Knowleswood Primary School

Academy converter·Primary school Bradford·BD4 9AE
Composite score
13.0
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#14,690
National rank
#1585
In Yorkshire and The Humber
#159
In Bradford
Top 99%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
20%
% achieving higher RWM
0%
Reading average scaled score
97.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
98.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
100%
25 first choices, 28 places
First choices per place
0.89
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
53
any preference, for 28 places
Applications from another council area
6%
First preferences per place, last five years▼ 0.08
00.511.5
1 per place
n/a2022n/a20230.9720240.9720250.892026

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

Every child who put Knowleswood 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
415
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
70.6%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
14.9%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
23.4%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
6.3%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
8.9%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
29.6%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
16.5
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£8,788
Typical primary: £6,960

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

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Location

Knowleswood Primary School at a glance

Located in Bradford, Knowleswood Primary School is a primary school, classified by the DfE as a converter academy. The school educates roughly 415 pupils aged 3 to 11. In the most recent Key Stage 2 SATs, 20% of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths combined — well below the national average of 61%. That is down 21.0 percentage points in the proportion reaching the expected standard on the previous 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 97 in reading and 98 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). Knowleswood Primary School was not oversubscribed for September 2026: all 25 families who put it first were offered a place. Overall pupil absence was 8.9%. There are about 16.5 pupils per teacher. The school serves a community with above-average levels of disadvantage: about 71% 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. Knowleswood 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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