Harehills Primary School
General Information
- Address: Darfield Road, Harehills, Leeds, LS8 5DQ – View on map
- Phone: 01132350539
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Mrs Judith Wood
- Age range: 3-11 years
- Sixth form: No
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: Does not apply
- Nursery provision: Yes
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 287
- % eligible for free school meals: 46.1%
- Pupil mix: 7 in 10 (more mixed than the Leeds average)
- English as an additional language: 76% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 7.7% a year (Leeds 14.8%, typical in England 13.9%) Low turnover
- Where they went: about 13% moved to another school, 87% 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. "Low turnover" means it's among the quarter of similar schools in England where teachers are most likely to stay.
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: 8.0%
- Persistently absent pupils: 30.7%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
No dedicated Unit or Resourced Provision
- Pupils on SEN Support: 25.6%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 1.3%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Speech, language and communications needs: 102 pupils
- Moderate learning difficulty: 28 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 22 pupils
- Specific learning difficulty: 5 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 5 pupils
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 6 pupils
- Severe learning difficulty: 1 pupil
- Speech, language and communications needs: 1 pupil
- Other difficulty or disability: 1 pupil
These figures show the makeup of the school.
Educational Attainment
No overall grade given 2025 report
Year 6 SATs results
- Met the expected standard in reading, writing & maths: 52% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 4% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: 9 percentage points below the Leeds average (61%)
- Compared with schools with similar pupils: Below (3-year average 48% against an expected 58%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 48%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 61% · Writing 58% · Maths 60% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 61%
- Average test scores: reading 102, maths 102
- Based on: 85 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 166th of 214 junior and primary schools in the area
- =160St Bartholomew's CofE Voluntary Controlled Primary School53%
- =166Dixons Trinity Chapeltown52%
- =166Harehills Primary School52%
- =166Swarcliffe Primary School52%
- #169Manston St James Primary Academy51%
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £7,208 (2024-25)
96th of 214 primary schools in Leeds for spending per pupil
- #94Bramham Primary School£7,224
- #95Manston Primary£7,220
- #96Harehills Primary School£7,208
- #97Lowtown Primary School£7,197
- #98St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Hunslet£7,180
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