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Swillington Primary School

Primary Ages 3-11 210 pupils Leeds
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Swillington Primary School is an academy converter in Leeds for pupils aged 3 to 11. It has 210 pupils on roll. In 2025, 55% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

KS2 results: 2025.

Type Primary / Academy converter
Age Range 3-11
Religion Unknown
Address Church Lane
Swillington
Leeds
West Yorkshire
LS26 8DX
Phone 01132863220
Reference Number 143239

General Makeup

Number of pupils 210
Boy/Girl ratio Boys: 45.24%
Girls: 54.76%
Percentage of students eligible for free school meals 29.9%
Percentage of students where English is not their first language 1.9%

Class Sizes

Average size of one teacher classes 25.8
Average size of Key Stage 1 classes taught by one teacher 26
Average size of Key Stage 2 classes taught by one teacher 27.3

Year Groups

Year Boys Girls Total
1 8 14 22
2 16 11 27
3 9 20 29
4 12 16 28
5 13 15 28
6 11 13 24

Ethnicities

Ethnicity Percentage
White, British 89%
White & Black (Caribbean) 4.3%
Mixed, Other 3.8%
White, Other 1%
Chinese 0.5%
White & Asian 0.5%
Unclassified 0.5%
African 0.5%

Overall Ofsted Rating
Last Report Date 10 Jul 2024 – no overall grade published for this inspection
Date Report
10 Jul 2024 School inspection
14 May 2019 Short inspection
06 Sep 2016 Academy conversion letter
11 Nov 2015 Full inspection:
Previously as Swillington Primary School
01 Apr 2014 Monitoring visit
27 Nov 2013 Full inspection:
09 Jan 2012 Interim assessment
28 Sep 2009 Curriculum and development visit
01 Oct 2008 Full inspection:
04 Jul 2005 Full inspection

How many students meet the standards

Reading, Writing & Maths School Score Percentile (local) Percentile (nationwide)
Pupils meeting the expected standard 55%
Pupils meeting a higher standard 3%

Average Scaled Score

Results are converted into scaled scores to allow accurate comparisons of performance over time even if the difficulty of the test varies over time. Scaled scores range from 80 to 120.

Subject School Percentile (local) Percentile (nationwide)
Reading 103
Maths 104

Progress Scores

A progress score is a way to measure how well a student progressed in comparison to other students of a similar starting ability. A score of zero means would mean that a student made the same progress as others that had a similar starting a ability. A positive score would mean that the student made more progress than other students of similar starting ability. The scores below are for the whole school so is the average progress score across all students.

Metric School Score Percentile (local) Percentile (nationwide)
Reading -1.9
Writing 2
Maths 0.1

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Average Scaled Score

Results are converted into scaled scores to allow accurate comparisons of performance over time even if the difficulty of the test varies over time. Scaled scores range from 80 to 120.

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Progress Scores

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Reception admissions, 2026 entry

Number of Applications Number of Offers
First Preference
Second Preference 6 1
Third Preference 15 1
From another Local Authority 3 1

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Places and pupil numbers

In 2024–25 Swillington Primary School had 184 pupils for 210 places. 26 places (12.4%) were unfilled.

Pupils and places

Reception intake in the “Lower Aire Valley” planning area

Leeds counted 168 Reception pupils in this area in 2024–25 and forecasts 148 in 2029–30, down 12%.

20172018201920212022202320242025
Places 210210210210210210210210
Pupils 186176180165169176173184
Unfilled 11.4%16.2%14.3%21.4%19.5%16.2%17.6%12.4%

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 Swillington Primary School attended 94.3% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 14.3% of pupils were persistently absent, missing at least one session in ten (nationally 13.0%).

Sessions missed

Pupils persistently absent

20172018201920212022202320242025
Authorised absence 2.6%1.7%2.3%2.2%4.6%5.0%4.1%4.2%
Unauthorised absence 0.7%1.6%1.5%0.5%1.3%1.5%1.6%1.5%
Severely absent pupils 0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.6%0.0%1.2%

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 Swillington Primary School were suspended at least once (nationally 1.1%). No pupils were permanently excluded.

