Austhorpe Primary School
General Information
- Address: Austhorpe Lane, Leeds, LS15 8TP – View on map
- Phone: 01132640450
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Miss Amanda Lightfoot
- Age range: 4-11 years
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 25 families put it first for 30 places – 8 for every 10 places. 96% of them were offered a place. No places went to families living outside the council area. Children putting it first, for every 10 places: 2023 13 · 2024 10 · 2025 10 · 2026 8
- Sixth form: No
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: None
- Nursery provision: No
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 14
- % eligible for free school meals: 6.6%
- Pupil mix: 3 in 10 (less mixed than the Leeds average)
- English as an additional language: 7% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 10.1% a year (Leeds 14.8%, typical in England 13.9%)
- Where they went: about 36% moved to another school, 64% left state schools altogether (retirement, other careers, independent schools, abroad)
- Data years: 2022/23 to 2024/25 (average of 3 years, DfE school workforce census)
Teachers who moved school or left state schools in the year after each November, as a share of all the school's teachers. Some turnover is healthy – retirements, promotions, moving house. This is a small staff, so one or two teachers leaving moves the figure a lot.
Behaviour
Awaiting Data
Across Leeds: suspensions by reason
- Suspensions for sexual misconduct: 8 (0.1 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.2)
- Permanent exclusions for sexual misconduct: 0
- Suspensions for bullying: 22 (0.3 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.2)
- Suspensions for abuse against sexual orientation or gender identity: 5 (0.1 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.0)
- Data year: 2024/25 (DfE suspensions and exclusions statistics)
These are figures for all state primary schools in Leeds, not this school's own – the government doesn't publish them school by school. A suspension can have up to three reasons. Most sexual harassment between pupils never leads to a suspension, so these figures show only part of the picture.
Attendance
- Overall absence: 3.2%
- Persistently absent pupils: 4.3%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
No dedicated Unit or Resourced Provision
- Pupils on SEN Support: 7.0%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 1.4%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Social, emotional and mental health: 6 pupils
- Speech, language and communications needs: 4 pupils
- Specific learning difficulty: 3 pupils
- Moderate learning difficulty: 1 pupil
- Vision impairment: 1 pupil
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 2 pupils
- Speech, language and communications needs: 1 pupil
These figures show the makeup of the school.
Educational Attainment
Good 2022 report
Year 6 SATs results
- Met the expected standard in reading, writing & maths: 80% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 10% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: 19 percentage points above the Leeds average (61%)
- Compared with schools with similar pupils: Well below (3-year average 47% against an expected 67%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 47%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 90% · Writing 87% · Maths 90% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 93%
- Average test scores: reading 108, maths 108
- Based on: 30 Year 6 pupils, 2024/25
View the School Context Comparator – how this school's SATs results compare with schools teaching similar pupils.
SATs results over time
Year 6 SATs: joint 32nd of 214 junior and primary schools in the area
- =27Lift Cottingley82%
- =27St Edward's Catholic Primary School, Boston Spa82%
- =32Austhorpe Primary School80%
- =32Highfield Primary School80%
- =32Our Lady of Good Counsel Catholic Primary School80%
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31st of 176 primary schools in Leeds for Ofsted rating
- #29Ashfield Primary SchoolGood
- #30Asquith Primary SchoolGood
- #31Austhorpe Primary SchoolGood
- #32Bankside Primary SchoolGood
- #33Beeston Hill St Luke's Church of England Primary SchoolGood
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £5,779 (2024-25)
200th of 214 primary schools in Leeds for spending per pupil
- #198St Edward's Catholic Primary School, Boston Spa£5,831
- #199St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Otley£5,784
- #200Austhorpe Primary School£5,779
- #201Wigton Moor Primary School£5,748
- #202Ss. Peter and Paul Catholic Primary School, a Voluntary Academy£5,685
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