Horton Park Primary School

Horton Park Primary School demonstrates a good level of overall effectiveness, with notable strengths in personal development, where it excels in providing a wide range of educational experiences and promotes strong values among its pupils. The school fosters an inclusive environment for pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND), helping them to thrive both in mainstream classes and in dedicated provisions. Nevertheless, there are opportunities for improvement in specific curriculum areas where clarity about learning goals needs to be enhanced, and attention strategies could be more consistently applied during lessons.

Strengths

• Strong personal development programs that include various educational experiences.
• Effective support for pupils with SEND within both mainstream and specialist provisions.
• Well-structured curriculum that encourages deep revisiting of important knowledge.
• Dedicated and high-morale staff committed to continuous development and pupil welfare.
• Calm and respectful school environment with rare instances of bullying.

Areas for Improvement

• Inconsistent clarity about what knowledge is required in some subjects.
• Phonics lessons sometimes move too quickly, leading to misconceptions.
• Occasional lack of engagement and swift behavior management during lessons.

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 Horton Park Primary School attended 94.2% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 17.4% 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, 1.7% of pupils at Horton Park 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 Horton Park Primary School had 18.1 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 29.6% 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, 23.5% of pupils at Horton Park Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 4.7% had an education, health and care (EHC) plan (nationally 4.1%).

The school has resourced provision with 9 pupils.

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 2024–25 Horton Park Primary School received £8,192 and spent £8,126 for each of its 421 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £792,000 (£1,882 per pupil).

Across all 12 schools of Exceed Academies Trust, income was £8,803 and spending £8,779 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). Academy figures include a share of the trust's central services, shared out by pupil numbers, and are rounded to the nearest £1,000. Premises costs were defined differently from 2024, so compare them across that gap with care.

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All schools in Bradford · Bradford local authority: places and applications

Horton Park Primary School is part of Exceed Academies Trust, which runs 12 schools. The nearest others:

• Copthorne Primary School Bradford
• Horton Grange Primary School Bradford
• Bowling Park Primary School Bradford
• Oastlers School Bradford
• Knowleswood Primary School Bradford
• Appleton Academy Bradford
• Cavendish Primary School Bradford
• Cottingley Village Primary School Bingley
• Holybrook Primary School Bradford
• Baildon Glen Primary School Shipley

What is Horton Park Primary School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Horton Park Primary School is Good, from an inspection in July 2022.

When was Horton Park Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

Horton Park Primary School was last inspected in July 2022.

How many pupils does Horton Park Primary School have?

Horton Park Primary School has 422 pupils on roll.

What age range does Horton Park Primary School cover?

Horton Park Primary School for pupils aged 4 to 11.

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

In 2025, 54% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Horton Park Primary School?

Horton Park Primary School is at Dawnay Road, Bradford, West Yorkshire, BD5 9LQ.