Lapage Primary School and Nursery
General Information
- Address: Barkerend Road, Bradford, BD3 8QX – View on map
- Phone: 01274669100
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Mr Richard Grogan
- Age range: 3-11 years
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 49 families put it first for 54 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 8 · 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: 233
- % eligible for free school meals: 40.2%
- Pupil mix: 6 in 10 (more mixed than the Bradford average)
- English as an additional language: 94% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 20.7% a year (Bradford 16%, typical in England 13.9%)
- Where they went: about 21% moved to another school, 79% 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: 6.6%
- Persistently absent pupils: 21.3%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
No dedicated Unit or Resourced Provision
- Pupils on SEN Support: 14.5%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 6.2%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Speech, language and communications needs: 50 pupils
- Moderate learning difficulty: 22 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 12 pupils
- SEN support but no specialist assessment of type of need: 2 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 2 pupils
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Speech, language and communications needs: 25 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 9 pupils
- Physical disability: 2 pupils
- Specific learning difficulty: 1 pupil
- Profound and multiple learning difficulty: 1 pupil
These figures show the makeup of the school.
Educational Attainment
Good 2013 report
Year 6 SATs results
- Met the expected standard in reading, writing & maths: 53% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 6% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: 7 percentage points below the Bradford average (60%)
- Compared with schools with similar pupils: As expected (3-year average 59% against an expected 63%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 59%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 63% · Writing 67% · Maths 72% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 69%
- Average test scores: reading 102, maths 104
- Based on: 88 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: 112th of 158 junior and primary schools in the area
- =107St Paul's CofE Primary School54%
- =107Westminster Church of England Primary Academy54%
- #112Lapage Primary School and Nursery53%
- =113Denholme Primary School52%
- =113Southmere Primary Academy52%
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55th of 127 primary schools in Bradford for Ofsted rating
- #53Keighley St Andrew's CofE Primary School and NurseryGood
- #54Killinghall Primary SchoolGood
- #55Lapage Primary School and NurseryGood
- #56Laycock AcademyGood
- #57Lees Primary SchoolGood
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £5,753 (2024-25)
146th of 156 primary schools in Bradford for spending per pupil
- #144Cullingworth Village Primary School£5,808
- #145Low Moor CofE Primary School£5,762
- #146Lapage Primary School and Nursery£5,753
- #147Idle CofE Primary School£5,737
- #148St Anthony's Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy£5,663
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