Low Ash Primary School
General Information
- Address: Wrose Road, Wrose, Shipley, BD18 1AA – View on map
- Phone: 01274582927
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Mrs Beth Medhurst
- Age range: 3-11 years
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 80 families put it first for 59 places – 14 for every 10 places. 71% 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 12 · 2024 9 · 2025 10 · 2026 14
- Sixth form: No
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: Does not apply
- Nursery provision: Yes
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 89
- % eligible for free school meals: 19.1%
- Pupil mix: 5 in 10 (similar to the Bradford average)
- English as an additional language: 17% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 10.5% a year (Bradford 16%, typical in England 13.9%)
- Where they went: about 42% moved to another school, 58% 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: 4.8%
- Persistently absent pupils: 9.0%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
No dedicated Unit or Resourced Provision
- Pupils on SEN Support: 9.4%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 6.1%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Speech, language and communications needs: 29 pupils
- Moderate learning difficulty: 4 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 4 pupils
- Physical disability: 3 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 3 pupils
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Speech, language and communications needs: 18 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 6 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 4 pupils
- Moderate learning difficulty: 1 pupil
These figures show the makeup of the school.
Educational Attainment
Good 2016 report
Year 6 SATs results
- Met the expected standard in reading, writing & maths: 70% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 5% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: 10 percentage points above the Bradford average (60%)
- Compared with schools with similar pupils: Above (3-year average 75% against an expected 69%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 75%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 84% · Writing 77% · Maths 82% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 82%
- Average test scores: reading 107, maths 105
- Based on: 57 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 44th of 158 junior and primary schools in the area
- =44Haworth Primary School70%
- =44Lilycroft Primary School70%
- =44Low Ash Primary School70%
- =44Menston Primary School70%
- =44St Anne's Catholic Primary School70%
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60th of 127 primary schools in Bradford for Ofsted rating
- #58Lilycroft Primary SchoolGood
- #59Long Lee Primary SchoolGood
- #60Low Ash Primary SchoolGood
- #61Low Moor CofE Primary SchoolGood
- #62Lower Fields Primary AcademyGood
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £6,487 (2024-25)
93rd of 156 primary schools in Bradford for spending per pupil
- #91Crossley Hall Academy£6,527
- #92Bankfoot Primary School£6,518
- #93Low Ash Primary School£6,487
- #94St Cuthbert and the First Martyrs' Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy£6,464
- #95St John the Evangelist Catholic Primary School£6,443
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