Sandal Castle VA Community Primary School
Primary schoolSandal Castle VA Community Primary School is a primary school in Wakefield, for pupils aged 4 to 11. It had 608 pupils at the school census in January 2026.
Ofsted
Latest inspections as at 30 September 2026Graded inspection, January 2025: no overall grade
- Inspection
- Graded inspection, 7 January 2025
- Overall effectiveness
- No overall grade (from September 2024)
- Quality of education
- Requires improvement
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Requires improvement
- Personal development
- Requires improvement
- Leadership and management
- Good
Outcomes as Ofsted published them. Report cards (from November 2025) give no overall grade, and grades under different frameworks can’t be compared.
Results
Department for EducationIn 2024/25, 45% of pupils at Sandal Castle VA Community Primary School met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, against 63% in Wakefield and 62% in England.
3% reached the higher standard (8% in England).
End of primary school (KS2)
2024/25| Measure | This school | Wakefield | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths | 45% | 63% | 62% |
| Reached the higher standard | 3% | 9% | 8% |
| Average scaled score in reading | 102 | 105 | 106 |
| Average scaled score in maths | 102 | 104 | 105 |
- Progress scores from KS1 to KS2 were not published for 2024/25, because the KS1 tests that give the starting point were cancelled in 2020 and 2021.
- Results reflect the pupils a school admits as well as its teaching, and a year's results can move a lot in a small school.
Schools nearby
In a straight line- St Thomas à Becket Catholic Secondary School, A Voluntary AcademySecondary. Good (overall), March 2023. Attainment 8 of 49.1 (2025/26, provisional)580 m
- The Castle Nursery SchoolNursery. School remains Good, September 20231.1 km
- Sandal Magna Community AcademyPrimary. Good (overall), November 2022. 67% met the expected standard at KS2 (2024/25)1.2 km
- Kettlethorpe High SchoolSecondary. Report card, June 2026: safeguarding met. Attainment 8 of 48.8 (2025/26, provisional)1.3 km
- Walton Primary AcademyPrimary. School remains Good, May 2022. 71% met the expected standard at KS2 (2024/25)1.7 km
- Methodist Voluntary Controlled Junior, Infant and Nursery School: With Communication ResourcePrimary. School remains Good, July 2023. 65% met the expected standard at KS2 (2024/25)1.8 km
Admissions and catchments are set by councils and schools, which Open Index doesn’t map. Every school in Wakefield
Where these figures come from
- Schools: the school lists of the Department for Education, the Welsh Government and the Scottish Government, with Ofsted’s latest inspections for England.
- Results: the Department for Education’s school performance tables (Open Government Licence).