Thorner Church of England Primary School
General Information
- Address: Kirkhills, Thorner, Leeds, LS14 3JD – View on map
- Phone: 01132892541
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Mr Stephen Butterworth
- Age range: 4-11 years
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 19 families put it first for 20 places – 10 for every 10 places. Every one of them was offered a place. 1 of the 20 places went to families living outside the council area. Children putting it first, for every 10 places: 2023 9 · 2024 9 · 2025 10 · 2026 10
- Sixth form: No
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: Church of England
- Nursery provision: No
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 16
- % eligible for free school meals: 8.8%
- Pupil mix: 2 in 10 (less mixed than the Leeds average)
- English as an additional language: 2% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 0% a year (Leeds 14.8%, typical in England 13.9%)
- 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: 3.7%
- Persistently absent pupils: 4.9%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
No dedicated Unit or Resourced Provision
- Pupils on SEN Support: 24.2%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 1.1%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Speech, language and communications needs: 29 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 4 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 4 pupils
- Specific learning difficulty: 3 pupils
- Moderate learning difficulty: 3 pupils
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Speech, language and communications needs: 1 pupil
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 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: 85% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 19% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: 24 percentage points above the Leeds average (61%)
- Compared with schools with similar pupils: As expected (3-year average 72% against an expected 68%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 72%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 88% · Writing 92% · Maths 92% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 92%
- Average test scores: reading 110, maths 108
- Based on: 26 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 16th of 214 junior and primary schools in the area
- =16Christ The King Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy85%
- =16St Philip's Catholic Primary School85%
- =16Thorner Church of England Primary School85%
- #20Birchfield Primary School84%
- =21Blenheim Primary School83%
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152nd of 176 primary schools in Leeds for Ofsted rating
- #150Swillington Primary SchoolGood
- #151Templenewsam Halton Primary SchoolGood
- #152Thorner Church of England Primary SchoolGood
- #153Thorpe Primary SchoolGood
- #154Tranmere Park Primary SchoolGood
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £5,950 (2024-25)
192nd of 214 primary schools in Leeds for spending per pupil
- #190Holy Name Catholic Voluntary Academy£5,990
- #191St Paul's Catholic Primary School, a Voluntary Academy£5,951
- #192Thorner Church of England Primary School£5,950
- #193St Mary's Catholic Primary School, Horsforth£5,891
- #194Horsforth Featherbank Primary School£5,868
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