Hill Top CofE Primary School
General Information
- Address: Common Road, Low Moor, Bradford, BD12 0TL – View on map
- Phone: 01274678386
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Mrs Julie Ball
- Age range: 4-11 years
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 15 families put it first for 20 places – 8 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 12 · 2025 11 · 2026 8
- Sixth form: No
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: Church of England
- Nursery provision: No
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 39
- % eligible for free school meals: 18.8%
- Pupil mix: 4 in 10 (less mixed than the Bradford average)
- English as an additional language: 4% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 27% a year (Bradford 16%, typical in England 13.9%)
- Where they went: about 55% moved to another school, 45% 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: 7.0%
- Persistently absent pupils: 20.7%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
No dedicated Unit or Resourced Provision
- Pupils on SEN Support: 8.8%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 8.8%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Moderate learning difficulty: 10 pupils
- Speech, language and communications needs: 4 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 3 pupils
- Specific learning difficulty: 1 pupil
- Social, emotional and mental health: 1 pupil
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Speech, language and communications needs: 7 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 5 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 5 pupils
- Physical disability: 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: 46% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 0% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: 14 percentage points below the Bradford average (60%)
- Compared with schools with similar pupils: Well below (3-year average 41% against an expected 59%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 41%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 71% · Writing 50% · Maths 75% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 75%
- Average test scores: reading 104, maths 103
- Based on: 28 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 132nd of 158 junior and primary schools in the area
- =130St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy47%
- =132Christ Church Church of England Academy46%
- =132Hill Top CofE Primary School46%
- =132Our Lady and St Brendan's Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy46%
- =135Carlton Mills45%
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45th of 127 primary schools in Bradford for Ofsted rating
- #43Heaton St Barnabas' CofE Aided Primary SchoolGood
- #44High Crags Primary Leadership AcademyGood
- #45Hill Top CofE Primary SchoolGood
- #46Hollingwood AcademyGood
- #47Holycroft Primary SchoolGood
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £7,073 (2024-25)
53rd of 156 primary schools in Bradford for spending per pupil
- #51Westminster Church of England Primary Academy£7,091
- #52St Paul's CofE Primary School£7,079
- #53Hill Top CofE Primary School£7,073
- #54Our Lady and St Brendan's Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy£7,062
- #55Greengates Primary Academy£7,030
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