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St Bartholomew's CofE Voluntary Controlled Primary School

Primary · Leeds · LS12 1SF

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Quality of education: GoodBehaviour & attitudes: GoodPersonal development: GoodLeadership & management: GoodSafeguarding effective: Yes

Inspected 10 December 2024

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At a glance

497 pupils · 89% of 558 capacity

School type
Voluntary controlled school
Age range
3–11
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
Church of England
Free school meals
40.1% of pupils
English as additional language
32.1% of pupils
SEN support
20.3% of pupils
EHC plan
0.6% of pupils
Nursery
Yes
Website
www.st-bartholomews.leeds.sch.uk/
URN
108005

Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026

0.96 first-choice applications per place

45 places offered · 43 first-choice applications · roughly balanced

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

Every applicant was offered a place for 2026 entry, so distance was not needed to decide places.

Last child offered a place under the distance criterion (2025 entry, the most recent year with a distance-only cutoff) lived within 1.678 miles

measured in a straight line.

Cutoff distance by entry year

19
24
25

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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.

Key stage 2 results (2024/2025)

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

Reaching the expected standard in reading, writing & maths
53%
England 62%
Reaching the higher standard
9%
England 8%
Average scaled score (reading)
104
England 106
Average scaled score (maths)
104
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 school53%
Median of its 12 closest peers61.5%
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
Whingate Primary SchoolLeeds · under 1 mile awayGood50%
Sutton Road Primary SchoolMansfield · 48 miles awayNot yet graded60%
William Stockton Community Primary SchoolEllesmere Port · 65 miles awayNot yet graded63%
Meadowfield Primary SchoolLeeds · 4 miles awayGood49%
Sneyd AcademyStoke-on-Trent · 58 miles awayGood56%
Christ The King Catholic Primary SchoolBirmingham · 87 miles awayOutstanding80%
Brandhall Primary SchoolOldbury · 93 miles awayGood73%
Stoke Heath Primary SchoolCoventry · 95 miles awayGood68%
St Mary's Roman Catholic Primary School, MiddletonManchester · 30 miles awayGood48%
Pegasus SchoolOxford · 144 miles awayGood63%
Huntingdon AcademyNottingham · 60 miles awayOutstanding93%
The Beacon Church of England Primary SchoolLiverpool · 62 miles awayOutstanding58%

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)
5.6%
England 6.5%
Pupils missing 10%+ of sessions (persistent absence)
18.7%
England 18.1%

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

Staffing

Pupils per qualified teacher
20.4
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£7,837
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)
2/10among the most deprived fifth of England
Overall deprivation (IMD)
1/10among the most 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 higher23.5%33.9%
Adults with no qualifications33%18.1%
In managerial or professional work14.2%33.2%
Households deprived in two or more ways36.4%18.1%
Residents in very good health45%48.5%
Homes owned by the occupier15.3%62.3%
Social housing54.4%17.1%
Privately rented29.9%20.5%
Detached houses2.5%22.9%
Flats58.2%22.2%
Homes with four or more bedrooms9.4%21.1%
Households with no car or van61.2%23.5%

Census 2021 (ONS) for statistical area E01011292 (a lower layer super output area), the neighbourhood of roughly 1,526 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
£140,000294 sales within 1 km, January 2024 to July 2026
Typical range
£119,000–£171,500the middle half of sales
England median
£300,000all sales over the same period
Detached (10)£330,000
Semi-detached (65)£185,000
Terraced (186)£138,500
Flat (33)£100,000

Homes around this school are among the cheapest tenth of school neighbourhoods in England, comparing the median within 1 km across every state school.

Inside the Reception cutoff distance (2.70 km, 2025 entry): 1,932 sales, median £180,000. 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
5an urban school averages 2.0
Collisions at school-run times
3an urban school averages 5.8
All reported collisions
42an urban school averages 30.6
Of those, serious or fatal
16an 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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