Cornholme Junior, Infant and Nursery School, Todmorden

Ofsted's report card from its inspection grades Cornholme Junior, Infant and Nursery School on 7 areas: 1 expected standard, 3 needs attention and 3 urgent improvement. Report cards replaced single-word judgements in November 2025, on a five-point scale from exceptional to urgent improvement.

Early years - Expected standard. "With support from external partners, leaders have secured purposeful and successful improvements to the early years provision."

Attendance and behaviour - Needs attention. "In recent years, pupils' attendance rates have been below national averages."

Inclusion - Needs attention. "Leaders identify pupils' needs and barriers to learning and wellbeing effectively."

Personal development and wellbeing - Needs attention. "The school has a coherent personal, social, health and economic education curriculum that includes statutory content and shows how pupils' knowledge should develop from the early years onwards."

Achievement - Urgent improvement. "Since the previous full inspection, leaders have refined their approach to the teaching of reading, writing and mathematics."

Curriculum and teaching - Urgent improvement. "Since the previous full inspection, leaders have improved the systems they use to establish the quality of the curriculum and how it is taught."

Leadership and governance - Urgent improvement. "Since the previous full inspection, leaders have identified and prioritised the right actions to improve the curriculum and teaching."

Safeguarding standards were met.

Ofsted's next steps for the school: "Leaders should support teachers to develop their expertise so that teaching is high quality and assessment strategies are used effectively to help pupils overcome barriers to learning and meet the needs of all pupils"; "Leaders should ensure that pupils develop secure curriculum foundational knowledge and that teachers address gaps in learning effectively so that pupils progress through the curriculum and achieve well"; "Leaders should monitor and evaluate the school's provision and the impact of the strategies that are used to support pupils to learn and make swift changes when necessary to help pupils to do their best"; "Leaders should ensure that attendance rates for all pupils improve and persistent absence reduces so that overall attendance is at least in line with national averages"; "Leaders should ensure that the personal, social, health and economic education curriculum is taught well and with consistency to enable pupils to develop their knowledge effectively"; "Leaders should provide pupils with increased opportunities to broaden their experience of the wider world so that they are prepared for life in modern Britain"; "Leaders should ensure that there is sufficient leadership capacity to make swift and sustained improvements to the school"; "Governors should improve their strategic oversight of the school to ensure that teaching improves rapidly and pupils achieve well".

In 2025, 35% of Year 6 pupils at Cornholme Junior, Infant and Nursery School reached the expected standard in reading and 35% in maths. At the average state primary the figures were 75% and 75% in Calderdale and 77% and 75% across England.

Results fell from 44% in reading and 67% in maths in 2024.

With small year groups, a few pupils can move these figures by several points.

For September 2026 entry, 6 families put Cornholme Junior, Infant and Nursery School as their first choice and 11 named it as one of their preferences, for 6 places offered. That is one first choice for every place. Every family who put it first was offered a place there for 2026 entry.

The nearest other state primary schools to Cornholme Junior, Infant and Nursery School are Cornholme Junior, Infant and Nursery School (under 0.1 miles); Sharneyford Primary School (1.8 miles, Good, 60% reading, 50% maths); Castle Hill Primary School (1.9 miles, Good, 73% reading, 70% maths); and Ferney Lee Primary School (2.1 miles, Good, 71% reading, 71% maths).

Each of them had higher 2025 results than Cornholme Junior, Infant and Nursery School.

13 parents answered Ofsted's Parent View survey about Cornholme Junior, Infant and Nursery School (as of April 2026): 69% would recommend the school, 69% say their child is happy there and 0% of those with a view say bullying is dealt with well.

The strongest agreement was that their child feels safe (77%); the weakest, that the school deals with bullying well (among parents with a view) (0%).

37.1% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, well above the average state school (25%), and 0% speak English as an additional language, against 18.8% on average, according to the 2026 school census.

The largest ethnic groups are White British (93%) and Mixed (7%).

In 2026, 22 pupils (21%) received SEN support and 9 (8.6%) had an education, health and care plan, against 16.2% and 4.6% at the average state school. The most common need among them is speech, language and communication needs.

The nearest railway station is Todmorden Rail Station, about 2.4 miles away in a straight line.

7 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Cornholme School (at), 60 metres away.

Measured by the 2025 English Indices of Deprivation, the neighbourhood Cornholme Junior, Infant and Nursery School stands in is among the 20% most deprived neighbourhoods in England. This describes where the school is, not where its pupils live.

In August 2026, police recorded 14 crimes within a mile of the school, most often violence and sexual offences, vehicle crime and anti-social behaviour. That is well below the typical figure around schools in Calderdale (102).

In 2024/25, Cornholme Junior, Infant and Nursery School issued 21 suspensions, 16.7 for every 100 pupils (the average state school: 6.3), and 1 permanent exclusion.