Wykebeck Primary School
General Information
- Address: Brander Street, Gipton, Leeds, LS9 6QH – View on map
- Phone: 01132491525
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Miss Vivien Watson
- Age range: 2-11 years
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 20 families put it first for 21 places – 10 for every 10 places. Every one of them was offered a place. No places went to families living outside the council area. Children putting it first, for every 10 places: 2023 9 · 2024 9 · 2025 9 · 2026 10
- Sixth form: No
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: Does not apply
- Nursery provision: Yes
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 204
- % eligible for free school meals: 56.8%
- Pupil mix: 8 in 10 (more mixed than the Leeds average)
- English as an additional language: 41% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 20.6% a year (Leeds 14.8%, typical in England 13.9%)
- Where they went: about 24% moved to another school, 76% 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: 8.2%
- Persistently absent pupils: 28.5%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
No dedicated Unit or Resourced Provision
- Pupils on SEN Support: 24.0%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 1.5%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Speech, language and communications needs: 65 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 14 pupils
- Other difficulty or disability: 5 pupils
- Specific learning difficulty: 3 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 2 pupils
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Speech, language and communications needs: 2 pupils
- Specific learning difficulty: 2 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 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 Needs attention
- Personal development and wellbeing Expected standard
- Early years Needs attention
- 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: 31% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 2% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: 30 percentage points below the Leeds average (61%)
- Compared with schools with similar pupils: Below (3-year average 43% against an expected 53%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 43%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 44% · Writing 51% · Maths 44% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 39%
- Average test scores: reading 100, maths 97
- Based on: 61 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 210th of 214 junior and primary schools in the area
- =210Bankside Primary School31%
- =210Queensway Primary School31%
- =210Wykebeck Primary School31%
- #213Temple Learning Academy23%
- #214Micklefield Church of England Primary Academy17%
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £7,871 (2024-25)
49th of 214 primary schools in Leeds for spending per pupil
- #47Harewood Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School£7,909
- #48Bramley St Peter's Church of England Primary School£7,896
- #49Wykebeck Primary School£7,871
- #50Cross Gates Primary School£7,850
- #51Hawksworth Church of England Primary School£7,847
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