Clough Head Junior and Infant School
General Information
- Address: Bolster Moor Road, Golcar, Huddersfield, HD7 4NW – View on map
- Phone: 01484222217
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Mrs Claire Kenworthy
- Age range: 4-11 years
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 13 families put it first for 12 places – 11 for every 10 places. 92% of them were offered a place. No places went to families living outside the council area. Children putting it first, for every 10 places: 2023 8 · 2024 8 · 2025 10 · 2026 11
- Sixth form: No
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: Does not apply
- Nursery provision: No
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 9
- % eligible for free school meals: 11.7%
- Pupil mix: 1 in 10 (less mixed than the Kirklees average)
- English as an additional language: 0% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 26.1% a year (Kirklees 13.8%, typical in England 13.9%)
- Where they went: about 56% moved to another school, 44% left state schools altogether (retirement, other careers, independent schools, abroad)
- Data years: 2022/23 to 2024/25 (average of 3 years, DfE school workforce census)
Teachers who moved school or left state schools in the year after each November, as a share of all the school's teachers. Some turnover is healthy – retirements, promotions, moving house. This is a small staff, so one or two teachers leaving moves the figure a lot.
Behaviour
Awaiting Data
Across Kirklees: suspensions by reason
- Suspensions for sexual misconduct: 8 (0.2 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.2)
- Permanent exclusions for sexual misconduct: 0
- Suspensions for bullying: 13 (0.4 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.2)
- Suspensions for abuse against sexual orientation or gender identity: 2 (0.1 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.0)
- Data year: 2024/25 (DfE suspensions and exclusions statistics)
These are figures for all state primary schools in Kirklees, not this school's own – the government doesn't publish them school by school. A suspension can have up to three reasons. Most sexual harassment between pupils never leads to a suspension, so these figures show only part of the picture.
Attendance
- Overall absence: 5.0%
- Persistently absent pupils: 6.0%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
No dedicated Unit or Resourced Provision
- Pupils on SEN Support: 15.6%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 6.5%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Speech, language and communications needs: 4 pupils
- Moderate learning difficulty: 3 pupils
- Other difficulty or disability: 2 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 1 pupil
- Hearing impairment: 1 pupil
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Social, emotional and mental health: 2 pupils
- Speech, language and communications needs: 2 pupils
- Profound and multiple learning difficulty: 1 pupil
These figures show the makeup of the school.
Educational Attainment
Good 2020 report
Year 6 SATs results
- Met the expected standard in reading, writing & maths: 64% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 9% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: 3 percentage points above the Kirklees average (61%)
- Compared with schools with similar pupils: Well below (3-year average 47% against an expected 67%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 47%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 82% · Writing 64% · Maths 100% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 73%
- Average test scores: reading 107, maths 107
- Based on: 11 Year 6 pupils, 2024/25
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SATs results over time
Year 6 SATs: joint 47th of 98 junior and primary schools in the area
- =42Mount Pleasant Primary School65%
- =47Carlinghow Academy64%
- =47Clough Head Junior and Infant School64%
- =47Gomersal Primary School64%
- =47Hartshead Junior and Infant School64%
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10th of 85 primary schools in Kirklees for Ofsted rating
- #8Carlinghow AcademyGood
- #9Carlton Junior and Infant SchoolGood
- #10Clough Head Junior and Infant SchoolGood
- #11Crossley Fields Junior and Infant SchoolGood
- #12Denby Dale First and Nursery SchoolGood
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £9,424 (2024-25)
9th of 106 primary schools in Kirklees for spending per pupil
- #7Denby Dale First and Nursery School£9,912
- #8Denby Church of England Voluntary Aided First School£9,855
- #9Clough Head Junior and Infant School£9,424
- #10Oak CofE Primary School£9,342
- #11Farnley Tyas Church of England Voluntary Controlled First School£9,196
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