Castleford Wheldon Infant School and Nursery

State-Funded School

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Yorkshire and The HumberRegion

WakefieldLocal Authority

Pontefract, Castleford and KnottingleyConstituency

WF10 1HFPostcode

5.5

Academic Performance

Ofsted

About the School

Castleford Wheldon Infant School and Nursery is a state-funded primary for pupils aged 3–7, located in Wakefield, Yorkshire and The Humber.

The school is rated Good by Ofsted. It currently serves 169 pupils.

Ofsted Rating

Safeguarding effective

Rating last maintained

2025

Subject Areas

Leadership &management

Good

Early yearsprovision

Good

Ethnicity

White

92%

Asian

<1%

Black

Mixed

Pupils

169

Total Pupils

53%Boys

47%Girls

Pupil Characteristics

Free school meals

15%

England average

27%

First language not English

England average

22%

Young carers

England average

0%25%50%75%100%

DfE school census, January 2026.

Key Information

Phase: Primary
Age range: 3 – 7
Deprivation band: Deprived
Total pupils: 169
IDACI quintile: 4 (Less deprived)

Inspection history

Ofsted has published one graded inspection for this school. The most recent ungraded inspection is shown below.

Standards maintained

Ungraded inspection on 14 May 2025. An ungraded inspection checks whether the existing grade still holds; it does not award a new one.

Read the inspection letter on Ofsted

Report published					Overall
8 May 2015	Good	Not reported in this inspection	Not reported in this inspection	Not reported in this inspection	Good

A grey dot means Ofsted did not report that judgement in the inspection of the day — the sub-judgements shown here were introduced with the 2019 framework.

Ofsted data as at 31 December 2024. A school may have been inspected since, or had an ungraded visit that does not change its grade — check Ofsted’s own record.