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Status: Open
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OpenSecondaryURN 136283
Heckmondwike Grammar School
Academy converter · Heckmondwike · WF16 0AH
Phase
Secondary
Age range
Ages 11–18
Pupils
1,522
Local authority
Kirklees
Age range
Ages 11–18
05111619
Provision snapshot
Based on official GIAS characteristics
2 / 6
- Nursery
- Sixth formHas a sixth form
- BoardingNo boarders
- Special school
- Independent
- Academy
Local context
How this school sits among open establishments in its area, using official GIAS records. These are counts, not rankings.
Mixed academy converter (secondary), Ages 11–18, in Heckmondwike, Kirklees, 1,522 pupils on roll. Notable characteristics: sixth form, academy, selective admissions. Free school meals: 6%.
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Overview
- School type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- Age range
- 11–18
- Gender
- Mixed
- Status
- Open
- URN
- 136283
Location
- Address
- High Street
- Postcode
- WF16 0AH
- Town
- Heckmondwike
- County
- West Yorkshire
- Local authority
- Kirklees
- District
- Kirklees
- Constituency
- Spen Valley
- Urban/rural
- Urban: Nearer to a major town or city
Size & intake
Pupil numbers and free school meals come from the GIAS school census fields. Capacity fill is calculated when both pupils and capacity are published. Census date: 15 Jan 2026.
- Pupils on roll
- 1,522
- Boys / girls
- 795 / 727
- School capacity
- 1,400
- Capacity fill
- 1,522 / 1,400 (109%)
- Free school meals
- 6%
- FSM pupils
- 64
- Admissions policy
- Selective
- Gender
- Mixed
School characteristics
- Sixth form
- Has a sixth form
- Boarding
- No boarders
- Special classes
- No Special Classes
- Governance
- Academy trust: HECKMONDWIKE GRAMMAR SCHOOL ACADEMY TRUST
- Academy trust
- HECKMONDWIKE GRAMMAR SCHOOL ACADEMY TRUST
Contact
- Headteacher
- Mr Peter Roberts
- Telephone
- 01924402202
Official links
Ofsted
Latest inspection outcomes from Ofsted monthly management information. Report-card grades use the current framework where published; older OEIF grades are shown when that is the latest graded inspection.
Headline
Good
Inspection date
2022-04-05
- Overall effectiveness
- Good
- Quality of education
- Good
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Outstanding
- Personal development
- Good
- Leadership and management
- Good
- Safeguarding effective
- Yes
Performance
Official school-level results from DfE school and college performance tables. Figures are not rankings — suppressed or unavailable values are omitted.
Key stage 4 (2023/24)
- Attainment 8
- 78.5
- Progress 8
- 1.0
- English & maths grade 5+
- 99%
- English & maths grade 4+
- 100%
- EBacc entry
- 36%
- EBacc APS
- 6.9