Bankside Primary School
Shepherds Lane, Leeds, LS8 5AW
- Phase
- Primary
- School type
- Foundation school
- Ages
- 2 to 11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Trust
- Leeds Learning Alliance
- Headteacher
- Ms Victoria Broughton
- Nursery provision
- Has Nursery Classes
- Constituency
- Leeds East
- Setting
- Urban: Nearer to a major town or city
- Capacity
- 744
- Pupils on roll
- 676
- URN
- 107901
- Local authority
- Leeds
- Website
- School website
- Telephone
- 01133368383
About this school
Bankside Primary School is a foundation primary school in Leeds. It teaches children aged 2 to 11 and has 676 pupils on roll.
You can read Ofsted's latest judgement for the school below. Where the Department for Education has published them, its results and pupil characteristics appear below. Seeing a school for yourself shows what no page can, so arrange a visit before you apply.
Ofsted judgement
Ofsted did not give an overall grade. Between September 2024 and September 2025 inspections graded each area of a school's work without a single overall judgement, ahead of the move to report cards. How Ofsted report cards work
- Quality of education
- Requires improvement
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Good
- Personal development
- Requires improvement
- Leadership and management
- Requires improvement
- Early years
- Requires improvement
- Safeguarding
- Effective
Exam results
Key stage 2 (end of primary school)
| Measure | 2022/23 | 2023/24 | 2024/25 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils at the end of key stage 2 | 85 | 91 | 84 |
| Met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths | 21% | 29% | 31% |
| Reached the higher standard in reading, writing and maths | 1% | 0% | 0% |
| Expected standard in reading | 41% | 52% | 46% |
| Expected standard in maths | 35% | 43% | 50% |
| Expected standard in grammar, punctuation and spelling | 44% | 46% | 50% |
| Average scaled score in reading | 99.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 |
| Average scaled score in maths | 96.0 | 99.0 | 99.0 |
| Reading progress | -1.20 | - | - |
| Writing progress | -1.10 | - | - |
| Maths progress | -2.40 | - | - |
Progress measures ended nationally after the 2022/23 school year, when the key stage 1 assessments they were based on were stopped. Blank progress figures in later years are not missing school data.
Trends over time
How Bankside Primary School has moved over recent years against the local and national picture. Every figure is shown in the table beneath its chart.
| Year | This school | Leeds average | England average |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022/23 | 21% | 59% | 57.9% |
| 2023/24 | 29% | 59.4% | 58.8% |
| 2024/25 | 31% | 61.6% | 60.3% |
Department for Education KS2 performance data, published school results.
| Year | This school | England average |
|---|---|---|
| 2022/23 | 11.4% | 6.8% |
| 2023/24 | 10.3% | 6.6% |
| 2024/25 | 8.6% | 6.2% |
Department for Education pupil absence data.
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 2022/23 | 689 |
| 2023/24 | 724 |
| 2024/25 | 698 |
School census, spring count each academic year.
How Bankside Primary School compares
Bankside Primary School ranked 213th of 216 primary schools in Leeds for KS2 results in 2024/25. Its KS2 result was higher than 7% of England primary schools that published results in 2024/25. Its absence rate was lower than 13% of England schools in 2024/25.
| School | KS2 RWM (2024/25) | Absence | FSM (6 years) | Pupils | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| This school | 31% | 8.6% | 35% | 676 | — |
| Hillcrest Academy | 63% | 6.3% | 32.6% | 465 | 0.2 miles |
| Harehills Primary School | 52% | 8% | 45.1% | 692 | 0.4 miles |
| Bracken Edge Primary School | 54% | 8.7% | 33.7% | 362 | 0.4 miles |
| Holy Rosary and St Anne's Catholic Primary School, a Voluntary Academy | 43% | 4.4% | 55.3% | 207 | 0.5 miles |
| Co-op Academy Nightingale | 43% | 9.5% | 53.8% | 395 | 0.5 miles |
Results reflect each school's cohort as much as its teaching, and free school meals share is context, not a judgement. Small gaps between neighbouring schools are rarely meaningful on their own.
Inspection history
School context
From the 2024/25 school census and absence figures.
- Free school meals (last 6 years)
- 34.98%
- English as an additional language
- 73.9%
- Overall absence
- 8.58%
- Persistent absence
- 34.97%
Location
Nearby schools
-
Hillcrest Academy0.2 miles
Primary · Leeds
-
Harehills Primary School0.4 miles
Primary · Leeds
-
Bracken Edge Primary School0.4 miles
Primary · Leeds
- 0.5 miles
-
Co-op Academy Nightingale0.5 miles
Primary · Leeds
Other schools in Leeds
Bankside Primary School ranks 180th of the 182 ranked primary schools in Leeds.
- Aberford Church of England Primary School Primary
- Adel Primary School Primary
- Adel St John the Baptist Church of England Primary School Primary
- Alder Tree Primary Academy Primary
- All Saint's Richmond Hill Church of England Primary School Primary
- Allerton CofE Primary School Primary
- Alwoodley Primary School Primary
- Armley Park Primary School Primary
- Asquith Primary School Primary
- Austhorpe Primary School Primary
- Bardsey Primary Academy Primary
- Barwick-in-Elmet CofE Primary School and Nursery Primary
Common questions
- What year groups does Bankside Primary School teach?
- Bankside Primary School teaches children aged 2 to 11. It is a primary school in Leeds.
- Who is the headteacher of Bankside Primary School?
- The headteacher of Bankside Primary School is Ms Victoria Broughton, as recorded in the Department for Education's register of schools.
- When was Bankside Primary School last inspected?
- Ofsted has inspected Bankside Primary School, and its latest judgement is set out in the inspection section on this page, with the framework and the date it was made.
- How big is Bankside Primary School?
- Bankside Primary School has 676 pupils on roll, teaching children aged 2 to 11.
- Is Bankside Primary School full?
- Bankside Primary School has capacity for 744 pupils and 676 on roll (91%), so it has space against its published capacity. Places are allocated through the local authority's admissions process, so capacity alone does not tell you whether a place is available.
- Is Bankside Primary School a faith school?
- No. Bankside Primary School has no designated religious character.
- Does Bankside Primary School have a nursery?
- Yes. The schools register records Bankside Primary School as having nursery classes.
- Who runs Bankside Primary School?
- Bankside Primary School is part of Leeds Learning Alliance. Schools in a trust or federation share leadership and governance, but each keeps its own inspection record and results.
- How have Bankside Primary School's results changed over recent years?
- Its share of pupils reaching the expected standard in reading, writing and maths was 21% in 2022/23 and 31% in 2024/25. The year-by-year figures, alongside local and national averages, are charted in the trends section on this page.
- How does Bankside Primary School rank locally?
- Bankside Primary School ranked 213th of 216 primary schools in Leeds for key stage 2 results. Its KS2 result was higher than 7% of England primary schools that published results in 2024/25. Its absence rate was lower than 13% of England schools in 2024/25. Results reflect each cohort as well as the school, so treat rankings as a starting point.
- What is Bankside Primary School's absence rate?
- Bankside Primary School's overall absence rate is 8.6% in the latest published census, above the England average of 6.2%.
- What are Bankside Primary School's exam results?
- Where the Department for Education has published them, Bankside Primary School's key stage results are shown in the results section on this page, with the last three years so you can see the trend rather than a single year.
School details come from the Department for Education's Get Information About Schools register. Inspection outcomes come from Ofsted, and exam results from the Department for Education's school performance service. This page was last updated on 29 June 2026.