Swarcliffe Primary School
General Information
- Address: Swarcliffe Drive, Leeds, LS14 5JW – View on map
- Phone: 01132930275
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Kimberly Green (West)
- Age range: 3-11 years
- Sixth form: No
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: Does not apply
- Nursery provision: Yes
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 122
- % eligible for free school meals: 41.4%
- Pupil mix: 5 in 10 (similar to the Leeds average)
- English as an additional language: 23% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 15.7% a year (Leeds 14.8%, typical in England 13.9%)
- Where they went: about 74% moved to another school, 26% 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: 8.1%
- Persistently absent pupils: 28.1%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
No dedicated Unit or Resourced Provision
- Pupils on SEN Support: 21.1%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 3.0%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Speech, language and communications needs: 41 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 9 pupils
- Specific learning difficulty: 6 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 5 pupils
- Moderate learning difficulty: 1 pupil
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Speech, language and communications needs: 4 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 3 pupils
- Moderate learning difficulty: 1 pupil
- Social, emotional and mental health: 1 pupil
These figures show the makeup of the school.
Educational Attainment
No overall grade given 2025 report
Year 6 SATs results
- Met the expected standard in reading, writing & maths: 52% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 9% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: 9 percentage points below the Leeds average (61%)
- Compared with schools with similar pupils: Well below (3-year average 51% against an expected 63%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 51%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 75% · Writing 75% · Maths 59% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 73%
- Average test scores: reading 105, maths 103
- 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 166th of 214 junior and primary schools in the area
- =166Dixons Trinity Chapeltown52%
- =166Harehills Primary School52%
- =166Swarcliffe Primary School52%
- #169Manston St James Primary Academy51%
- =170Ashfield Primary School50%
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £7,627 (2024-25)
67th of 214 primary schools in Leeds for spending per pupil
- #65St Anthony's Catholic Primary School, Beeston£7,656
- #66Alder Tree Primary Academy£7,648
- #67Swarcliffe Primary School£7,627
- #68Lift Cottingley£7,618
- #69Weetwood Primary School£7,601
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