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Primary school in Holmfirth, Kirklees

New Mill Junior School

Royds Avenue, New Mill, Holmfirth, West Yorkshire, HD9 1LJ

Ofsted Outstanding · 2024
School website 01484955820
Ofsted Outstanding June 2024
Met the expected standard 64% around the middle nationally
Pupils 132 55% full
Local deprivation 4/10 mid-range

Ofsted

Outstandingas at 18 June 2024

Graded Outstanding at its last graded inspection, on 18 June 2024.

Ofsted stopped awarding single-word overall grades in September 2024. This grade is 2 years old and will not be updated — the school keeps it until its next inspection, which will not produce a replacement grade.

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Current published outcome
Outstanding
Last overall grade in this dataset
Outstanding
Days since inspection
836 days
Framework era
Historic overall-grade framework (ended September 2024)

These four fields describe the latest published inspection on this record. The dataset does not keep a previous inspection row, so a school inspected under the current framework will usually have no overall grade to show as “prior”.

Key stage 2 results 2024/25

Met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths

64% England 60.7%

Reached the higher standard

6% England 8.1%

Average reading score

105 England 105.3

Average maths score

104 England 104.1

On the headline measure this school is around the middle of state-funded primaries in England.

Compared with the fifth of schools whose intake is second least disadvantaged, which is where this one sits, it is in the lower half.

There are no progress measures for primary schools any more. They were calculated from a key stage 1 baseline, and statutory key stage 1 tests ended in 2023, so nothing has been published since. That makes attainment the only official measure — and attainment tracks intake closely, which is why the comparison against similar schools above is the more useful of the two lines.

Pupils

Pupils on roll
132
Places
240
How full
55% full — 132 of 240 places taken, so places are likely to be available
Girls / boys
61 / 71
Overall absence
4%

primary schools average 5.2%

Persistently absent
10%

primary schools average 12.8% — pupils missing 10% or more of sessions

Free school meals, last 6 years
23%

England 25.7%

English as an additional language
7%

England 18.7%

With an EHC plan
5%

England 3.5%

On SEN support
18%

England 15%

School funding 2025-26 financial year

Not found for this URN in the 2025-26 release.

Evidence found
Not found for this URN in the 2025-26 release; this is not represented as £0.
Source coverage
DfE mainstream-school allocations for running costs for pupils aged 5-16, importer snapshot 23 August 2026.
What this means
The official mainstream allocation release does not provide a publishable row for this establishment.
What this does not mean
The school received no public funding or has no budget; other establishment types and funding streams use different publications.

Allocation is not expenditure. DfE says this release combines the schools block with several other revenue grants and excludes capital spending. Funding is shown for context and is never used in School Facts ordering, peer groups or quality claims. Source, licence and coverage.

Roads and getting there

Road casualties within 500m

Child pedestrian casualties
0

England average 1.6 — pedestrians under 16, over five years

All reported collisions
8

England average 24.2 over five years

Of those, serious or fatal
2

Public transport

Bus stops within 500m
30

England average 11.9

Nearest station
Brockholes Rail Station

2.3 km away — railway station

Every collision reported to the police within 500m of the school over the five years to 2024, from the Department for Transport's road casualty statistics. 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, and a rural school on a fast road may have fewer collisions but a worse one. Distances are straight-line from the school's recorded position.

The area around the school

4/10 Deprivation decile

Among the more deprived half of England.

2/10 Child poverty decile

Among the most deprived fifth of England for children in low-income families.

Indices of Deprivation 2019, for the small area the school stands in. 1 means the most deprived tenth of England, 10 the least. The second measure counts only children living in low-income families, which is the one that describes the intake a school is likely to draw on.

What homes cost nearby

Median sale price
£258,750

postcode sector HD9 1 · 256 sales

Typical range
£185,250 to £380,000

middle half of sales

Detached
£435,000
Semi-detached
£262,500
Terraced
£190,000
Flat
£147,500

Homes around this school are close to the England average.

Every residential sale registered in this postcode sector since January 2024, from HM Land Registry. A sector covers roughly 2,500 addresses. England's median over the same period was £293,000.

Who lives there

Adults with a degree
29%

England 33.8%

Adults with no qualifications
19%

England 18.3%

In professional or managerial work
18%

England 13.4%

Households deprived in 2+ ways
10%

England 17.8%

Residents in very good health
52%

England 48.4%

Housing

Owned by the occupier
64%

England 62.7%

Social housing
25%

England 17%

Privately rented
10%

England 19.2%

Detached homes
36%

England 38.2%

Four or more bedrooms
31%

England 22.5%

No car
21%

England 21.9%

Census 2021, for Kirklees 059D and the wider neighbourhood around it. These figures describe the area, not the pupils — children may travel in from much further away, and for selective, faith and independent schools they usually do.

