Lowtown Primary School
General Information
- Address: Kent Road, Pudsey, LS28 9BB – View on map
- Phone: 01132567303
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Mrs Clare Armitage
- Age range: 5-11 years
- Sixth form: No
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: Does not apply
- Nursery provision: No
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 27
- % eligible for free school meals: 13.0%
- Pupil mix: 2 in 10 (less mixed than the Leeds average)
- English as an additional language: 3% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 13.9% a year (Leeds 14.8%, typical in England 13.9%)
- Where they went: about 27% moved to another school, 73% 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 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: 3.8%
- Persistently absent pupils: 6.2%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
No dedicated Unit or Resourced Provision
- Pupils on SEN Support: 12.5%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 3.4%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Speech, language and communications needs: 17 pupils
- Moderate learning difficulty: 5 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 2 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 1 pupil
- Specific learning difficulty: 1 pupil
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 3 pupils
- Speech, language and communications needs: 1 pupil
- Social, emotional and mental health: 1 pupil
- Profound and multiple learning difficulty: 1 pupil
- Severe 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: 86% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 21% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: 25 percentage points above the Leeds average (61%)
- Compared with schools with similar pupils: Well above (3-year average 78% against an expected 64%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 78%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 97% · Writing 86% · Maths 100% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 97%
- Average test scores: reading 112, maths 111
- Based on: 29 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 14th of 214 junior and primary schools in the area
- =9St Peter's Church of England Primary School87%
- =14Low Road Primary School86%
- =14Lowtown Primary School86%
- =16Beecroft Primary School85%
- =16Christ The King Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy85%
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95th of 169 primary schools in Leeds for Ofsted rating
- #93Low Road Primary SchoolGood
- #94Lower Wortley Primary SchoolGood
- #95Lowtown Primary SchoolGood
- #96Manston PrimaryGood
- #97Meadowfield Primary SchoolGood
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £7,197 (2024-25)
97th of 214 primary schools in Leeds for spending per pupil
- #95Manston Primary£7,220
- #96Harehills Primary School£7,208
- #97Lowtown Primary School£7,197
- #98St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Hunslet£7,180
- #99Thorpe Primary School£7,170
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