Park Spring Primary School, Leeds
Data last updated 11 Sept 2026
Location
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Key Information
DfE GIASOfsted Rating
Ofsted · 3 months agoReport card - no overall grade (new Ofsted framework from Sep 2024)
Ofsted Insights
What This School Does Well
Park Spring Primary School is a caring environment where pupils feel safe and happy. The school excels at supporting pupils with additional needs through well-trained staff and specialist provisions, and has successfully improved reading outcomes in younger year groups. Leaders and staff genuinely care about each pupil and work with families with empathy and understanding.
Key Strengths
- Strong safeguarding culture where all staff take responsibility and pupils feel safe
- Effective support for pupils with SEND through specialist staff training and internal provisions like The Learning Zone and The Hive
- Improved phonics teaching in early years and Year 1, with pupils now performing in line with national expectations
- Caring, inclusive approach that ensures vulnerable pupils and disadvantaged pupils are supported and included
- Wide range of enrichment activities and educational experiences to broaden pupils' horizons
Areas for Improvement
- Year 6 pupils underperforming in reading, writing and mathematics compared to national standards
- Poor handwriting, spelling and sentence construction skills are not being addressed consistently across the school
- Teaching is not consistently adapted to meet individual pupils' needs and misconceptions are not always corrected
- Behaviour policy recently revised but not being implemented consistently across all classrooms
- Early years curriculum lacks clear sequencing of key knowledge, leaving some children unprepared for Year 1
Safeguarding
Safeguarding standards are met - leaders have established an open culture where safeguarding is everyone's responsibility and concerns are actively identified and managed.
Extracurricular Activities
Ice-skating, football, bicycle safety training, educational visits to farms and wildlife parks, outdoor play activities including woodland exploration and den building
Park Spring Primary School is a caring community school that prioritises pupil wellbeing and has made improvements in early reading. However, the school needs to address inconsistencies in teaching quality and gaps in pupils' foundational knowledge that are affecting achievement in older year groups.
At a Glance
32.4%
Free School Meals
No
Boarding
Yes
Nursery
No
Sixth Form
No
Special Measures
Primary Performance (KS2)
Academic year 2025/26KS2 Results (% meeting expected standard)
Reading has improved from 59% to 65%. Maths has remained stable at around 61%. Writing has declined from 68% to 61%.
Class Sizes
26.6
Avg class size
24.5
Infant (KS1)
27.9
KS2
11
Total classes
2024/25 academic year
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Capacity & Demand
School Occupancy
75%
Available places
355 pupils
472 capacity
117 spare places available
Area Demand Pressure - Leeds
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Admissions Demand - Leeds
Places available
10,239
Applications
8,283
Got 1st preference
93.1%
Got preferred school
99.3%
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Pupil Absence2024/25
6.28062%
Overall absence
18.9911%
Persistent absence
337
Enrolments
Absence trend
Source: DfE pupil absence statistics. Persistent absence = pupils missing 10%+ sessions.
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