St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Otley
General Information
- Address: Manor Square, Otley, LS21 3AP – View on map
- Phone: 01943463840
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Mr Luke Gilhooly
- Age range: 4-11 years
- Sixth form: No
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: Roman Catholic
- Nursery provision: No
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 20
- % eligible for free school meals: 10.7%
- Pupil mix: 2 in 10 (less mixed than the Leeds average)
- English as an additional language: 5% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 16.3% a year (Leeds 14.8%, typical in England 13.9%)
- Where they went: about 26% moved to another school, 74% 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 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: 3.4%
- Persistently absent pupils: 6.8%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
No dedicated Unit or Resourced Provision
- Pupils on SEN Support: 15.5%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 0.5%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Speech, language and communications needs: 16 pupils
- Moderate learning difficulty: 6 pupils
- Specific learning difficulty: 2 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 2 pupils
- Physical disability: 1 pupil
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Other difficulty or disability: 1 pupil
These figures show the makeup of the school.
Educational Attainment
Good 2024 report
Year 6 SATs results
- Met the expected standard in reading, writing & maths: 67% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 8% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: 6 percentage points above the Leeds average (61%)
- Compared with schools with similar pupils: Above (3-year average 70% against an expected 64%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 70%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 75% · Writing 79% · Maths 83% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 83%
- Average test scores: reading 108, maths 106
- Based on: 24 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 94th of 214 junior and primary schools in the area
- =94Raynville Academy67%
- =94Rothwell Primary School67%
- =94St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Otley67%
- =94Thorpe Primary School67%
- =94Westbrook Lane Primary School67%
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132nd of 169 primary schools in Leeds for Ofsted rating
- #130St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary AcademyGood
- #131St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, HunsletGood
- #132St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, OtleyGood
- #133St Margaret's Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary SchoolGood
- #134St Matthew's Church of England Primary SchoolGood
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £5,784 (2024-25)
199th of 214 primary schools in Leeds for spending per pupil
- #197Kippax Ash Tree Primary School£5,837
- #198St Edward's Catholic Primary School, Boston Spa£5,831
- #199St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Otley£5,784
- #200Austhorpe Primary School£5,779
- #201Wigton Moor Primary School£5,748
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