Wakefield Lawefield Primary School
Primary · Wakefield · WF2 8ST
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 26 June 2024
Read the Ofsted report ↗At a glance
437 pupils · 93% of 472 capacity
- School type
- Community school
- Age range
- 3–11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Free school meals
- 30.7% of pupils
- English as additional language
- 60.5% of pupils
- SEN support
- 16.9% of pupils
- EHC plan
- 3.8% of pupils
- Nursery
- Yes
- URN
- 131734
Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026
0.98 first-choice applications per place45 places offered · 44 first-choice applications · roughly balanced
First-choice applications per place, by entry year
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.
Key stage 2 results (2024/2025)
59 pupils at the end of key stage 2 in 2024/2025
Source: DfE performance tables 2024/2025. “Suppressed” means the DfE withholds figures for very small cohorts.
Attendance (2025/26 autumn term)
Autumn-term absence, DfE pupil absence data. Lower is better.
Staffing
Full-time-equivalent, 2025/26.
Teacher retention (2024/25)
94% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 6% moved to another state school
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
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
- 26 March 2019: Good
- 6 March 2018: School remains Good (Concerns) - S5 Next
Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.
Nearby schools
- CAPA College
- Trinity Academy Cathedral
- Wakefield Flanshaw Junior and Infant School
- St Michael's CofE Academy
- Methodist Voluntary Controlled Junior, Infant and Nursery School: With Communication Resource
- The Mount Junior Infant & Nursery School
- Wakefield St Johns Church of England Voluntary Aided Junior and Infant School
- English Martyrs Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy