Bankside Primary School
General Information
- Address: Shepherds Lane, Leeds, LS8 5AW – View on map
- Phone: 01133368383
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Ms Victoria Broughton
- Age range: 2-11 years
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 67 families put it first for 70 places – 10 for every 10 places. Every one of them was offered a place. No places went to families living outside the council area. Children putting it first, for every 10 places: 2023 10 · 2024 10 · 2025 10 · 2026 10
- Sixth form: No
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: Does not apply
- Nursery provision: Yes
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 253
- % eligible for free school meals: 43.0%
- Pupil mix: 8 in 10 (more mixed than the Leeds average)
- English as an additional language: 75% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 16.3% a year (Leeds 14.8%, typical in England 13.9%)
- Where they went: about 46% moved to another school, 54% 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.
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: 8.6%
- Persistently absent pupils: 35.0%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
No dedicated Unit or Resourced Provision
- Pupils on SEN Support: 47.5%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 0.4%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Speech, language and communications needs: 172 pupils
- Moderate learning difficulty: 104 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 25 pupils
- Specific learning difficulty: 5 pupils
- Physical disability: 4 pupils
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Speech, language and communications needs: 2 pupils
- Hearing impairment: 1 pupil
These figures show the makeup of the school.
Educational Attainment
Good 2020 report
Year 6 SATs results
- Met the expected standard in reading, writing & maths: 31% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 0% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: 30 percentage points below the Leeds average (61%)
- Compared with schools with similar pupils: Well below (3-year average 27% against an expected 60%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 27%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 46% · Writing 36% · Maths 50% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 50%
- Average test scores: reading 100, maths 99
- Based on: 84 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 210th of 214 junior and primary schools in the area
- =207Lady Elizabeth Hastings' CofE VA Primary School, Thorp Arch33%
- #209Richmond Hill Academy32%
- =210Bankside Primary School31%
- =210Queensway Primary School31%
- =210Wykebeck Primary School31%
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32nd of 176 primary schools in Leeds for Ofsted rating
- #30Asquith Primary SchoolGood
- #31Austhorpe Primary SchoolGood
- #32Bankside Primary SchoolGood
- #33Beeston Hill St Luke's Church of England Primary SchoolGood
- #34Beeston Primary SchoolGood
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £7,966 (2024-25)
43rd of 214 primary schools in Leeds for spending per pupil
- #41Shakespeare Primary School£7,978
- #42Primrose Lane Primary School£7,975
- #43Bankside Primary School£7,966
- #44Hawksworth Wood Primary School£7,935
- #45Cookridge Primary School£7,918
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