Cookridge Primary School
General Information
- Address: Tinshill Drive, Cookridge, Leeds, LS16 7DH – View on map
- Phone: 01133862500
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Mrs Lynne Hunter
- Age range: 5-11 years
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 73 families put it first for 43 places – 17 for every 10 places. 59% 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 17 · 2024 12 · 2025 13 · 2026 17
- Sixth form: No
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: Does not apply
- Nursery provision: No
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 61
- % eligible for free school meals: 19.4%
- Pupil mix: 5 in 10 (less mixed than the Leeds average)
- English as an additional language: 13% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 10.2% a year (Leeds 14.8%, typical in England 13.9%)
- Where they went: about 20% moved to another school, 80% 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: 4.9%
- Persistently absent pupils: 10.1%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
No dedicated Unit or Resourced Provision
- Pupils on SEN Support: 18.2%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 3.8%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Speech, language and communications needs: 29 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 13 pupils
- Specific learning difficulty: 10 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 2 pupils
- Hearing impairment: 1 pupil
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Speech, language and communications needs: 7 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 2 pupils
- Moderate learning difficulty: 1 pupil
- Social, emotional and mental health: 1 pupil
- Physical disability: 1 pupil
These figures show the makeup of the school.
Educational Attainment
Good 2023 report
Year 6 SATs results
- Met the expected standard in reading, writing & maths: 76% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 20% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: 15 percentage points above the Leeds average (61%)
- Compared with schools with similar pupils: Above (3-year average 73% against an expected 62%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 73%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 82% · Writing 82% · Maths 84% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 80%
- Average test scores: reading 107, maths 107
- Based on: 45 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: 52nd of 214 junior and primary schools in the area
- =43St Francis of Assisi Catholic Primary School, a Voluntary Academy77%
- =43St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Wetherby77%
- #52Cookridge Primary School76%
- =53Brodetsky Primary School75%
- =53Farsley Springbank Primary School75%
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54th of 176 primary schools in Leeds for Ofsted rating
- #52Co-op Academy WoodlandsGood
- #53Cookridge Holy Trinity Church of England Primary SchoolGood
- #54Cookridge Primary SchoolGood
- #55Corpus Christi Catholic Primary SchoolGood
- #56Cross Gates Primary SchoolGood
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £7,918 (2024-25)
45th of 214 primary schools in Leeds for spending per pupil
- #43Bankside Primary School£7,966
- #44Hawksworth Wood Primary School£7,935
- #45Cookridge Primary School£7,918
- #46Stanningley Primary School£7,916
- #47Harewood Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School£7,909
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