Parkwood Primary School
General Information
- Address: Parkwood Street, Keighley, BD21 4QH – View on map
- Phone: 01535603832
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Mr Thomas Finch
- Age range: 3-11 years
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 20 families put it first for 21 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 11 · 2024 9 · 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: 81
- % eligible for free school meals: 44.3%
- Pupil mix: 7 in 10 (more mixed than the Bradford average)
- English as an additional language: 57% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 28.2% a year (Bradford 16%, typical in England 13.9%)
- Where they went: about 81% moved to another school, 19% 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: 6.7%
- Persistently absent pupils: 25.9%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
- Resourced provision for AutismSpeech, language and communication 12 places · 14 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: 16.2%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 10.5%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Speech, language and communications needs: 17 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 10 pupils
- Moderate learning difficulty: 2 pupils
- Specific learning difficulty: 1 pupil
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 1 pupil
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 9 pupils
- Speech, language and communications needs: 8 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 2 pupils
- Profound and multiple learning difficulty: 1 pupil
These figures show the makeup of the school.
Educational Attainment
Good 2020 report
Year 6 SATs results
- Met the expected standard in reading, writing & maths: 44% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 4% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: 16 percentage points below the Bradford average (60%)
- Compared with schools with similar pupils: Well below (3-year average 48% against an expected 62%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 48%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 59% · Writing 70% · Maths 48% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 52%
- Average test scores: reading 103, maths 99
- Based on: 27 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 138th of 158 junior and primary schools in the area
- =135Thornton Primary School45%
- =135Worthinghead Primary School45%
- =138Parkwood Primary School44%
- =138St John the Evangelist Catholic Primary School44%
- =140Clayton St John CofE Primary School43%
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70th of 127 primary schools in Bradford for Ofsted rating
- #68Oldfield Primary SchoolGood
- #69Our Lady of Victories Catholic SchoolGood
- #70Parkwood Primary SchoolGood
- #71Peel Park Primary School and NurseryGood
- #72Poplars Farm Primary SchoolGood
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £8,106 (2024-25)
12th of 156 primary schools in Bradford for spending per pupil
- #10Baildon Glen Primary School£8,510
- #11Stanbury Village School£8,203
- #12Parkwood Primary School£8,106
- #13Holybrook Primary School£8,071
- #14Merlin Top Primary Academy£8,000
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