Home Farm Primary School, Bradford

Ofsted's report card from its 17 March 2026 inspection grades Home Farm Primary School on 7 areas: 6 expected standard and 1 needs attention. Report cards replaced single-word judgements in November 2025, on a five-point scale from exceptional to urgent improvement.

Achievement - Expected standard. "Most pupils typically achieve outcomes in national tests that are in line with national averages by the end of Year 6."

Curriculum and teaching - Expected standard. "Since the previous inspection, leaders have redesigned the wider curriculum so that the key knowledge and vocabulary pupils need to learn and remember are clearly identified."

Early years - Expected standard. "The early years environment is calm and engaging."

Inclusion - Expected standard. "Home Farm is an inclusive school."

Leadership and governance - Expected standard. "Leaders, including those responsible for governance, have a deep understanding of the school's context and the barriers some pupils face."

Personal development and wellbeing - Expected standard. "The school's curriculum for personal, social and health education and relationship education is ambitious and carefully planned."

Attendance and behaviour - Needs attention. "Pupils' attendance remains below the national average."

Safeguarding standards were met.

Ofsted's next steps for the school: "Leaders should continue to review and refine attendance procedures to ensure pupils attend regularly over time"; "Leaders should continue their work to improve the attainment of disadvantaged pupils, with a particular focus on pupils reaching the expected standard across reading, writing and mathematics combined"; "Leaders should further embed the school's approaches to spelling and handwriting to enable pupils to write with more fluency and accuracy".

In 2025, 75% of Year 6 pupils at Home Farm Primary School reached the expected standard in reading and 72% in maths. At the average state primary the figures were 74% and 73% in Bradford and 77% and 75% across England.

Results rose from 58% in reading and 75% in maths in 2024.

For September 2026 entry, 49 families put Home Farm Primary School as their first choice and 109 named it as one of their preferences, for 58 places offered. It had fewer first-choice applications than places. Every family who put it first was offered a place there for 2026 entry.

The nearest other state primary schools to Home Farm Primary School are St John the Evangelist Catholic Primary School (0.4 miles, Good, 76% reading, 60% maths); Stocks Lane Primary School (0.5 miles, Good, 70% reading, 83% maths); Reevy Hill Primary School (0.6 miles, Good, 60% reading, 63% maths); and Farfield Primary and Nursery School (0.7 miles, Good, 86% reading, 86% maths).

Home Farm Primary School's 2025 results were higher than 2 of these 4 schools.

33 parents answered Ofsted's Parent View survey about Home Farm Primary School (as of April 2026): 91% would recommend the school, 97% say their child is happy there and 50% of those with a view say bullying is dealt with well.

The strongest agreement was that their child is happy at the school (97%); the weakest, that the school deals with bullying well (among parents with a view) (50%).

The nearest railway station is Low Moor Rail Station, about 2.6 miles away in a straight line.

13 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Torre Road (opposite), 120 metres away.

In August 2026, police recorded 219 crimes within a mile of the school, most often violence and sexual offences, anti-social behaviour and vehicle crime. That is well below the typical figure around schools in Bradford (404).

In 2024/25, Home Farm Primary School issued 4 suspensions, 0.9 for every 100 pupils (the average state school: 6.3), and no permanent exclusions.

The secondary schools closest to Home Farm Primary School are Buttershaw Business & Enterprise College Academy (0.7 miles) and Trinity Academy Bradford (1.5 miles).