Westbrook Lane Primary School

Westbrook Lane Primary School demonstrates a strong standard of education, providing a positive and calm environment where pupils feel safe and valued. The school's safeguarding measures are robust, creating a culture of care and responsibility among staff and pupils alike. While attendance rates are commendable and behavioral expectations are consistently upheld, the school faces challenges in ensuring that all pupils achieve a secure understanding of the curriculum. Some students experience gaps in foundational skills, particularly in writing and handwriting, which hampers their overall academic performance.

Strengths

• Strong safeguarding culture and practices
• Effective attendance monitoring with low persistent absence rates
• Comprehensive early years curriculum fostering independent learning
• Positive behavior management leading to orderly school environment
• Well-trained staff who understand and support pupil needs, including SEND
• Strong partnerships with parents and the community
• Pupils engage in various leadership and community roles
• Consistent staff support for disadvantaged pupils

Areas for Improvement

• Inconsistencies in curriculum implementation affecting pupil knowledge retention
• Variability in teachers' expectations leading to disengagement
• Gaps in pupils' foundational skills, particularly in writing and handwriting
• Assessment use in foundation subjects lacking consistency

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 Westbrook Lane Primary School attended 97.2% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 3.9% 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, 0.0% of pupils at Westbrook Lane 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 Westbrook Lane Primary School had 25.3 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 10.8% 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, 13.7% of pupils at Westbrook Lane 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 Westbrook Lane Primary School received £6,879 and spent £6,870 for each of its 212 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £124,000 (£584 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 Westbrook Lane Primary School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Westbrook Lane Primary School is Needs attention, from an inspection in May 2026.

When was Westbrook Lane Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

Westbrook Lane Primary School was last inspected in May 2026.

How many pupils does Westbrook Lane Primary School have?

Westbrook Lane Primary School has 212 pupils on roll.

What age range does Westbrook Lane Primary School cover?

Westbrook Lane Primary School for pupils aged 4 to 11.

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

In 2025, 67% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Westbrook Lane Primary School?

Westbrook Lane Primary School is at Westbrook Lane, Horsforth, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS18 5AH.