Millbridge, A Share Primary Academy

Millbridge, A Share Primary Academy is performing at a strong standard overall, with notable strengths in safeguarding, attendance, and the inclusive support provided for disadvantaged and SEND pupils. The school promotes a positive culture where pupils feel safe and valued, leading to improved attendance rates that are now close to national levels. Leaders are committed to ensuring that all pupils, particularly those who are disadvantaged or have special educational needs, receive the necessary support to succeed in their education. Despite some challenges in particular subjects, the curriculum is well-structured and ambitious, allowing pupils to make good progress across key areas like reading and mathematics.

Strengths

• Strong safeguarding practices ensure pupils feel safe.
• Leaders effectively improve attendance and reduce persistent absence.
• Strong support for disadvantaged and SEND pupils, promoting inclusivity.
• High expectations for pupil behaviour are consistently met.
• The school provides a broad and ambitious curriculum.

Areas for Improvement

• Inconsistent teaching quality in some foundation subjects.
• Missed opportunities for high-quality interactions in early years.

Admissions: local authority offers data from the Department for Education. A school is oversubscribed when at least 5% of the families who put it first were not offered a place, and undersubscribed when everyone who put it first got in but 10% or more of its places were unfilled in the Department's school capacity survey (the latest survey is used for entry years it does not cover). Places: Department for Education, School capacity, from local authorities' annual survey as at 1 May. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024–25); the survey was not run in 2020. Places include sixth form places. Forecasts are the local authority's own for the school's planning area, an area it uses to plan places that is not the school's catchment area. The forecast starts from a head count in 2025; the dashed line is the Department's estimate of places in that area, including those the authority has firm plans for. Planned places are cumulative, and only those with firm plans are counted.

In 2024–25 pupils at Millbridge, A Share Primary Academy attended 92.1% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 23.7% of pupils were persistently absent, missing at least one session in ten (nationally 13.0%).

Sessions missed

Pupils persistently absent

Source: Department for Education, Pupil absence in schools in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). Persistent absence means missing 10% or more of sessions; severe absence means 50% or more. No figures were published for 2019/20.

In 2024–25, 2.8% of pupils at Millbridge, A Share Primary Academy were suspended at least once (nationally 1.1%). One pupil was permanently excluded.

Pupils suspended at least once

Source: Department for Education, Suspensions and permanent exclusions in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). A pupil can be suspended more than once, so suspensions per 100 pupils can be higher than the share of pupils suspended. Very small numbers are hidden by the DfE. Exclusion figures dropped in 2020 and 2021 because of school closures.

In 2025–26 Millbridge, A Share Primary Academy had 19.4 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 25.6% were no longer at the school a year later (nationally 15.7%).

Pupils per teacher

Teachers who left the school within a year

Source: Department for Education, School workforce in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). Pupils per teacher counts full-time-equivalent pupils and teachers. Turnover is the share of a year's teachers (full-time equivalent) who were not at the school the following year, whether they moved to another school or left state-funded teaching. Turnover and sickness figures run one year behind the ratios. Sick leave is the share of teachers who took at least one day in the year, so it swings widely at small schools, where a few teachers can make it 0% or 100%. The national figures are for all state schools of the same type.

In 2025–26, 22.6% of pupils at Millbridge, A Share Primary Academy were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 3.6% had an education, health and care (EHC) plan (nationally 4.1%).

Pupils by main type of need

Source: Department for Education, Special educational needs in England (the 2025–26 school census). SEN support is extra help in school without an EHC plan. National figures are for all state-funded primary schools. Counts are as published, with small numbers not hidden.

In 2024–25 Millbridge, A Share Primary Academy received £7,801 and spent £7,305 for each of its 277 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £672,000 (£2,427 per pupil).

Across all 9 schools of Share Multi Academy Trust, income was £7,742 and spending £7,678 per pupil.

Income per pupil

Spending per pupil

Source: Department for Education, Financial Benchmarking and Insights Tool. Each year is the one the financial year ends in (2024 is 2023–24). Academy figures include a share of the trust's central services, shared out by pupil numbers, and are rounded to the nearest £1,000. Premises costs were defined differently from 2024, so compare them across that gap with care.

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All schools in Liversedge · Kirklees local authority: places and applications

Millbridge, A Share Primary Academy is part of Share Multi Academy Trust, which runs 9 schools. The nearest others:

• Heaton Avenue, A Share Primary Academy Cleckheaton
• Whitcliffe Mount, A Share Academy Cleckheaton
• Thornhill Community Academy, A Share Academy Dewsbury
• Luck Lane, A Share Primary Academy Huddersfield
• Royds Hall, A Share Academy Huddersfield
• Shelley College, A Share Academy Huddersfield
• Woodside Green, A Share Primary Academy Huddersfield
• Todmorden High School, A SHARE Academy Todmorden

What is Millbridge, A Share Primary Academy's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Millbridge, A Share Primary Academy is Expected standard, from an inspection in March 2026.

When was Millbridge, A Share Primary Academy last inspected by Ofsted?

Millbridge, A Share Primary Academy was last inspected in March 2026.

How many pupils does Millbridge, A Share Primary Academy have?

Millbridge, A Share Primary Academy has 279 pupils on roll.

What age range does Millbridge, A Share Primary Academy cover?

Millbridge, A Share Primary Academy for pupils aged 3 to 11.

What are Millbridge, A Share Primary Academy's SATs (KS2) results?

In 2025, 66% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Millbridge, A Share Primary Academy?

Millbridge, A Share Primary Academy is at Vernon Road, Liversedge, West Yorkshire, WF15 6HU.