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Farsley Springbank Primary School

Primary · Pudsey · LS28 5LE

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Good

Earlier grade, confirmed by a later ungraded inspection

Ofsted's most recent (ungraded) visit confirmed the school remains Good. Ungraded inspections do not award a new grade.

Inspected 13 October 2022

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At a glance

417 pupils · 99% of 420 capacity

School type
Community school
Age range
4–11
Gender
Mixed
Free school meals
3.6% of pupils
English as additional language
1.4% of pupils
SEN support
12.9% of pupils
EHC plan
0% of pupils
Website
www.farsleyspringbank.co.uk
URN
107849

Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026

1.30 first-choice applications per place

60 places offered · 78 first-choice applications · oversubscribed

First-choice applications per place, by entry year

19/20
20/21
21/22
22/23
23/24
24/25
25/26
26/27

Applications and offers on national offer day, DfE. A ratio above 1.00 means more families named this school first choice than there were places.

Admissions cutoff distance: Reception

The council did not publish a cutoff distance for 2017 entry.

Last child offered a place under the distance criterion (2015 entry, the most recent year with a distance-only cutoff) lived within 0.751 miles

measured in a straight line.

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Cutoff distances as published by the local authority. Siblings and other priority groups are offered places first; cutoffs move year to year.

Admissions cutoff distance: Year 3

The council did not publish a cutoff distance for 2026 entry.

Cutoff by admission criterion (2018 entry)

Nearest school
0.41 miles

2018 is the most recent year we hold a cutoff for this school. It describes that year, not 2026.

Cutoff distances as published by the local authority. Siblings and other priority groups are offered places first; cutoffs move year to year.

Key stage 2 results (2024/2025)

60 pupils at the end of key stage 2 in 2024/2025

Reaching the expected standard in reading, writing & maths
75%
England 62%
Reaching the higher standard
18%
England 8%
Average scaled score (reading)
106
England 106
Average scaled score (maths)
109
England 105

Source: DfE performance tables 2024/2025. “Suppressed” means the DfE withholds figures for very small cohorts.

Schools with a similar intake

Meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 2024/2025

This school75%
Median of its 12 closest peers78.5%
Leeds average64.2%
England62%

On meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, this school is behind the schools that teach a comparable intake.

The twelve below are matched on intake alone, from every state school in England, so most are not local. They are the evidence behind the comparison above, not a shortlist. For schools you could realistically apply to, see nearby schools.

SchoolOfstedResult
Straits Primary SchoolDudley · 91 miles awayGood69%
Our Lady's Bishop Eton Catholic Primary SchoolLiverpool · 58 miles awayGood77%
Tranmere Park Primary SchoolLeeds · 5 miles awayGood88%
Calverley Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary SchoolCalverley · 1 miles awayGood63%
Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary AcademyLeeds · 6 miles awayGood87%
Compton CofE Primary SchoolPlymouth · 258 miles awayGood (2016)86%
Burnside Primary SchoolCramlington · 89 miles awayGood80%
Shenfield St. Mary's Church of England Primary SchoolBrentwood · 172 miles awayOutstanding93%
Hempstead Junior SchoolGillingham · 195 miles awayGood72%
King Charles Church of England Primary SchoolFalmouth · 292 miles awayExpected standard74%
Elmlea Junior SchoolBristol · 166 miles awayOutstanding83%
Rawdon St Peter's Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary SchoolLeeds · 3 miles awayGood63%

The 12 state schools in England whose intake most closely matches this one: same phase and admissions type, and as near as the data allows on size, free school meals, English as an additional language, SEN and the child poverty of the surrounding area (IDACI 2025). Matching uses only characteristics a school does not choose. It is not a ranking, and a close match on intake does not make two schools interchangeable: sixth form, faith character, admissions rules and plain geography all matter and are not in the calculation. Results: DfE performance tables, 2024/2025. How the matching works.

Attendance (2025/26 autumn term)

Sessions missed (overall absence)
3.3%
England 6.5%
Pupils missing 10%+ of sessions (persistent absence)
5.3%
England 18.1%

Autumn-term absence, DfE pupil absence data. Lower is better.

Staffing

Pupils per qualified teacher
22.4
England 18.5

Full-time-equivalent, 2025/26.

Teacher retention (2024/25)

100% of teachers stayed at the school the following year

School Workforce Census, DfE. The ratio counts full-time-equivalent qualified teachers; retention follows teachers in post one November to the next. Open Government Licence v3.0.

Spending per pupil

This school£5,842
Typical primary school£6,959

Total expenditure ÷ pupils, council-maintained school finance return (DfE Schools Financial Benchmarking, latest year). Higher spending is not a measure of quality. It often reflects greater pupil need or a smaller school. Open Government Licence v3.0.

Inspection history since 2015

Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.

The area around the school

Child poverty (IDACI)
10/10among the least deprived tenth of England
Overall deprivation (IMD)
10/10among the least deprived tenth of England

English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (MHCLG), decile of the small area the school stands in: 1 is the most deprived tenth of England, 10 the least. IDACI counts only children in low-income families, which is the measure closest to the intake a school is likely to draw on.

Census 2021This areaEngland
Adults with a degree or higher40.3%33.9%
Adults with no qualifications11.2%18.1%
In managerial or professional work47.5%33.2%
Households deprived in two or more ways6.7%18.1%
Residents in very good health54.2%48.5%
Homes owned by the occupier83.7%62.3%
Social housing1.2%17.1%
Privately rented15.1%20.5%
Detached houses25.8%22.9%
Flats13.9%22.2%
Homes with four or more bedrooms28.2%21.1%
Households with no car or van10.7%23.5%

Census 2021 (ONS) for statistical area E01011593 (a lower layer super output area), the neighbourhood of roughly 1,602 adults that the school stands in. These figures describe the area, not the pupils. Children travel in from further away, and for selective, faith and some other schools usually much further. Open Government Licence v3.0.

What homes cost nearby

Median sale price
£234,000468 sales within 1 km, January 2024 to July 2026
Typical range
£180,000–£310,000the middle half of sales
England median
£300,000all sales over the same period
Detached (58)£382,500
Semi-detached (134)£269,000
Terraced (215)£221,000
Flat (61)£142,000

Homes around this school are cheaper than most school neighbourhoods in England, comparing the median within 1 km across every state school.

Inside the Reception cutoff distance (1.21 km, 2015 entry): 601 sales, median £232,500. The homes that would have got a child in that year, at the straight-line distance the school last filled to.

Every residential sale registered with HM Land Registry within 1 km of the school (straight line) since January 2024, market sales of houses and flats only. A sale is dated by completion and registered weeks later, so the most recent months are incomplete. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Postcodes located with OS Code-Point Open: contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026; contains Royal Mail data © Royal Mail copyright and database right 2026; contains National Statistics data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Roads around the school

Child pedestrian casualties
2an urban school averages 2.0
Collisions at school-run times
1an urban school averages 5.8
All reported collisions
16an urban school averages 30.6
Of those, serious or fatal
5an urban school averages 6.1

Every collision reported to the police within 500 m of the school in 2021–2025, from the Department for Transport's road casualty statistics (STATS19). "Child pedestrians" counts casualties aged under 16 on foot; "school-run times" means weekdays 07:30–09:00 and 15:00–16:30 outside August. A high count usually says the school sits on or near a busy road, not that the school is unsafe: counts rise with traffic and with how built-up an area is, which is why the comparison is with other urban schools. Distances are straight-line from the school's recorded position. Open Government Licence v3.0.

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