Sandal Castle VA Community Primary School
State-Funded School
Academic PerformanceNo overall grade
About the School
Sandal Castle VA Community Primary School is a state-funded primary for pupils aged 4–11, located in Wakefield, Yorkshire and The Humber.
It currently serves 608 pupils.
Ofsted Rating
Yes
2025
Subject Areas
Leadership &management
Good
Quality ofeducation
Requires improvement
Personaldevelopment
Requires improvement
Behaviour &attitudes
Requires improvement
Early yearsprovision
Requires improvement
Academic Performance
Below average
Ranked against primary schools in England · 2023-24
- Reading, writing & maths
- 52%
- Higher standard
- 1%
- Reading score
- 104
- Maths score
- 104
Ethnicity
Pupils
Total Pupils
54%Boys
46%GirlsPupil Characteristics
DfE school census, January 2026.
Key Information
- Phase
- Primary
- Age range
- 4 – 11
- Deprivation band
- Deprived
- Total pupils
- 608
- IDACI quintile
- 4 (Less deprived)
Inspection history
2 graded inspections published by Ofsted. Ungraded and monitoring visits are not shown.
| Report published | Overall | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 Feb 2025 | Good | Requires improvement | Requires improvement | Requires improvement | Not judged |
| 17 Jul 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.
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