Longroyde Primary School

Longroyde Primary School is a welcoming and ambitious school where pupils feel safe and are proud to attend. Inspectors found effective provision across the curriculum, behaviour, personal development, leadership and early years, with warm relationships, respectful behaviour and a broad curriculum. Reading is a high priority, and pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities access the same curriculum as their peers. The school has experienced recent change and is united in its ambition for pupils to achieve well, with several improvements already having a positive impact. Most pupils behave well and disruption is rare, though a few move off task when work is not well matched to their needs. Attendance has improved recently but remains a concern for some pupils, and leaders' analysis of attendance actions is not sharp enough to accelerate improvement. Leaders do not routinely check the impact of interventions and other actions, including SEND support, and curriculum sequencing is not precise enough in some subjects, leaving gaps in pupils' knowledge. Safeguarding is effective. The school is on a split site, this was its first inspection since the COVID-19 pandemic, and the headteacher took up post in January 2023.

Strengths

• Pupils feel safe and are proud to attend
• Respectful behaviour and warm relationships are evident across the school
• The curriculum is broad and engaging
• Pupils with SEND access the same curriculum as their peers
• Reading is a high priority with effective support for pupils who fall behind
• Early years children settle quickly and learn through meaningful activities
• The new behaviour policy has reduced behavioural incidents
• Pupils benefit from a range of clubs and leadership opportunities
• Personal development is enriched by visits, visitors and assemblies
• Safeguarding arrangements are effective
• Most parents speak positively about recent improvements

Areas for Improvement

• Some pupils attend school too infrequently and miss learning and wider opportunities
• Attendance analysis and evaluation of strategies are not clear enough to improve rates quickly
• The school does not routinely check the impact of interventions and other actions on pupils' learning
• Curriculum sequencing is not specific enough in some subjects, leading to gaps in knowledge
• SEND support strategies are not routinely checked for impact
• Some pupils move off task when learning is not well matched to their needs
• Some parents feel communication needs to improve

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 Longroyde Primary School attended 93.7% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 21.4% 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, 0.5% of pupils at Longroyde 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 Longroyde Primary School had 20.5 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 19.1% 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 Longroyde Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 6.5% 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 Longroyde Primary School received £8,127 and spent £7,622 for each of its 327 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £315,000 (£962 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 Longroyde Primary School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Longroyde Primary School is Good, from an inspection in November 2024.

When was Longroyde Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

Longroyde Primary School was last inspected in November 2024.

How many pupils does Longroyde Primary School have?

Longroyde Primary School has 340 pupils on roll.

What age range does Longroyde Primary School cover?

Longroyde Primary School for pupils aged 2 to 11.

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

In 2025, 59% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Longroyde Primary School?

Longroyde Primary School is at Longroyde Road, Rastrick, Brighouse, West Yorkshire, HD6 3AS.