Methodist Voluntary Controlled Junior, Infant and Nursery School: With Communication Resource, Wakefield
Data last updated 11 Sept 2026
Location
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Key Information
DfE GIASOfsted Rating
Ofsted · 3 years agoOverall
Ofsted Insights
What This School Does Well
This school excels at creating a safe, supportive environment where all children feel valued and achieve well. Teachers use good and increasingly outstanding practice to help pupils make solid progress, with particularly strong support for children with special educational needs and those learning English as an additional language. Parents will appreciate the school's innovative communication with families, including sharing Early Years achievements via email.
Key Strengths
- Outstanding behaviour and safety - pupils are courteous, polite and feel safe
- Effective support for pupils with special educational needs and communication disorders who make good progress
- Strong phonics teaching that raised Year 2 attainment to national average after previous underperformance
- Good progress for pupils eligible for pupil premium through sharply-focused support
- Effective monitoring and performance management by senior leaders driving improvement
Areas for Improvement
- More-able pupils not always challenged to reach the highest levels when work is set at the same pace as others
- Pupils not given enough time to respond to teachers' marking and improve their work
- Teaching assistants' effectiveness not formally assessed to identify training needs and impact
Safeguarding
Safeguarding arrangements were scrutinised by inspectors and found to be in order with appropriate records maintained.
Methodist Voluntary Controlled Junior and Infant School with Communication Resource is a good school where all pupils achieve expected standards with many exceeding them through good and increasingly outstanding teaching. The school has a specially resourced provision for 10 pupils with speech, language, communication disorders, and autism.
At a Glance
19.4%
Free School Meals
No
Boarding
Yes
Nursery
No
Sixth Form
SLCN - Speech, language and Communication, ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder
SEN Provision
No
Special Measures
Primary Performance (KS2)
Academic year 2025/26KS2 Results (% meeting expected standard)
Reading has improved from 58% to 85%. Maths has improved from 55% to 76%. Writing has improved from 61% to 74%.
Class Sizes
29.6
Avg class size
28.3
Infant (KS1)
32.5
KS2
8
Total classes
4 classes with more than 30 pupils
2024/25 academic year
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Capacity & Demand
School Occupancy
98%
Near capacity
245 pupils
250 capacity
5 spare places available
Area Demand Pressure - Wakefield
Based on MHCLG housing supply data for Wakefield
Admissions Demand - Wakefield
Places available
4,426
Applications
3,755
Got 1st preference
91.3%
Got preferred school
98.2%
Primary admissions across Wakefield (2025/26)
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SEN Provision
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Pupil Demographics
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School Funding
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Pupil Absence2024/25
5.42553%
Overall absence
14.72081%
Persistent absence
197
Enrolments
Absence trend
Source: DfE pupil absence statistics. Persistent absence = pupils missing 10%+ sessions.
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