Co-op Academy Nightingale
General Information
- Address: Stanley Road, Harehills, Leeds, LS9 7AX – View on map
- Phone: 01132359164
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Miss Poppy Lewis
- Age range: 4-11 years
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 30 families put it first for 31 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: None
- Nursery provision: No
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 234
- % eligible for free school meals: 59.2%
- Pupil mix: 8 in 10 (more mixed than the Leeds average)
- English as an additional language: 68% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 25.1% a year (Leeds 14.8%, typical in England 13.9%)
- Where they went: about 29% moved to another school, 71% 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: 9.5%
- Persistently absent pupils: 33.3%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
No dedicated Unit or Resourced Provision
- Pupils on SEN Support: 17.5%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 1.3%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Speech, language and communications needs: 41 pupils
- Moderate learning difficulty: 10 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 7 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 7 pupils
- Vision impairment: 2 pupils
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 4 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 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: 43% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 0% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: 18 percentage points below the Leeds average (61%)
- Compared with schools with similar pupils: Well below (3-year average 39% against an expected 56%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 39%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 60% · Writing 57% · Maths 57% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 53%
- Average test scores: reading 100, maths 100
- Based on: 60 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 191st of 214 junior and primary schools in the area
- =188Hunslet Moor Primary School44%
- =188Park View Primary Academy44%
- =191Co-op Academy Nightingale43%
- =191Grimes Dyke Primary School43%
- =191Holy Rosary and St Anne's Catholic Primary School, a Voluntary Academy43%
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50th of 176 primary schools in Leeds for Ofsted rating
- #48Clapgate Primary SchoolGood
- #49Co-op Academy BrownhillGood
- #50Co-op Academy NightingaleGood
- #51Co-op Academy OakwoodGood
- #52Co-op Academy WoodlandsGood
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £7,447 (2024-25)
76th of 214 primary schools in Leeds for spending per pupil
- #74Co-op Academy Oakwood£7,469
- #75Rosebank Primary School£7,455
- #76Co-op Academy Nightingale£7,447
- #77Greenside Primary School£7,409
- #78Southroyd Primary and Nursery School£7,394
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