West End Primary School, Leeds
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
West End Primary School excels at maintaining strong leadership and high expectations despite staffing changes, ensuring all teachers manage behaviour consistently and pupils take pride in their neat presentation. The school offers a broad, balanced curriculum enriched by music specialists, visiting experts, and topic-linked activities that inspire pupil engagement and writing. Parents highly value the approachable leadership team, improved school facilities, and the safe, happy environment created for children.
Key Strengths
- Strong leadership that has successfully embedded high expectations for handwriting and presentation across the school
- Good quality teaching maintained despite recent staff changes, with effective staff induction ensuring consistency
- Broad and balanced curriculum enhanced by music specialists, visitors, and topic-linked enrichment activities
- Effective safeguarding systems with thorough risk assessments and responsive support for pupils needing extra help
- Good progress being made by most pupils across the curriculum with improved monitoring by middle leaders
Areas for Improvement
- Girls still not making strong enough progress in mathematics, particularly at the higher standard
- Reading books in key stage 1 not matched well enough to pupils' phonics knowledge, limiting fluency and confidence
- Lower-attaining pupils and those with special educational needs not practising reading frequently enough
- Mathematics lessons sometimes lack sufficient challenge for pupils of all abilities
- Need to sharpen focus of monitoring schedule to target specific pupil-progress priorities
Safeguarding
Safeguarding is effective with thorough risk assessments, robust systems for staff to report concerns, strong partnerships with external agencies, and all staff knowing how to raise child protection concerns.
Extracurricular Activities
School orchestra, recorder lessons, keyboard club, daily mile, skipping club, visits from specialists linked to topic work
West End Primary School continues to be good. The new leadership team has maintained good quality education despite substantial staffing changes, with parents appreciating the improvements made to the school grounds, site security, and the approachable leadership.
At a Glance
2.9%
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 remained stable at around 90%. Maths has improved from 84% to 93%. Writing has improved from 88% to 93%.
Class Sizes
28.8
Avg class size
30.0
Infant (KS1)
28.3
KS2
6
Total classes
2024/25 academic year
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Capacity & Demand
School Occupancy
114%
Over capacity
274 pupils
240 capacity
34 places over capacity
Area Demand Pressure - Leeds
Based on MHCLG housing supply data for Leeds
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 Absence2024/25
3.10341%
Overall absence
4.78469%
Persistent absence
209
Enrolments
Absence trend
Source: DfE pupil absence statistics. Persistent absence = pupils missing 10%+ sessions.
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