Featherstone Purston St Thomas Church of England Voluntary Controlled Junior School
George Street, Pontefract, WF7 5BG
314 pupils · 77% of 410 capacity
- Phase
- Primary
- Type
- Voluntary controlled school
- Ages
- 7–11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Religious character
- Church of England
- Local authority
- Wakefield
- Free school meals
- 46.5%
Ofsted
Requires improvement (2024) — Rated under the pre-September 2024 inspection system
This school has not yet been inspected under the report-card system introduced in November 2025. When it is, this section will show a grade for each area — Ofsted says the new grades do not map onto the old ones, so we do not predict them.
Inspected 5 March 2024, published 17 April 2024. Read the full Ofsted report
England has three coexisting inspection systems — how we translate them into one signal.
Exam results
| Measure | 2024/25 |
|---|---|
| Reaching the expected standard in reading, writing & maths | 46% |
| Reaching the higher standard | 1% |
“Not published (small cohort)” means the DfE suppressed the figure to protect small cohorts — it is not a zero.
Nearby alternatives
- Featherstone Purston Infant School 0.4 km · Good (2023) · previous system
- Featherstone Girnhill Infant School 0.4 km · Good — confirmed 2024 · previous system
- Featherstone North Featherstone Junior and Infant School 1.3 km · Good — confirmed 2023 · previous system
- Featherstone All Saints CofE Academy 2.1 km · Standards maintained (2025)
- Larks Hill Junior and Infant School 2.7 km · No overall grade (2025)
- Halfpenny Lane Junior Infant and Nursery School 2.7 km · No overall grade (2025)
Straight-line distance — not travel time, and not a catchment. Same phase, open schools only.
Data from DfE and Ofsted open data (OGL v3) — sources. School record updated 10 July 2026. Report incorrect data.