Leopold Primary School
General Information
- Address: Hawkshead Road, Willesden, NW10 9UR – View on map
- Phone: 02084595654
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Miss Theresa Landreth
- Age range: 3-11 years
- Furthest place offered from: Not distance-based that year - not oversubscribed in 2026, places were available From the council's own Sept 2026 admissions data - not a fixed catchment boundary, and no guarantee for future years, since it shifts with demand each year.
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 43 families put it first for 47 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: 197
- % eligible for free school meals: 39.4%
- Pupil mix: 8 in 10 (more mixed than the Brent average)
- English as an additional language: 67% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 29.9% a year (Brent 20.2%, 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 Brent: suspensions by reason
- Suspensions for sexual misconduct: 8 (0.3 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.2)
- Permanent exclusions for sexual misconduct: 0
- Suspensions for bullying: 9 (0.3 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.2)
- Suspensions for abuse against sexual orientation or gender identity: 0 (0.0 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 Brent, 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: 5.5%
- Persistently absent pupils: 14.5%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
No dedicated Unit or Resourced Provision
- Pupils on SEN Support: 20.8%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 4.7%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Speech, language and communications needs: 37 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 29 pupils
- Specific learning difficulty: 14 pupils
- Moderate learning difficulty: 8 pupils
- SEN support but no specialist assessment of type of need: 8 pupils
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Speech, language and communications needs: 8 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 7 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 5 pupils
- Hearing impairment: 2 pupils
- Specific learning difficulty: 1 pupil
These figures show the makeup of the school.
Educational Attainment
Good 2022 report
Year 6 SATs results
- Met the expected standard in reading, writing & maths: 62% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 0% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: 9 percentage points below the Brent average (71%)
- Compared with schools with similar pupils: As expected (3-year average 58% against an expected 58%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 58%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 70% · Writing 70% · Maths 71% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 74%
- Average test scores: reading 104, maths 104
- Based on: 73 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 41st of 54 junior and primary schools in the area
- =39Wykeham Primary School63%
- =41Harlesden Primary School62%
- =41Leopold Primary School62%
- =41St Mary's CofE Primary School62%
- #44St Mary Magdalen's Catholic Junior School61%
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19th of 40 primary schools in Brent for Ofsted rating
- #17Kilburn Grange SchoolGood
- #18Kingsbury Green Primary SchoolGood
- #19Leopold Primary SchoolGood
- #20Lyon Park Primary SchoolGood
- #21Malorees Primary SchoolGood
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £9,527 (2024-25)
6th of 48 primary schools in Brent for spending per pupil
- #4Christ Church CofE Primary School£9,982
- #5Donnington Primary School£9,528
- #6Leopold Primary School£9,527
- #7Northview Junior and Infant School£9,177
- #8Fryent Primary School£9,051
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