Pupils suspended at least once

201720182019202020212022202320242025
Suspensions per 100 pupils 0.00.00.00.01.11.63.94.10.5
Permanent exclusions 000000000

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 Swillington Primary School had 19.4 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 14.5% were no longer at the school a year later (nationally 15.7%).

Pupils per teacher

Teachers who left the school within a year

2017201820192020202120222023202420252026
Pupils per adult 10.311.613.211.610.19.610.78.99.69.9
Teachers who left state teaching 26.8%24.7%16.4%0.0%7.4%23.0%0.0%8.2%5.5%–
Teachers who took any sick leave –44.4%37.5%–16.7%53.8%75.0%53.8%64.3%–
Sick days per teacher –0.815.1–0.71.82.37.03.9–

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, 20.5% of pupils at Swillington 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

SEN support EHC plan
Speech, language and communication needs 17 2
Social, emotional and mental health 16 0
Autistic spectrum disorder 5 6
Moderate learning difficulty 3 0
No specialist assessment of need 1 0
Vision impairment 1 0

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 Swillington Primary School received £7,637 and spent £6,938 for each of its 204 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £181,000 (£892 per pupil).

Across all 7 schools of The Brigshaw Learning Partnership, income was £7,810 and spending £7,039 per pupil.

Income per pupil

Spending per pupil

2019202020212022202320242025
Revenue reserve £41,000£75,000£139,000£211,000£230,000£269,000£181,000
per pupil £206£407£746£1,131£1,168£1,423£892
In-year balance -£27,000£42,000£83,000£125,000£18,000£38,000£142,000
per pupil -£137£226£446£670£92£203£699

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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1.48 miles
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Oulton Primary School
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2.14 miles
Whitkirk Primary School
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St Benedict's Catholic Primary School
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2.28 miles
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2.36 miles
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2.5 miles
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2.53 miles
Holy Trinity Church of England Academy, Rothwell
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2.71 miles
Templenewsam Halton Primary School
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2.73 miles
Rothwell St Mary's RC Primary School
Royds Lane, Rothwell, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS26 0BJ
2.73 miles
East Garforth Primary Academy
Aberford Road, East Garforth, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS25 2HF
2.84 miles
Cockburn Haigh Road Academy
Haigh Road, Rothwell, Leeds, LS26 0NQ
2.9 miles
Name Distance
Garforth Academy
Lidgett Lane, Garforth, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS25 1LJ
1.63 miles
Brigshaw High School
Brigshaw Lane, Allerton Bywater, Castleford, West Yorkshire, WF10 2HR
1.73 miles
Temple Moor High School
Field End Grove, Selby Road, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS15 0PT
2.56 miles
Oulton Academy
Pennington Lane, Oulton, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS26 8EX
2.8 miles
Temple Learning Academy
Neville Road, Leeds, LS15 0NN
3.13 miles
John Smeaton Academy
Barwick Road, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS15 8TA
3.24 miles
Corpus Christi Catholic College, A Voluntary Academy
Neville Road, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS9 0TT
3.32 miles
The Grange School
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3.59 miles
The Pivot Academy LS East
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Leeds East Academy
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3.61 miles
Co-op Academy Brierley
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4.16 miles
Bishop Young Church of England Academy
Bishops Way, Seacroft, Bishop Young C of E Academy, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS14 6NU
4.22 miles
Rodillian Academy
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4.32 miles
Castleford Academy
Ferrybridge Road, Castleford, West Yorkshire, WF10 4JQ
4.36 miles
Broomfield South SILC
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4.37 miles
Springwell Leeds Academy
Middleton Road, Leeds, LS10 3JA
4.39 miles
Trinity Academy Leeds
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4.45 miles
Mount St Mary's Catholic High School
Ellerby Road, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS9 8LA
4.74 miles
Co-op Academy Leeds
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4.78 miles
John Jamieson School
Hollin Hill Drive, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS8 2PW
4.85 miles

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Swillington Primary School is part of The Brigshaw Learning Partnership, which runs 7 schools. The nearest others:

How many pupils does Swillington Primary School have?

Swillington Primary School has 210 pupils on roll.

What age range does Swillington Primary School cover?

Swillington Primary School for pupils aged 3 to 11.

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

In 2025, 55% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Swillington Primary School?

Swillington Primary School is at Church Lane, Swillington, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS26 8DX.

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