Harehills Primary School

Community school·Primary school Leeds·LS8 5DQ
Composite score
38.5
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#11,406
National rank
#1160
In Yorkshire and The Humber
#173
In Leeds
Top 77%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
52%
% achieving higher RWM
4%
Reading average scaled score
102.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
102.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
100%
77 first choices, 78 places
First choices per place
0.99
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
151
any preference, for 78 places
First preferences per place, last five years▶ 0.00
00.511.5
1 per place
0.9620220.9820230.9920240.9920250.992026

Red dashed line = one first choice per place. How to read this

Every child who put Harehills Primary School first was offered a place in 2026, so no distance cut-off applied: living further away did not cost a place that year.

Application figures: DfE, school level applications and offers (2026 intake).

School profile

Age range
3–11
Pupils on roll
698
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
45.0%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
74.9%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
27.5%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
0.3%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
7.6%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
27.8%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
20.2
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£7,208
Typical primary: £6,960

“Typical” = the median primary school in England. What this means

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Location

Harehills Primary School at a glance

Located in Leeds, Harehills Primary School is a primary school, classified by the DfE as a community school. The school educates roughly 698 pupils aged 3 to 11. 52% of its pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of Key Stage 2, below the national average (national figure: 61%). The proportion reaching the expected standard has risen by 8.0 percentage points year on year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it in the lower half of primary schools nationally.

Pupils achieved an average scaled score of 102 in reading and 102 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). 4% reached the higher standard across all three subjects (around 8% do so nationally). Getting a place is straightforward: for the September 2026 intake every family who made Harehills Primary School their first choice was offered one of its 78 Reception places. Overall pupil absence was 7.6%. There are about 20.2 pupils per teacher. The school serves a community with above-average levels of disadvantage: about 45% of pupils have been eligible for free school meals in the last six years, compared with roughly 24% nationally — useful context when reading the results above. Harehills Primary School does not currently have a recent graded Ofsted judgement on record (often the case for newer or recently converted schools), so it is worth asking when its next inspection is expected. This overview is generated automatically from the latest published DfE performance tables and Ofsted data; figures are rounded, and you can check the originals via the official links above.

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