Leadgate Primary School - Split Site
General Information
- Address: Alder Grove and West Street, Leadgate, Consett, DH8 7RH – View on map
- Phone: 01207610355
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Miss Laura Weaver
- Age range: 2-11 years
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 27 families put it first for 27 places – 10 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 10 · 2025 10 · 2026 10
- Sixth form: No
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: Does not apply
- Nursery provision: Yes
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 87
- % eligible for free school meals: 51.8%
- Pupil mix: 1 in 10 (similar to the County Durham average)
- English as an additional language: 5% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 15.3% a year (County Durham 13.1%, typical in England 13.9%)
- Where they went: about 50% moved to another school, 50% 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. This is a small staff, so one or two teachers leaving moves the figure a lot.
Behaviour
Awaiting Data
Across County Durham: suspensions by reason
- Suspensions for sexual misconduct: 12 (0.3 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.2)
- Permanent exclusions for sexual misconduct: 0
- Suspensions for bullying: 5 (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 County Durham, 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: 5.4%
- Persistently absent pupils: 15.7%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
- Resourced provision for Social, emotional and mental health 8 places · 8 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: 19.4%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 12.2%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Speech, language and communications needs: 16 pupils
- SEN support but no specialist assessment of type of need: 6 pupils
- Other difficulty or disability: 5 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 4 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 1 pupil
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Social, emotional and mental health: 9 pupils
- Speech, language and communications needs: 7 pupils
- Other difficulty or disability: 3 pupils
- Specific learning difficulty: 1 pupil
- Moderate learning difficulty: 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: 47% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 3% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: 15 percentage points below the County Durham average (62%)
- Compared with schools with similar pupils: Below (3-year average 48% against an expected 57%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 48%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 63% · Writing 73% · Maths 53% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 70%
- Average test scores: reading 103, maths 100
- Based on: 30 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 154th of 184 junior and primary schools in the area
- #153Pelton Community Primary School48%
- =154Acre Rigg Academy47%
- =154Leadgate Primary School - Split Site47%
- =154St Pius Xth Catholic Primary School, Consett47%
- =157St Andrew's Academy46%
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55th of 141 primary schools in County Durham for Ofsted rating
- #53Langley Moor Primary SchoolGood
- #54Laurel Avenue Community Primary SchoolGood
- #55Leadgate Primary School - Split SiteGood
- #56Ludworth Primary SchoolGood
- #57Nettlesworth Primary SchoolGood
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £9,567 (2024-25)
41st of 189 primary schools in County Durham for spending per pupil
- #39St Godrics Catholic Primary School, Thornley£9,671
- #40Stanley Burnside Primary School£9,579
- #41Leadgate Primary School - Split Site£9,567
- #42Durham Gilesgate Primary School£9,472
- #43Bullion Lane Primary School£9,426
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