Pudsey Waterloo Primary
General Information
- Address: Victoria Road, Pudsey, LS28 7SR – View on map
- Phone: 01133230342
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Mr Dan White
- Age range: 3-11 years
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 43 families put it first for 48 places – 9 for every 10 places. Every one of them was offered a place. 2 of the 48 places went to families living outside the council area. Children putting it first, for every 10 places: 2023 9 · 2024 10 · 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: 86
- % eligible for free school meals: 20.7%
- Pupil mix: 4 in 10 (less mixed than the Leeds average)
- English as an additional language: 10% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 12.9% a year (Leeds 14.8%, 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.
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: 5.1%
- Persistently absent pupils: 13.2%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
No dedicated Unit or Resourced Provision
- Pupils on SEN Support: 17.8%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 2.6%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Speech, language and communications needs: 29 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 26 pupils
- Specific learning difficulty: 8 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 5 pupils
- Moderate learning difficulty: 3 pupils
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 8 pupils
- Speech, language and communications needs: 2 pupils
- Profound and multiple 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: 60% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 8% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: in line with the Leeds average (61%)
- Compared with schools with similar pupils: As expected (3-year average 69% against an expected 66%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 69%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 68% · Writing 70% · Maths 87% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 65%
- Average test scores: reading 106, maths 105
- Based on: 60 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 133rd of 214 junior and primary schools in the area
- =133Guiseley Primary School60%
- =133Kippax North Primary School60%
- =133Pudsey Waterloo Primary60%
- =133St Chad's Church of England Primary School60%
- =133St James' Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School60%
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112th of 176 primary schools in Leeds for Ofsted rating
- #110Primley Wood Primary SchoolGood
- #111Pudsey Bolton Royd Primary SchoolGood
- #112Pudsey Waterloo PrimaryGood
- #113Quarry Mount Primary SchoolGood
- #114Rawdon Littlemoor Primary SchoolGood
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £6,368 (2024-25)
175th of 214 primary schools in Leeds for spending per pupil
- #173St Nicholas Catholic Primary School£6,384
- #174St Matthew's Church of England Primary School£6,377
- #175Pudsey Waterloo Primary£6,368
- #176Morley Victoria Primary School£6,329
- #177West End Primary School£6,323
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