Sharp Lane Primary School
General Information
- Address: Sharp Lane, Middleton, Leeds, LS10 4QE – View on map
- Phone: 01138315551
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Mrs Rebecca White
- Age range: 3-11 years
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 62 families put it first for 64 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 10 · 2024 10 · 2025 9 · 2026 10
- Sixth form: No
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: Does not apply
- Nursery provision: Yes
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 140
- % eligible for free school meals: 26.4%
- Pupil mix: 6 in 10 (similar to the Leeds average)
- English as an additional language: 23% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 15.5% a year (Leeds 14.8%, typical in England 13.9%)
- Where they went: about 44% moved to another school, 56% 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: 6.3%
- Persistently absent pupils: 20.0%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
No dedicated Unit or Resourced Provision
- Pupils on SEN Support: 27.4%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 3.2%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Speech, language and communications needs: 90 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 33 pupils
- Other difficulty or disability: 15 pupils
- Specific learning difficulty: 5 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 3 pupils
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Speech, language and communications needs: 12 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 3 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 2 pupils
- Physical disability: 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: 53% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 4% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: 8 percentage points below the Leeds average (61%)
- Compared with schools with similar pupils: Below (3-year average 53% against an expected 61%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 53%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 69% · Writing 73% · Maths 58% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 66%
- Average test scores: reading 103, maths 101
- Based on: 90 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 160th of 214 junior and primary schools in the area
- =160Middleton Primary School53%
- =160Rosebank Primary School53%
- =160Sharp Lane Primary School53%
- =160St Bartholomew's CofE Voluntary Controlled Primary School53%
- =166Dixons Trinity Chapeltown52%
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127th of 176 primary schools in Leeds for Ofsted rating
- #125Seven Hills Primary SchoolGood
- #126Shakespeare Primary SchoolGood
- #127Sharp Lane Primary SchoolGood
- #128Shire Oak VC Primary SchoolGood
- #129Southroyd Primary and Nursery SchoolGood
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £6,844 (2024-25)
135th of 214 primary schools in Leeds for spending per pupil
- #133Co-op Academy Brownhill£6,856
- #134Tranmere Park Primary School£6,851
- #135Sharp Lane Primary School£6,844
- #136St James' Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School£6,815
- #137Westbrook Lane Primary School£6,804
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