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Ackworth School, Coram House, Pontefract WF7

Ackworth, Pontefract, West Yorkshire WF7 7LT

Ackworth School, Coram House, Pontefract WF7

10 reasons to choose Ackworth School, Coram House

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Ackworth School, Coram House has a Schoolsmith Score® of 80. It is one of the best independent prep schools around Pontefract and one of the 3 best primary schools for 5 miles.

School fundamentals

Ackworth School, Coram House is an independent prep day school for boys and girls (50%/50%) between the ages of 2.5 and 11 years. It is a Quaker school, open to all faiths and none. The school has a non-selective admissions policy. It is the junior division of Ackworth School, an all-through school to age 18. Ackworth School, Coram House fees range from £4,640 (Rec) to £5,251 per term (2025/26). Fees include VAT and lunches.

Average class size

Ackworth School, Coram House usually has one class per year, sometimes two, and an average class size of 13 pupils.

Leavers' destinations

Most Coram House pupils move up to Ackworth School at the end of Year 6.

The Ackworth School, Coram House curriculum

School curriculum is based on the National Curriculum and also includes PSHE, reasoning, French, Spanish, Japanese, Mandarin. Enrichment Weeks. ‘CORAM’ Learning habits enforced in each lesson; Challenge, Outcome, Reflection, Assessment, Mindset. The school offers each pupil between 5 and 10 different extra-curricular academic activities or hobby clubs.

More on the curriculum

There are regular educational trips for all year groups, visiting speakers and residential trips from Year 3. Outdoor Learning and/or Forest School for each year group. Also, the school has a specialist autism resource unit.

Specialist teaching

Specialist teachers for sport, music and languages throughout, and for DT (and Food Tech) from Year 5.

Sport at Ackworth School, Coram House

School offers between 10 and 15 different sports over the course of the year. Representative teams in major sports from Year 3.

The Arts at Ackworth School, Coram House

Art, music and drama are taught as discrete curricular subjects to all pupils. All pupils learn an instrument in class and about one third take extra-curricular instrument lessons from Year 3. Two choirs, orchestra and several instrument ensembles. There are some extra-curricular creative and performing arts clubs.

Wraparound care

Wraparound care from 7.45am to 6.00pm.

Find another school near Ackworth School, Coram House

Independent Prep Schools

Queen Elizabeth Grammar Junior School (8.9 miles); Wakefield Girls’ High School, Junior School (9.2 miles).

State Primary Schools

St Joseph’s Catholic Primary School, Pontefract (3.3 miles); Kirk Smeaton Church of England Primary School (5.9 miles); Cherry Dale Primary School (6.4 miles).

Independent Senior Schools

Ackworth School (0 miles); Queen Elizabeth Grammar School (8.8 miles).

State Senior Schools

St Wilfrid’s Catholic High School & Sixth Form College: A Voluntary Academy (4.2 miles); Crofton Academy (4.9 miles); Wakefield City Academy (8.9 miles).

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