Orchard Head Junior and Infant and Nursery School Overview

Orchard Head Junior and Infant and Nursery School is a primary school located in Pontefract and reports to the local authority of Wakefield.

Orchard Head Junior and Infant and Nursery School is a mixed gender school that caters to students aged from 3 to 11 years old and it has no religious affiliations

Currently the school is oversubscribed as it has an official capacity of 315 students but currently enrols 340 pupils across all class years. This can generally mean that all applications to this school stand a much weaker chance of being accepted due to already being over capacity.

Orchard Head Junior and Infant and Nursery School students range across many different ethnicities with White British being the predominant ethnicity, accounting for 92.4% of all current students. English as a 1st language accounts for 5.6% of students at the school.

19.5% of all students at the school qualify for free school meals and 0% of Orchard Head Junior and Infant and Nursery School pupils are classed as SEN students who have a range of special educational needs.

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