School details

Type
Academy converter
Phase
Primary
Ages
Ages 7–11
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None
Sixth form
No
Nursery
No
Boarding
Day school
Headteacher
Headteacher: Evelyne Barrow
Opened as this establishment
1 April 2020
Register status
Open
Local authority
Kirklees
Ward
Holme Valley South
Constituency
Colne Valley
URN
147799

The unique reference number used in all official school data.

Official DfE record
Open the register entry

The source record for this establishment and URN.

The URN identifies this registered establishment. If a school converts or is replaced, DfE may issue a new URN; this page does not stitch different establishments together by a similar name.

Nearest primary schools

SchoolOfstedExpected standardDistanceCompare
New Mill Infant SchoolAcademy sponsor led Outstanding 2024 — 0.2 mi
Scholes (Holmfirth) Junior & Infant SchoolAcademy sponsor led Requires improvement 2022 — 1 mi
Holmfirth Junior Infant and Nursery SchoolCommunity school Good 2022 74% 1.2 mi
Thurstonland Endowed Voluntary Controlled First SchoolVoluntary controlled school No overall grade — 1.2 mi
Netherthong Primary SchoolCommunity school Good 2023 66% 1.2 mi
Brockholes Church of England Voluntary Controlled Junior and Infant SchoolVoluntary controlled school Outstanding 2023 68% 1.3 mi
Hepworth Junior and Infant SchoolAcademy converter Good 2023 — 1.6 mi
Upperthong Junior and Infant SchoolCommunity school Good 2023 77% 1.8 mi

Schools like this

The 12 state schools in England whose intake most closely matches this one — same phase and sector, and as near as the data allows on size, disadvantage, SEN, English as an additional language and the deprivation of the surrounding area. These are the schools it can fairly be judged against.

This school 64%
Median of its 9 closest peers 53%
Kirklees average 56.4%
England average 60.7%

Percentage meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths. This school is ahead of the schools that teach a comparable intake.

SchoolAreaOfstedExpected standardCompare
Holywell Green Primary SchoolCommunity school Halifax Good 2023 50%
Tibshelf Infant SchoolCommunity school Alfreton Good 2022 —
St Andrew's Church of England Primary SchoolAcademy sponsor led Shaftesbury No overall grade 70%
Cam Woodfield Infant SchoolCommunity school Dursley No overall grade —
Adisham Church of England Primary SchoolAcademy converter Canterbury Report card 2025 89%
Preesall Fleetwood's Charity Church of England Primary SchoolVoluntary aided school Poulton-le-Fylde Good 2023 48%
Penwortham Broad Oak Primary SchoolFoundation school Preston Good 2022 70%
Stanhope Barrington CofE Primary SchoolAcademy converter BISHOP AUCKLAND No overall grade 53%
Dame Tipping Church of England Primary SchoolAcademy converter Romford Good 2024 58%
Caistor CofE and Methodist Primary SchoolVoluntary controlled school Market Rasen Good 2024 47%
Tilstock CofE Primary and NurseryAcademy sponsor led Whitchurch Report card 2026 50%
The Fourfields Church of England School, SuttertonAcademy sponsor led Boston Requires improvement 2022 —

Matching uses only characteristics a school does not choose. It is not a ranking, and a close match on intake does not make two schools interchangeable — sixth form, faith character, admissions rules and simple geography all matter and are not in the calculation.

Evidence ledger

Reference dates and join methods are kept separate because the figures do not all describe the same year or geography.

EvidencePublisherReference dateHow it reaches this page
School identityGet Information About Schools23 August 2026Exact URN 147799; unified importer snapshot
Inspection evidenceOfsted management information31 July 2026Exact URN; inspection 18 June 2024
AttainmentDfE performance tables2024/25Exact URN; phase-specific definitions
Pupil intakeDfE school census2024/25Exact URN; suppressed values remain missing
Funding allocationDfE school funding statistics2025-26 financial yearNo row for this URN in the mainstream-school release; not represented as zero
Roads and transportDfT road casualties, traffic and NaPTANFive-year road window; access-node snapshotCoordinate join within the stated radius
NeighbourhoodONS Census2021LSOA/MSOA containing the school, not pupil homes
DeprivationEnglish Indices of Deprivation2019LSOA containing the school
Home pricesHM Land Registry Price Paid DataSales since January 2024School postcode sector, not a catchment

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