St Nicholas Catholic Primary School
General Information
- Address: Oakwood Lane, Leeds, LS9 6QY – View on map
- Phone: 01132930318
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Mrs Jane Burns
- Age range: 4-11 years
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 41 families put it first for 45 places – 9 for every 10 places. 98% of them were offered a place. No places went to families living outside the council area. Children putting it first, for every 10 places: 2023 12 · 2024 12 · 2025 8 · 2026 9
- Sixth form: No
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: Roman Catholic
- Nursery provision: No
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 70
- % eligible for free school meals: 22.4%
- 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: 21.6% a year (Leeds 14.8%, typical in England 13.9%)
- Where they went: about 37% moved to another school, 63% 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: 3.3%
- Persistently absent pupils: 5.1%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
No dedicated Unit or Resourced Provision
- Pupils on SEN Support: 19.2%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 2.9%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Speech, language and communications needs: 41 pupils
- Moderate learning difficulty: 6 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 6 pupils
- Specific learning difficulty: 3 pupils
- Other difficulty or disability: 1 pupil
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Speech, language and communications needs: 6 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 2 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 1 pupil
These figures show the makeup of the school.
Educational Attainment
Good 2022 report
Year 6 SATs results
- Met the expected standard in reading, writing & maths: 64% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 9% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: 3 percentage points above the Leeds average (61%)
- Compared with schools with similar pupils: As expected (3-year average 64% against an expected 64%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 64%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 70% · Writing 77% · Maths 80% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 86%
- Average test scores: reading 105, maths 105
- Based on: 44 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 107th of 214 junior and primary schools in the area
- =107Holy Trinity Church of England Academy, Rothwell64%
- =107Kerr Mackie Primary School64%
- =107St Nicholas Catholic Primary School64%
- =111Bramley Park Academy63%
- =111Broadgate Primary School63%
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141st of 176 primary schools in Leeds for Ofsted rating
- #139St Margaret's Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary SchoolGood
- #140St Matthew's Church of England Primary SchoolGood
- #141St Nicholas Catholic Primary SchoolGood
- #142St Patrick Catholic Primary SchoolGood
- #143St Philip's Catholic Primary SchoolGood
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £6,384 (2024-25)
173rd of 214 primary schools in Leeds for spending per pupil
- #171Swillington Primary School£6,447
- #172St Urban's Catholic Primary School, a Voluntary Academy£6,387
- #173St Nicholas Catholic Primary School£6,384
- #174St Matthew's Church of England Primary School£6,377
- #175Pudsey Waterloo Primary£6,368
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