Hightown Junior Infant & Nursery School, Liversedge

Ofsted's report card from its 14 April 2026 inspection grades Hightown Junior Infant & Nursery School on 7 areas: 1 strong standard, 5 expected standard and 1 needs attention. Report cards replaced single-word judgements in November 2025, on a five-point scale from exceptional to urgent improvement.

Personal development and wellbeing - Strong standard. "Leaders have designed a coherent and carefully considered programme of personal development and wellbeing."

Attendance and behaviour - Expected standard. "Leaders are determined that all pupils will attend school regularly."

Curriculum and teaching - Expected standard. "Leaders have an accurate understanding of the quality of the curriculum and teaching."

Early years - Expected standard. "Children are happy, safe and eager to learn in the early years."

Inclusion - Expected standard. "Pupils are welcomed and included, whatever their needs or circumstances."

Leadership and governance - Expected standard. "Leaders model high expectations and professionalism."

Achievement - Needs attention. "Over time, some pupils do not achieve as well as they should."

Safeguarding standards were met.

Ofsted's next steps for the school: "Leaders should ensure that gaps in pupils' foundational knowledge are identified and addressed quickly and consistently. This includes further strengthening the use of assessment to check what pupils know and can do, so that teaching addresses misconceptions promptly. Leaders should ensure that this work supports all pupils, including disadvantaged pupils, to build securely on prior learning and achieve as well as possible"; "Leaders should continue to refine the early years curriculum so that it is implemented with increasing precision. They should ensure that what children learn is carefully focused on building children's knowledge and skills securely over time".

In 2025, 71% of Year 6 pupils at Hightown Junior Infant & Nursery School reached the expected standard in reading and 77% in maths. At the average state primary the figures were 75% and 75% in Kirklees and 77% and 75% across England.

Results rose from 60% in reading and 63% in maths in 2024.

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

For September 2026 entry, 16 families put Hightown Junior Infant & Nursery School as their first choice and 54 named it as one of their preferences, for 23 places offered. It had fewer first-choice applications than places. Every family who put it first was offered a place there for 2026 entry.

The nearest other state primary schools to Hightown Junior Infant & Nursery School are Hightown Primary School (under 0.1 miles); High Bank Junior Infant and Nursery School (0.5 miles, Good, 60% reading, 40% maths); Hartshead Junior and Infant School (0.8 miles, Good, 64% reading, 64% maths); and Heaton Avenue, A Share Primary Academy (0.8 miles, Requires improvement, 59% reading, 59% maths).

Hightown Junior Infant & Nursery School's 2025 results were higher than all 3 of them.

7.4% speak English as an additional language, against 18.8% on average, according to the 2026 school census.

The largest ethnic groups are White British (84%) and Asian (7%).

In 2026, 55 pupils (27.2%) received SEN support and 13 (6.4%) 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 social, emotional and mental health needs.

The nearest railway station is Brighouse Rail Station, about 2.5 miles away in a straight line.

9 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Hightown School (opposite), 40 metres away.

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

Hightown Junior Infant & Nursery School recorded no suspensions or permanent exclusions in 2024/25.