Russell Hall Primary School
General Information
- Address: West End, Queensbury, Bradford, BD13 2AW – View on map
- Phone: 01274882116
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Mr Andrew Grant
- Age range: 3-11 years
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 27 families put it first for 30 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 11 · 2024 10 · 2025 10 · 2026 9
- Sixth form: No
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: None
- Nursery provision: Yes
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 56
- % eligible for free school meals: 29.5%
- Pupil mix: 3 in 10 (less mixed than the Bradford average)
- English as an additional language: 3% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 8.3% a year (Bradford 16%, 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. This is a small staff, so one or two teachers leaving moves the figure a lot.
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: 5.1%
- Persistently absent pupils: 13.7%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
No dedicated Unit or Resourced Provision
- Pupils on SEN Support: 22.1%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 5.9%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Social, emotional and mental health: 20 pupils
- Speech, language and communications needs: 12 pupils
- Moderate learning difficulty: 6 pupils
- Specific learning difficulty: 2 pupils
- Hearing impairment: 2 pupils
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Speech, language and communications needs: 4 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 3 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 3 pupils
- Severe learning difficulty: 1 pupil
- Other difficulty or disability: 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: 57% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 0% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: 3 percentage points below the Bradford average (60%)
- Compared with schools with similar pupils: Well below (3-year average 42% against an expected 54%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 42%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 77% · Writing 77% · Maths 67% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 63%
- Average test scores: reading 103, maths 100
- Based on: 30 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 95th of 158 junior and primary schools in the area
- =95Ingrow Primary School57%
- =95Myrtle Park Primary57%
- =95Russell Hall Primary School57%
- =95St. Clare's Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy57%
- =95Stocks Lane Primary School57%
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76th of 127 primary schools in Bradford for Ofsted rating
- #74Reevy Hill Primary SchoolGood
- #75Riddlesden St Mary's CofE Primary SchoolGood
- #76Russell Hall Primary SchoolGood
- #77Ryecroft Primary AcademyGood
- #78Saltaire Primary SchoolGood
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £6,623 (2024-25)
78th of 156 primary schools in Bradford for spending per pupil
- #76Foxhill Primary School£6,640
- #77St Stephen's CofE Primary School£6,626
- #78Russell Hall Primary School£6,623
- #79Ashlands Primary School£6,622
- #80Myrtle Park Primary£6,622
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