St Wilfrid's Catholic High School & Sixth Form College: A Voluntary Academy
Academy converter secondary school in Pontefract (Wakefield).
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iSchool location from Get Information about Schools. Nearby schools are coloured by phase. Open Map+ for a full-screen map with neighbourhood deprivation (England only).Press Map+ on the map for a full-screen view with neighbourhood deprivation layers.
Nearby schools
nearest first18 schools within 2 miles. The nearest is Featherstone All Saints CofE Academy, 0.2 miles away.
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| Phase | Ofsted | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Featherstone All Saints CofE AcademyAcademy converter | 0.2 mi | Primary | 227 | Ungraded inspection, Mar 2025Last graded Good (Jun 2016, previous school) |
| Featherstone North Featherstone Junior and Infant SchoolCommunity | 0.9 mi | Primary | 338 | Ungraded inspection, Nov 2023Last graded Good (Mar 2014) |
| Featherstone Purston St Thomas Church of England Voluntary Controlled Junior SchoolVoluntary controlled | 1.5 mi | Primary | 314 | Requires improvement, 2024 |
| Smawthorne Henry Moore AcademyAcademy converter | 1.5 mi | Primary | 473 | Good, 2020This inspection was of the previous school, before it became an academy. |
| New College PontefractAcademy 16-19 converter | 1.5 mi | 16 plus | - | - |
| Ackton Pastures Primary AcademyAcademy converter | 1.5 mi | Primary | 356 | Good, 2023 |
| Ark Halfpenny Lane Primary SchoolAcademy converter | 1.6 mi | Primary | 434 | No overall grade, 2025Outstanding in all four key judgements; early years provision Outstanding |
| Featherstone Purston Infant SchoolCommunity | 1.6 mi | Primary | 203 | Good, 2023 |
| The Featherstone AcademyAcademy sponsor led | 1.6 mi | Secondary | 556 | Ungraded inspection, Mar 2022Last graded Good (Feb 2017) |
| Half Acres Primary AcademyAcademy converter | 1.7 mi | Primary | 424 | No overall grade, 2025Outstanding in 1 key judgement, Good in 3; early years provision Good |
| Featherstone Girnhill Infant SchoolAcademy converter | 1.7 mi | Primary | 103 | Ungraded inspection, May 2024Last graded Good (May 2019) |
| Normanton Common Primary AcademyAcademy converter | 1.8 mi | Primary | 334 | Ungraded inspection, Jul 2024Last graded Good (Mar 2019) |
| St Joseph's Catholic Primary School PontefractAcademy converter | 1.9 mi | Primary | 222 | Good, 2024 |
| Glasshoughton Infant AcademyAcademy converter | 1.9 mi | Primary | 222 | Good, 2023 |
| Ark The King's SchoolAcademy converter | 1.9 mi | Secondary | 1,041 | Good, 2022 |
| St. John the Baptist Catholic Primary SchoolAcademy converter | 1.9 mi | Primary | 221 | Ungraded inspection, Nov 2023Last graded Good (May 2014) |
| Ark Larks Hill Primary SchoolAcademy converter | 1.9 mi | Primary | 203 | No overall grade, 2025Outstanding in all four key judgements; early years provision Outstanding |
| Castleford Park Junior AcademyAcademy converter | 2.0 mi | Primary | 412 | Ungraded inspection, Apr 2024Last graded Good (Feb 2019) |
Straight-line distance from each school's register location, in miles: schools within 2 miles, widened to 5 or 10 miles where fewer than 10 schools are that close. Register details: Get Information about Schools, DfE (extract of 24 Oct 2026). Ofsted: the latest outcome in our data (Ofsted management information as at 30 Sep 2026, so a newer report may exist). Where no Ofsted outcome is shown we do not hold one; many independent schools are inspected by the Independent Schools Inspectorate instead. Phase colours match the map. Governance Register does not rank schools.
The neighbourhood
iEnglish Indices of Deprivation 2025 (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government) for the small area around the school (LSOA).This school's neighbourhood is among the 30% most deprived in England (Index of Multiple Deprivation 2025, decile 3 of 10).
Each number is a decile from 1 to 10: 1 = the most deprived 10% of neighbourhoods in England, 10 = the least deprived 10%.
- Children in income-deprived families
- 85
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