Community school · Primary
Castleford · WF10 3DB · Wakefield
Ages 2–11
Status: Open
0.3 miles away
OpenPrimaryURN 141144
Oyster Park Primary Academy
Academy sponsor led · Castleford · WF10 3SN
Phase
Primary
Age range
Ages 3–11
Pupils
349
Local authority
Wakefield
Age range
Ages 3–11
05111619
Provision snapshot
Based on official GIAS characteristics
2 / 6
- NurseryHas Nursery Classes
- Sixth formDoes not have 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 sponsor led (primary), Ages 3–11, in Castleford, Wakefield, 349 pupils on roll. Notable characteristics: nursery, academy. Free school meals: 50.9%.
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Overview
- School type
- Academy sponsor led
- Phase
- Primary
- Age range
- 3–11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Status
- Open
- URN
- 141144
Location
- Address
- Watling Road, Ferry Fryston, Oyster Park Primary Academy
- Postcode
- WF10 3SN
- Town
- Castleford
- County
- West Yorkshire
- Local authority
- Wakefield
- District
- Wakefield
- Constituency
- Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley
- 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
- 349
- Boys / girls
- 170 / 179
- School capacity
- 420
- Capacity fill
- 349 / 420 (83%)
- Free school meals
- 50.9%
- FSM pupils
- 161
- Gender
- Mixed
School characteristics
- Nursery provision
- Has Nursery Classes
- Sixth form
- Does not have a sixth form
- Boarding
- No boarders
- Governance
- Academy trust: CASTLEFORD ACADEMY TRUST
- Academy trust
- CASTLEFORD ACADEMY TRUST
- Sponsor
- Castleford Academy
Contact
- Headteacher
- Mrs Jodie Chapman-Kemp
- Telephone
- 01977515994
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
Needs attention
Inspection date
2026-02-24
- Achievement
- Needs attention
- Curriculum and teaching
- Needs attention
- Inclusion
- Expected standard
- Attendance and behaviour
- Needs attention
- Personal development and wellbeing
- Strong standard
- Leadership and governance
- Expected standard
- Safeguarding standards
- Met
Performance
Official school-level results from DfE school and college performance tables. Figures are not rankings — suppressed or unavailable values are omitted.
Key stage 2 (2023/24)
- Expected standard (RWM)
- 52%
- Higher standard (RWM)
- 2%
- Avg scaled score — reading
- 101.0
- Avg scaled score — maths
- 103.0
- Avg scaled score — GPS
- 104.0