High Crags Primary Leadership Academy
General Information
- Address: Pratt Lane, Shipley, BD18 2ES – View on map
- Phone: 01274584068
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Mrs Helen Ray
- Age range: 2-11 years
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 28 families put it first for 32 places – 9 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 9 · 2025 10 · 2026 9
- Sixth form: No
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: Does not apply
- Nursery provision: Yes
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 130
- % eligible for free school meals: 46.1%
- Pupil mix: 7 in 10 (more mixed than the Bradford average)
- English as an additional language: 18% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 17.5% a year (Bradford 16%, typical in England 13.9%)
- Where they went: about 33% moved to another school, 67% 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 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: 7.5%
- Persistently absent pupils: 24.5%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
- Resourced provision for Speech, language and communication 6 places · 6 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: 16.1%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 6.1%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Speech, language and communications needs: 30 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 12 pupils
- Specific learning difficulty: 4 pupils
- Physical disability: 2 pupils
- Moderate learning difficulty: 1 pupil
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Speech, language and communications needs: 14 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 4 pupils
- Profound and multiple learning difficulty: 1 pupil
These figures show the makeup of the school.
Educational Attainment
Good 2024 report
Year 6 SATs results
- Met the expected standard in reading, writing & maths: 51% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 6% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: 9 percentage points below the Bradford average (60%)
- Compared with schools with similar pupils: As expected (3-year average 59% against an expected 55%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 59%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 60% · Writing 71% · Maths 71% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 49%
- Average test scores: reading 104, maths 103
- Based on: 35 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 116th of 158 junior and primary schools in the area
- =113St Stephen's CofE Primary School52%
- =116Beckfoot Nessfield51%
- =116High Crags Primary Leadership Academy51%
- =116Shibden Head Primary Academy51%
- =116St Winefride's Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy51%
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44th of 127 primary schools in Bradford for Ofsted rating
- #42Haworth Primary SchoolGood
- #43Heaton St Barnabas' CofE Aided Primary SchoolGood
- #44High Crags Primary Leadership AcademyGood
- #45Hill Top CofE Primary SchoolGood
- #46Hollingwood AcademyGood
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £7,684 (2024-25)
27th of 156 primary schools in Bradford for spending per pupil
- #25St Anthony's Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy£7,705
- #26Horton Park Primary School£7,691
- #27High Crags Primary Leadership Academy£7,684
- #28Long Lee Primary School£7,665
- #29Shipley CofE Primary School£7,662
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