Spring Bank Primary School
General Information
- Address: Spring Road, Headingley, Leeds, LS6 1AD – View on map
- Phone: 01132043120
- Headteacher: Mr Jordan License
- Age range: 4-11 years
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 12 families put it first for 18 places – 7 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: 2025 5 · 2026 7
- Sixth form: No
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: Does not apply
- Nursery provision: No
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 55
- % eligible for free school meals: 30.1%
- Pupil mix: 8 in 10 (more mixed than the Leeds average)
- English as an additional language: 37% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 11.1% a year (Leeds 14.8%, typical in England 13.9%)
- Where they went: about 0% moved to another school, 100% left state schools altogether (retirement, other careers, independent schools, abroad)
- Data years: 2022/23 to 2024/25 (one year, 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: 5.6%
- Persistently absent pupils: 18.3%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
No dedicated Unit or Resourced Provision
- Pupils on SEN Support: 19.8%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 1.1%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Social, emotional and mental health: 12 pupils
- Speech, language and communications needs: 9 pupils
- Moderate learning difficulty: 7 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 5 pupils
- Specific learning difficulty: 3 pupils
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Specific learning difficulty: 1 pupil
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 1 pupil
These figures show the makeup of the school.
Educational Attainment
Requires improvement 2021 report
Year 6 SATs results
- Met the expected standard in reading, writing & maths: 65% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 20% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: 4 percentage points above the Leeds average (61%)
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 90% · Writing 80% · Maths 80% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 70%
- Average test scores: reading 107, maths 106
- Based on: 20 Year 6 pupils, 2024/25
View the School Context Comparator – how this school's SATs results compare with schools teaching similar pupils.
Year 6 SATs: joint 103rd of 214 junior and primary schools in the area
- =103Chapel Allerton Primary School65%
- =103Pudsey Bolton Royd Primary School65%
- =103Spring Bank Primary School65%
- =107Barwick-in-Elmet CofE Primary School and Nursery64%
- =107Holy Trinity Church of England Academy, Rothwell64%
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174th of 176 primary schools in Leeds for Ofsted rating
- #172Little London AcademyRequires improvement
- #173Primrose Lane Primary SchoolRequires improvement
- #174Spring Bank Primary SchoolRequires improvement
- #175Swinnow Primary SchoolRequires improvement
- #176Cockburn Ingram Road AcademyInadequate
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £8,005 (2024-25)
39th of 214 primary schools in Leeds for spending per pupil
- #37Kirkstall Valley Primary School£8,015
- #38Allerton CofE Primary School£8,013
- #39Spring Bank Primary School£8,005
- #40Quarry Mount Primary School£8,001
- #41Shakespeare Primary School£7,978
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