Westbrook Lane Primary School
General Information
- Address: Westbrook Lane, Horsforth, Leeds, LS18 5AH – View on map
- Phone: 01132587913
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Miss Helena Fishburn
- Age range: 4-11 years
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 22 families put it first for 28 places – 8 for every 10 places. Every one of them was offered a place. 1 of the 28 places went to families living outside the council area. Children putting it first, for every 10 places: 2023 11 · 2024 10 · 2025 11 · 2026 8
- Sixth form: No
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: Does not apply
- Nursery provision: No
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 9
- % eligible for free school meals: 4.2%
- Pupil mix: 3 in 10 (less mixed than the Leeds average)
- English as an additional language: 8% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 11.2% a year (Leeds 14.8%, typical in England 13.9%)
- Where they went: about 31% moved to another school, 69% 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: 2.8%
- Persistently absent pupils: 3.9%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
No dedicated Unit or Resourced Provision
- Pupils on SEN Support: 13.7%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 3.8%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Speech, language and communications needs: 9 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 6 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 5 pupils
- Moderate learning difficulty: 2 pupils
- Other difficulty or disability: 2 pupils
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 4 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 2 pupils
- Moderate learning difficulty: 1 pupil
- Other difficulty or disability: 1 pupil
These figures show the makeup of the school.
Educational Attainment
Ofsted report card March 2026
Ofsted's new report cards grade each part of school life separately, instead of giving one overall word.
- Safeguarding Met
- Inclusion Expected standard
- Curriculum and teaching Needs attention
- Achievement Needs attention
- Attendance and behaviour Expected standard
- Personal development and wellbeing Expected standard
- Early years Expected standard
- Leadership and governance Expected standard
Before this, under the old system, Ofsted rated the school Good (2021). The report card above replaces that grade.
Year 6 SATs results
- Met the expected standard in reading, writing & maths: 67% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 10% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: 6 percentage points above the Leeds average (61%)
- Compared with schools with similar pupils: As expected (3-year average 71% against an expected 72%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 71%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 87% · Writing 77% · Maths 90% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 97%
- Average test scores: reading 108, maths 108
- Based on: 30 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
- =94St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Otley67%
- =94Thorpe Primary School67%
- =94Westbrook Lane Primary School67%
- #102Alder Tree Primary Academy66%
- =103Beechwood Primary School65%
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £6,804 (2024-25)
137th of 214 primary schools in Leeds for spending per pupil
- #135Sharp Lane Primary School£6,844
- #136St James' Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School£6,815
- #137Westbrook Lane Primary School£6,804
- #138Raynville Academy£6,800
- #139Victoria Primary Academy£6,794
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