Birdwell Primary School

About Birdwell Primary School

Birdwell Primary School sits within the Barnsley local authority, where it ranks 4th out of 70 primary schools on the key stage 2 expected standard measure — comfortably inside the top 10% of its LA. The three schools above it are Hoylandswaine Primary School, Thurgoland Church of England Primary School, and Hunningley Primary Academy, all of which score higher on the same metric. Birdwell’s own ranking score of 82 puts it well ahead of the LA average of 63, and its national percentile of 8.4 places it among the stronger performers in the country. The school is a mixed, state primary for children aged 4 to 11, with no religious character and no nursery or sixth form provision. Headteacher Richard Swallow leads a relatively small school of 188 pupils, just shy of its 210 capacity, and the school is noticeably oversubscribed: for the 2025/26 intake, it received 51 applications for 25 places, with 23 of those coming as first preferences.

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