Healey Junior Infant and Nursery School

Healey Junior Infant and Nursery School is a welcoming, inclusive school that is meeting the expected standard across its main areas of work, and safeguarding standards are met. Pupils behave very well, feel safe and benefit from a calm, purposeful environment. Early reading is a particular strength, leaders have strengthened the curriculum while keeping a sustained focus on English and mathematics, and the school provides a broad range of experiences that build confidence and aspiration. Most pupils achieve well and are prepared for the next stage of education, including disadvantaged pupils and pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND). Attendance is improving and is now broadly in line with national figures overall, although persistent absence remains above national averages. Some wider curriculum subjects are less developed in pupils' depth of knowledge, and teaching does not always check understanding precisely enough, so gaps can sometimes be missed. Early years provision gives children a positive start, but adult interactions do not always extend children's language and thinking as well as they could. Targets for some pupils with SEND are not sufficiently precise. Leaders, governors and trust leaders have an accurate view of the school and are taking purposeful action, and staff value the support and professional development they receive. The school is part of Batley Multi Academy Trust and serves a community with well-above-average deprivation.

Strengths

• Behaviour is a strength, with calm and purposeful lessons and very good conduct around school.
• Early reading teaching is a particular strength, with consistent and effective phonics.
• Pupils are polite, respectful, considerate and ready to learn.
• The curriculum is ambitious and well organised, with clear knowledge and skills sequencing.
• Leaders have strengthened curriculum and teaching while maintaining a sustained focus on English and mathematics.
• Disadvantaged pupils, pupils with SEND and others facing barriers generally make suitable progress.
• Attendance is improving and is now broadly in line with national figures overall.
• Work with families is a particular strength, including support to access wider services.
• Leadership and governance are effective, with accurate self-evaluation and appropriate support and challenge.
• Staff value leader support, workload is considered, and professional development is a priority.
• Personal development is well planned, with a wide range of enrichment and community opportunities.
• Pupils feel safe, supported and valued, and bullying is very rare.
• Early years gets children off to a positive start and prepares them well for Year 1.
• Safeguarding standards are met.

Areas for Improvement

• Persistent absence remains above national averages.
• Pupils do not always show the same depth of knowledge in some wider curriculum subjects as in English and mathematics.
• Teachers occasionally do not check pupils' understanding precisely enough during lessons, so gaps in learning can be missed.
• Targets for some pupils with SEND do not clearly identify the most important next steps.
• Adults in early years do not always interact in ways that extend children's language, thinking and learning.
• Pupils do not always recall all aspects of personal development learning in depth.

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 Healey Junior Infant and Nursery School attended 92.7% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 26.4% 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, 0.0% of pupils at Healey Junior Infant and Nursery School were suspended at least once (nationally 1.1%). No pupils were 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 Healey Junior Infant and Nursery School had 21.0 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 15.2% 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, 9.5% of pupils at Healey Junior Infant and Nursery School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 2.7% 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 Healey Junior Infant and Nursery School received £6,765 and spent £6,543 for each of its 396 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £245,000 (£619 per pupil).

Across all 8 schools of Batley Multi Academy Trust, income was £7,138 and spending £7,078 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 Batley · Kirklees local authority: places and applications

Healey Junior Infant and Nursery School is part of Batley Multi Academy Trust, which runs 8 schools. The nearest others:

• Manorfield Infant and Nursery School Batley
• Purlwell Infant and Nursery School Batley
• Batley Grammar School Batley
• Hyrstmount Junior School Batley
• Upper Batley High School Batley
• Field Lane Junior Infant and Nursery School Batley
• Batley Girls' High School Batley

What is Healey Junior Infant and Nursery School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Healey Junior Infant and Nursery School is Expected standard, from an inspection in October 2026.

When was Healey Junior Infant and Nursery School last inspected by Ofsted?

Healey Junior Infant and Nursery School was last inspected in October 2026.

How many pupils does Healey Junior Infant and Nursery School have?

Healey Junior Infant and Nursery School has 402 pupils on roll.

What age range does Healey Junior Infant and Nursery School cover?

Healey Junior Infant and Nursery School for pupils aged 3 to 11.

What are Healey Junior Infant and Nursery School's SATs (KS2) results?

In 2025, 69% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Healey Junior Infant and Nursery School?

Healey Junior Infant and Nursery School is at Healey Lane, Healey, Batley, West Yorkshire, WF17 8BN.