Greenside Primary School, Pudsey
Data last updated 11 Sept 2026
Location
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Key Information
DfE GIASOfsted Rating
Ofsted · 2 years agoOverall
Ofsted Insights
What This School Does Well
Greenside Primary School excels at creating a warm, caring and nurturing environment where children feel safe and secure. The school offers a rich and varied curriculum with excellent enrichment activities that develop children's confidence, creativity and resilience. Staff are dedicated and supportive, with particularly good support for newly qualified teachers.
Key Strengths
- Leaders have created a caring, safe and secure school with high attendance and low persistent absence
- Children make good progress in early years with achievement above national average
- The curriculum is broad, balanced and provides rich enrichment activities including gardening, cooking, dance, and music
- Personal development, behaviour and welfare are good with strong focus on resilience and perseverance
- Special educational needs pupils are well supported with effective use of additional funding
Areas for Improvement
- Teaching is not consistently challenging - pupils sometimes find work too easy and progress in reading, maths and writing remains patchy
- Teachers lack confidence in assessing pupils' achievement, particularly in writing, leading to inaccurate assessments
- School improvement plans lack sharp focus on pupil progress with unclear timescales for actions
- Governors do not play a strong enough strategic role in questioning leaders about school performance
- Pupil premium funding is not used effectively to accelerate progress for disadvantaged pupils
Safeguarding
No specific safeguarding effectiveness statement provided in the report.
Extracurricular Activities
Gardening, cooking, dance, finger knitting, music, road running, mini Olympics, mini triathlons
Greenside Primary School requires improvement overall. While leaders have created a caring, safe school ethos with good attendance, teaching is not consistently good enough and pupils do not make adequate progress, particularly in writing.
At a Glance
13.1%
Free School Meals
No
Boarding
No
Nursery
No
Sixth Form
No
Special Measures
Primary Performance (KS2)
Academic year 2025/26KS2 Results (% meeting expected standard)
Reading has remained stable at around 74%. Maths has improved from 74% to 82%. Writing has improved from 67% to 71%.
Class Sizes
27.4
Avg class size
27.5
Infant (KS1)
27.3
KS2
8
Total classes
1 class with more than 30 pupils
2024/25 academic year
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Capacity & Demand
School Occupancy
84%
Available places
274 pupils
325 capacity
51 spare places available
Area Demand Pressure - Pudsey
Based on MHCLG housing supply data for Pudsey
Admissions Demand - Leeds
Places available
10,239
Applications
8,283
Got 1st preference
93.1%
Got preferred school
99.3%
Primary admissions across Leeds (2025/26)
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Pupil Demographics
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School Funding
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Pupil Absence2024/25
3.96633%
Overall absence
8.17121%
Persistent absence
257
Enrolments
Absence trend
Source: DfE pupil absence statistics. Persistent absence = pupils missing 10%+ sessions.
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