neighbourhoods in England, comparing the median within 1 km across every state school.

Inside the Reception cutoff distance (1.70 km, 2024 entry): 531 sales, median £195,000. The homes that would have got a child in that year, at the straight-line distance the school last filled to.

Every residential sale registered with HM Land Registry within 1 km of the school (straight line) since January 2024, market sales of houses and flats only. A sale is dated by completion and registered weeks later, so the most recent months are incomplete. 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
0an urban school averages 2.0
Collisions at school-run times
1an urban school averages 5.8
All reported collisions
7an urban school averages 30.6
Of those, serious or fatal
3an urban school averages 6.1

Every collision reported to the police within 500 m of the school in 2021–2025, from the Department for Transport's road casualty statistics (STATS19). "Child pedestrians" counts casualties aged under 16 on foot; "school-run times" means weekdays 07:30–09:00 and 15:00–16:30 outside August. A high count usually says the school sits on or near a busy road, not that the school is unsafe: counts rise with traffic and with how built-up an area is, which is why the comparison is with other urban schools. Distances are straight-line from the school's recorded position. Open Government Licence v3.0.

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