St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy
General Information
- Address: Crownest Road, Bingley, BD16 4HQ – View on map
- Phone: 01274564883
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Mrs Louise Robinson
- Age range: 5-11 years
- Sixth form: No
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: Roman Catholic
- Nursery provision: No
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 15
- % eligible for free school meals: 9.8%
- Pupil mix: 4 in 10 (less mixed than the Bradford average)
- English as an additional language: 14% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 4% a year (Bradford 16%, 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 (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: 3.3%
- Persistently absent pupils: 6.4%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
No dedicated Unit or Resourced Provision
- Pupils on SEN Support: 12.4%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 3.3%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Specific learning difficulty: 7 pupils
- Speech, language and communications needs: 3 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 3 pupils
- SEN support but no specialist assessment of type of need: 3 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 2 pupils
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Moderate learning difficulty: 2 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 2 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 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: 75% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 13% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: 15 percentage points above the Bradford average (60%)
- Compared with schools with similar pupils: Well above (3-year average 79% against an expected 64%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 79%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 84% · Writing 81% · Maths 91% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 72%
- Average test scores: reading 107, maths 106
- Based on: 32 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 30th of 158 junior and primary schools in the area
- =30Copthorne Primary School75%
- =30Lady Royd Primary School75%
- =30St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy75%
- =35Eldwick Primary School73%
- =35Hoyle Court Primary School73%
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81st of 113 primary schools in Bradford for Ofsted rating
- #79St Columba's Catholic Primary School, a Voluntary AcademyGood
- #80St Cuthbert and the First Martyrs' Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary AcademyGood
- #81St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary AcademyGood
- #82St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary AcademyGood
- #83St Luke's CofE Primary SchoolGood
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £6,237 (2024-25)
119th of 156 primary schools in Bradford for spending per pupil
- #117Wilsden Primary School£6,301
- #118Barkerend Primary Leadership Academy£6,237
- #119St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy£6,237
- #120Thornton Primary School£6,228
- #121Poplars Farm Primary School£6,219
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