Hovingham Primary School
Primary · Leeds · LS8 3QY
Data updated
Graded inspection under the pre-November 2025 system
This is an overall-effectiveness grade from the previous inspection framework. The school has not yet had a report-card inspection.
Inspected 27 February 2024
Read the Ofsted report ↗At a glance
669 pupils · 88% of 764 capacity (January 2026 census)
- School type
- Academy converter
- Age range
- 2–11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Free school meals
- 47.7% of pupils (January 2026)
- Nursery
- Yes
- Website
- www.hovingham.leeds.sch.uk
- URN
- 151945
In figures
For September 2026 entry, 37 families named it first for 39 Reception places, 0.95 first choices per place. Its last Reception place offered on distance for 2015 entry went to 0.479 miles; distance decided places in 2 of the 21 years of Reception rounds we hold, 2006 to 2026. Ofsted last graded it Requires improvement on 27 February 2024, under the framework used before November 2025. In the 2025/26 autumn and spring terms its pupils missed 13.8% of sessions, against 6.6% across England.
Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026
0.95 first-choice applications per place39 places offered · 37 first-choice applications · roughly balanced
Source: DfE applications and offers on national offer day · how demand is measured
Catchment area
Catchment area: not named in the council's figures. Every applicant was offered a place for 2026 entry, so distance was not needed to decide 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 (2015 entry, the most recent year with a distance-only cutoff) lived within 0.479 miles
measured in a straight line.
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Source: the admissions authority's published figures · how cutoffs work
Compare admissions across the area: Leeds school admissions · the wider Leeds authority
Pupils by ethnicity (January 2026)
White Gypsy/Roma 45% (Leeds 1%, England 0%) · Asian Pakistani 24% (Leeds 6%, England 5%) · Any other ethnic group 10% (Leeds 3%, England 3%) · Black African 8% (Leeds 9%, England 5%) · Asian Bangladeshi 4% (Leeds 1%, England 2%) · Any other White background 3% (Leeds 5%, England 7%) · White British 2% (Leeds 57%, England 60%) · Any other Mixed background 1% (Leeds 3%, England 3%) · Any other Asian background 1% (Leeds 3%, England 2%) · other groups together 1%
Source: DfE schools, pupils and their characteristics, January 2026 census · how to read these figures
Attendance (2025/26 autumn and spring terms)
Source: DfE pupil absence data, autumn and spring terms · how absence is measured
Staffing
Full-time-equivalent, 2025/26.
Vacancies (November 2025)
0% of teaching posts vacant, 0% filled temporarily · England, primary academies: 0.3% vacant, 0.32% temporary
Teacher pay (November 2025)
Mean salary of full-time qualified teachers £48,217; 18.8% on the leadership pay range · England, primary schools: £50,856, 17.3%
Source: DfE School Workforce Census · how these figures are counted
The area around the school
- Child poverty (IDACI)
- 1/10among the most deprived tenth of England
- Overall deprivation (IMD)
- 1/10among the most deprived tenth of England
| Census 2021 | This area | England |
|---|---|---|
| Adults with a degree or higher | 19% | 33.9% |
| Adults with no qualifications | 34.4% | 18.1% |
| In managerial or professional work | 10.6% | 33.2% |
| Households deprived in two or more ways | 38.6% | 18.1% |
| Residents in very good health | 48.4% | 48.5% |
| Homes owned by the occupier | 37.9% | 62.3% |
| Social housing | 44.3% | 17.1% |
| Privately rented | 16.8% | 20.5% |
| Detached houses | 5.7% | 22.9% |
| Flats | 10.6% | 22.2% |
| Homes with four or more bedrooms | 24.7% | 21.1% |
| Households with no car or van | 41.3% | 23.5% |
These figures describe the area, not the pupils. Source: Census 2021 (ONS) and English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (MHCLG) for small area E01011427 · how to read area figures
What homes cost nearby
- Median sale price
- £150,000457 sales within 1 km, January 2024 to September 2026
- Typical range
- £113,500–£240,000the middle half of sales
- England median
- £300,000all sales over the same period
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 (0.77 km, 2015 entry): 257 sales, median £142,000. The homes that would have got a child in that year, at the straight-line distance the school last filled to.
Source: HM Land Registry sales within 1 km since January 2024 · how sales are counted. 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
- 14an urban school averages 2.0
- Collisions at school-run times
- 16an urban school averages 5.7
- All reported collisions
- 74an urban school averages 30.5
- Of those, serious or fatal
- 14an urban school averages 6.1
A high count usually reflects traffic, not an unsafe school. Source: DfT road casualty statistics (STATS19), collisions within 500 m, 2021–2025 · what is counted