Northfield Primary School: With Communication Resource
Northfield Lane, South Kirkby, Pontefract, WF9 3LY
This school is closed (it closed in November 2023).
It was replaced by Northfield Primary School. That page has the school's current information.
- Phase
- Primary
- School type
- Community school
- Ages
- 3 to 11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Headteacher
- Mr Lee Bell
- Nursery provision
- Has Nursery Classes
- SEN provision
- SLCN - Speech, language and Communication, ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder, PD - Physical Disability
- Constituency
- Hemsworth
- Setting
- (England/Wales) Urban city and town
- Capacity
- 315
- Pupils on roll
- 368
- URN
- 130859
- Local authority
- Wakefield
About this school
Northfield Primary School: With Communication Resource was a community primary school in Pontefract. It taught children aged 3 to 11 and had 368 pupils on roll.
Ofsted did not inspect it under the current framework.
Ofsted judgement
Northfield Primary School: With Communication Resource has not been inspected by Ofsted yet. It opened in its current form in September 1996, and new or converted schools usually wait a few years for their first inspection.
Exam results
Key stage 2 (end of primary school)
| Measure | 2022/23 | 2023/24 |
|---|---|---|
| Pupils at the end of key stage 2 | 49 | 48 |
| Met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths | 69% | 81% |
| Reached the higher standard in reading, writing and maths | 2% | 8% |
| Expected standard in reading | 71% | 88% |
| Expected standard in maths | 82% | 81% |
| Expected standard in grammar, punctuation and spelling | 69% | 85% |
| Average scaled score in reading | 105.0 | 107.0 |
| Average scaled score in maths | 105.0 | 106.0 |
| Reading progress | -1.20 | - |
| Writing progress | -0.90 | - |
| Maths progress | +0.80 | - |
Progress measures ended nationally after the 2022/23 school year, when the key stage 1 assessments they were based on were stopped. Blank progress figures in later years are not missing school data.
Trends over time
How Northfield Primary School: With Communication Resource has moved over recent years against the local and national picture. Every figure is shown in the table beneath its chart.
| Year | This school | Wakefield average | England average |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022/23 | 69% | 59.3% | 57.9% |
| 2023/24 | 81% | 62.8% | 58.8% |
| 2024/25 | — | 63.9% | 60.3% |
Department for Education KS2 performance data, published school results.
How Northfield Primary School: With Communication Resource compares
Its absence rate was lower than 40% of England schools in 2022/23.
| School | KS2 RWM (2024/25) | Absence | FSM (6 years) | Pupils | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| This school | — | 6.6% | 24.8% | 368 | — |
| Northfield Primary School | 83% | 3.7% | 25.8% | 348 | 0.0 miles |
| South Kirkby Academy | 32% | 6.3% | 49% | 186 | 0.7 miles |
| Moorthorpe Primary School With Inclusion Resource | 35% | 5.7% | 45.5% | 216 | 0.7 miles |
| St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Moorthorpe | 55% | 5.5% | 32.3% | 204 | 0.7 miles |
| South Kirkby Common Road Infant and Nursery School | — | 7.5% | 37.9% | 208 | 0.7 miles |
Results reflect each school's cohort as much as its teaching, and free school meals share is context, not a judgement. Small gaps between neighbouring schools are rarely meaningful on their own.
School context
From the 2022/23 school census and absence figures.
- Free school meals (last 6 years)
- 24.8%
- English as an additional language
- 2.4%
- Overall absence
- 6.6%
- Persistent absence
- 21%
Location
Nearby schools
-
Northfield Primary School0.0 miles
Primary · Pontefract
-
South Kirkby Academy0.7 miles
Primary · Pontefract
-
Moorthorpe Primary School With Inclusion Resource0.7 miles
Primary · Pontefract
-
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Moorthorpe0.7 miles
Primary · Pontefract
-
South Kirkby Common Road Infant and Nursery School0.7 miles
Primary · Pontefract
Other schools in Pontefract
- Ackworth Howard Church of England Voluntary Controlled Junior and Infant School Primary
- Ackworth Mill Dam School Primary
- Ash Grove Primary Academy Primary
- Badsworth Church of England Voluntary Controlled Junior and Infant School Primary
- Carleton Park Junior and Infant School Primary
- Cherry Tree Academy Primary
- Darrington Church of England Primary School Primary
- De Lacy Primary School Primary
- Featherstone All Saints CofE Academy Primary
- Featherstone Girnhill Infant School Primary
- Featherstone North Featherstone Junior and Infant School Primary
- Featherstone Purston Infant School Primary
Common questions
- What year groups does Northfield Primary School: With Communication Resource teach?
- Northfield Primary School: With Communication Resource taught children aged 3 to 11. It was a primary school in Pontefract.
- Has Northfield Primary School: With Communication Resource been inspected?
- Ofsted has not inspected Northfield Primary School: With Communication Resource under its current framework, so no current judgement is shown. That is common for newer schools and is not a mark against a school.
- How big is Northfield Primary School: With Communication Resource?
- Northfield Primary School: With Communication Resource had 368 pupils on roll, teaching children aged 3 to 11.
- How have Northfield Primary School: With Communication Resource's results changed over recent years?
- Its share of pupils reaching the expected standard in reading, writing and maths was 69% in 2022/23 and 81% in 2023/24. The year-by-year figures, alongside local and national averages, are charted in the trends section on this page.
- What are Northfield Primary School: With Communication Resource's exam results?
- Where the Department for Education has published them, Northfield Primary School: With Communication Resource's key stage results are shown in the results section on this page, with the last three years so you can see the trend rather than a single year.
School details come from the Department for Education's Get Information About Schools register. Inspection outcomes come from Ofsted, and exam results from the Department for Education's school performance service. This page was last updated on 30 November 2023.