Denholme Primary School
General Information
- Address: Minorca Mount, Denholme, Bradford, BD13 4AY – View on map
- Phone: 01274832123
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Ms Sarah Gharbi
- Age range: 3-11 years
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 12 families put it first for 19 places – 6 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 9 · 2024 10 · 2025 9 · 2026 6
- Sixth form: No
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: Does not apply
- Nursery provision: Yes
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 69
- % eligible for free school meals: 34.7%
- Pupil mix: 4 in 10 (less mixed than the Bradford average)
- English as an additional language: 9% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 14.7% a year (Bradford 16%, typical in England 13.9%)
- Where they went: about 19% moved to another school, 81% 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 Bradford: suspensions by reason
- Suspensions for sexual misconduct: 17 (0.3 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.2)
- Permanent exclusions for sexual misconduct: 0
- Suspensions for bullying: 7 (0.1 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.2)
- Suspensions for abuse against sexual orientation or gender identity: 3 (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 Bradford, 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: 7.7%
- Persistently absent pupils: 23.2%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
- Resourced provision for Autism 8 places · 8 pupils at the last count
Places are usually for children with an EHC Plan and are arranged through the council, not the normal school application.
- Pupils on SEN Support: 11.6%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 8.2%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Social, emotional and mental health: 9 pupils
- Speech, language and communications needs: 9 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 4 pupils
- Specific learning difficulty: 1 pupil
- Moderate learning difficulty: 1 pupil
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 12 pupils
- Speech, language and communications needs: 3 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 1 pupil
- Other difficulty or 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: 52% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 0% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: 8 percentage points below the Bradford average (60%)
- Compared with schools with similar pupils: As expected (3-year average 56% against an expected 59%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 56%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 65% · Writing 55% · Maths 61% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 48%
- Average test scores: reading 104, maths 103
- Based on: 31 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 113th of 158 junior and primary schools in the area
- =107Westminster Church of England Primary Academy54%
- #112Lapage Primary School and Nursery53%
- =113Denholme Primary School52%
- =113Southmere Primary Academy52%
- =113St Stephen's CofE Primary School52%
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29th of 127 primary schools in Bradford for Ofsted rating
- #27Crossley Hall AcademyGood
- #28Cullingworth Village Primary SchoolGood
- #29Denholme Primary SchoolGood
- #30Dixons Manningham AcademyGood
- #31East Morton CofE Primary SchoolGood
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £6,962 (2024-25)
58th of 156 primary schools in Bradford for spending per pupil
- #56Steeton Primary School£6,979
- #57Worthinghead Primary School£6,966
- #58Denholme Primary School£6,962
- #59Westbourne Primary School£6,903
- #60St Philip's CofE Primary School£6,848
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