Baildon Glen Primary School

Baildon Glen Primary School is a rapidly improving sponsor-led academy within Exceed Academies Trust, inspected for the first time under section 5. Leaders and the trust have made decisive changes, including a more ambitious curriculum and higher behaviour expectations, and pupils say they are happy and safe. The school’s early years provision, personal development, and leadership and management are strong, and safeguarding is effective. However, the quality of education and behaviour and attitudes still require improvement. The curriculum is now broad and well designed, reading and phonics are prioritised, and pupils with SEND are identified and supported well. The early years environment is rich in language and stories, and staff morale is high. Recent improvements have not yet had enough time to show fully in published outcomes. Key concerns remain around assessment in some wider curriculum subjects, inconsistent expectations for writing and handwriting, and behaviour that sometimes disrupts learning or worries pupils. Persistent absence is also too high for some groups, particularly some disadvantaged pupils, meaning they do not fully benefit from the improved curriculum.

Strengths

• Leaders have taken decisive action to improve the school
• Governance has an accurate picture of school performance
• Trust provides effective specialist support
• Curriculum is broad, ambitious and well designed
• Reading is prioritised and phonics teaching is strong
• Pupils who struggle with reading get effective extra help
• Pupils with SEND are quickly identified and well supported
• Early years provision is exciting, language-rich and book-focused
• Personal development curriculum is enhanced and adapted well
• Attendance is monitored closely and action is taken swiftly
• Staff morale is high and staff feel well supported
• Safeguarding arrangements are effective

Areas for Improvement

• Assessment checks in some wider curriculum subjects are not fully effective
• Gaps in pupils’ knowledge are not identified or addressed well enough
• Writing tasks sometimes require unsecured skills such as sentence construction
• Expectations of written work and handwriting are not consistently high enough
• Behaviour is not consistently well addressed and can disrupt learning
• Some pupils use inappropriate language and can worry others
• Persistent absence remains too high for some groups, especially disadvantaged pupils
• Curriculum improvements have not yet been reflected in published outcomes

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 Baildon Glen Primary School attended 93.4% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 17.8% 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, 7.1% of pupils at Baildon Glen Primary School were suspended at least once (nationally 1.1%). One pupil was 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 Baildon Glen Primary School had 13.8 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 32.6% 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, 35.2% of pupils at Baildon Glen Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 7.8% 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 2024–25 Baildon Glen Primary School received £8,569 and spent £8,945 for each of its 153 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £7,000 (£46 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 Shipley · Bradford local authority: places and applications

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

• Cottingley Village Primary School Bingley
• Cavendish Primary School Bradford
• Holybrook Primary School Bradford
• Harden Primary School Bingley
• Horton Grange Primary School Bradford
• Copthorne Primary School Bradford
• Horton Park Primary School Bradford
• Bowling Park Primary School Bradford
• Oastlers School Bradford
• Knowleswood Primary School Bradford

What is Baildon Glen Primary School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Baildon Glen Primary School is Requires Improvement, from an inspection in June 2025.

When was Baildon Glen Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

Baildon Glen Primary School was last inspected in June 2025.

How many pupils does Baildon Glen Primary School have?

Baildon Glen Primary School has 128 pupils on roll.

What age range does Baildon Glen Primary School cover?

Baildon Glen Primary School for pupils aged 3 to 11.

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

In 2025, 29% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Baildon Glen Primary School?

Baildon Glen Primary School is at Thompson Lane, Baildon, Thompson Lane, Shipley, West Yorkshire, BD17 7LY.