Horsforth Featherbank Primary School
General Information
- Address: Featherbank Avenue, Horsforth, Leeds, LS18 4QP – View on map
- Phone: 01132589412
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Miss Lorraine Scudder
- Age range: 4-11 years
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 36 families put it first for 30 places – 12 for every 10 places. 83% 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 11 · 2024 11 · 2025 15 · 2026 12
- Sixth form: No
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: Does not apply
- Nursery provision: No
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 33
- % eligible for free school meals: 15.6%
- Pupil mix: 5 in 10 (similar to the Leeds average)
- English as an additional language: 9% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 16% a year (Leeds 14.8%, typical in England 13.9%)
- Where they went: about 60% moved to another school, 40% 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: 3.0%
- Persistently absent pupils: 3.8%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
No dedicated Unit or Resourced Provision
- Pupils on SEN Support: 13.7%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 0.5%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Speech, language and communications needs: 11 pupils
- Moderate learning difficulty: 8 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 4 pupils
- Other difficulty or disability: 3 pupils
- Vision impairment: 1 pupil
These figures show the makeup of the school.
Educational Attainment
Outstanding 2024 report
Year 6 SATs results
- Met the expected standard in reading, writing & maths: 87% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 10% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: 26 percentage points above the Leeds average (61%)
- Compared with schools with similar pupils: Well above (3-year average 85% against an expected 65%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 85%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 97% · Writing 87% · Maths 94% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 94%
- Average test scores: reading 112, maths 110
- 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 9th of 214 junior and primary schools in the area
- =9Crossley Street Primary School87%
- =9East Garforth Primary Academy87%
- =9Horsforth Featherbank Primary School87%
- =9Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy87%
- =9St Peter's Church of England Primary School87%
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9th of 176 primary schools in Leeds for Ofsted rating
- #7Green Lane Primary AcademyOutstanding
- #8Highfield Primary SchoolOutstanding
- #9Horsforth Featherbank Primary SchoolOutstanding
- #10Moortown Primary SchoolOutstanding
- #11Morley Newlands AcademyOutstanding
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £5,868 (2024-25)
194th of 214 primary schools in Leeds for spending per pupil
- #192Thorner Church of England Primary School£5,950
- #193St Mary's Catholic Primary School, Horsforth£5,891
- #194Horsforth Featherbank Primary School£5,868
- #195Elements Primary School£5,865
- #196Farsley Springbank Primary School£5,842
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