Bradway Primary School

Bradway Primary School continues to uphold its status as a good school, offering a warm and engaging environment where pupils are enthusiastic about learning. The staff is highly dedicated, effectively preparing students, including those with special educational needs and disabilities, for academic success. While the school excels particularly in sports and drama, and addresses bullying incidents appropriately, challenges remain in attendance and assessment practices for foundation subjects. Leaders are actively working with families and external agencies to improve attendance rates and ensure consistent assessment methods across the curriculum.

Strengths

• Pupils feel safe and happy at school.
• Staff are passionate and engage students effectively.
• Strong leadership is committed to providing a high-quality education.
• High expectations for behavior create a calm learning environment.
• Excellent support for pupils with special educational needs.
• Effective early reading program that helps children become confident readers.
• Strong emphasis on extra-curricular activities that build confidence and teamwork.

Areas for Improvement

• Some pupils are persistently absent, affecting their learning.
• Assessment in foundation subjects is less effective than in core subjects.

Admissions: local authority offers data from the Department for Education. A school is oversubscribed when at least 5% of the families who put it first were not offered a place, and undersubscribed when everyone who put it first got in but 10% or more of its places were unfilled in the Department's school capacity survey (the latest survey is used for entry years it does not cover). Places: Department for Education, School capacity, from local authorities' annual survey as at 1 May. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024–25); the survey was not run in 2020. Places include sixth form places. Forecasts are the local authority's own for the school's planning area, an area it uses to plan places that is not the school's catchment area. The forecast starts from a head count in 2025; the dashed line is the Department's estimate of places in that area, including those the authority has firm plans for. Planned places are cumulative, and only those with firm plans are counted.

In 2024–25 pupils at Bradway Primary School attended 95.4% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 10.2% of pupils were persistently absent, missing at least one session in ten (nationally 13.0%).

Sessions missed

Pupils persistently absent

Source: Department for Education, Pupil absence in schools in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). Persistent absence means missing 10% or more of sessions; severe absence means 50% or more. No figures were published for 2019/20.

In 2024–25, 1.2% of pupils at Bradway Primary School were suspended at least once (nationally 1.1%). No pupils were permanently excluded.

Pupils suspended at least once

Source: Department for Education, Suspensions and permanent exclusions in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). A pupil can be suspended more than once, so suspensions per 100 pupils can be higher than the share of pupils suspended. Very small numbers are hidden by the DfE. Exclusion figures dropped in 2020 and 2021 because of school closures.

In 2025–26 Bradway Primary School had 22.9 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 14.9% were no longer at the school a year later (nationally 15.7%).

Pupils per teacher

Teachers who left the school within a year

Source: Department for Education, School workforce in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). Pupils per teacher counts full-time-equivalent pupils and teachers. Turnover is the share of a year's teachers (full-time equivalent) who were not at the school the following year, whether they moved to another school or left state-funded teaching. Turnover and sickness figures run one year behind the ratios. Sick leave is the share of teachers who took at least one day in the year, so it swings widely at small schools, where a few teachers can make it 0% or 100%. The national figures are for all state schools of the same type.

In 2025–26, 11.8% of pupils at Bradway Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 3.8% had an education, health and care (EHC) plan (nationally 4.1%).

Pupils by main type of need

Source: Department for Education, Special educational needs in England (the 2025–26 school census). SEN support is extra help in school without an EHC plan. National figures are for all state-funded primary schools. Counts are as published, with small numbers not hidden.

In 2025–26 Bradway Primary School received £5,957 and spent £6,429 for each of its 416 pupils. It ended the year with a deficit of £150,000 (-£360 per pupil).

Income per pupil

Spending per pupil

Source: Department for Education, Financial Benchmarking and Insights Tool. Each year is the one the financial year ends in (2024 is 2023–24).

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What is Bradway Primary School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Bradway Primary School is Good, from an inspection in September 2022.

When was Bradway Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

Bradway Primary School was last inspected in September 2022.

How many pupils does Bradway Primary School have?

Bradway Primary School has 416 pupils on roll.

What age range does Bradway Primary School cover?

Bradway Primary School for pupils aged 5 to 11.

What are Bradway Primary School's SATs (KS2) results?

In 2025, 62% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Bradway Primary School?

Bradway Primary School is at Bradway Drive, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, S17 4PD.