Allerton Bywater Primary School

About Allerton Bywater Primary School

Allerton Bywater Primary School has been rated Good across the board in its most recent Ofsted inspection, a significant improvement from its previous Requires Improvement rating in 2019. The school’s leadership, quality of education, behaviour and attitudes, personal development, and early years provision all now sit at Good. On the academic front, the most telling metric is the proportion of pupils reaching the expected standard in reading, writing and maths combined — 68% did so in the 2023/24 Key Stage 2 assessments. That comfortably beats the Leeds local authority average of 61%, placing the school 75th out of 204 primary schools in the area, which puts it in the top 40% locally. It also ranks in the top 35% nationally. The school’s overall ranking score of 68 reflects solid, above-average performance, though it sits some way behind the top performers in the authority, such as Harewood and Shadwell primary schools.

Digging into the individual subject scores, the school’s strongest showing is in reading, where 84% of pupils met the expected standard and 23% reached the higher standard. Maths follows closely with 82% at expected and 28% at the higher level. Writing is a relative weak spot: 74% met the expected standard and only 11% achieved the higher mark. The average scaled scores for reading and maths are both 105, exactly in line with the national average. The proportion of pupils reaching the higher standard across all three subjects is just 5%, which is below the national figure and suggests that while most children are meeting expectations, fewer are stretching into the top tier. The school does not publish progress scores for reading, writing or maths, so it is not possible to say how much value it adds compared with pupils’ starting points.

Allerton Bywater is a state primary for children aged 3 to 11, with a nursery on site. It is oversubscribed: for the 2025/26 intake, there were 94 applications for 42 places, and only 37 first-preference families were offered a spot, giving an oversubscription ratio of 2.24. The school has a range of facilities including a library, ICT suite, gymnasium, forest school and music rooms, and offers clubs from chess and coding to choir and drama. Its SEND provision is broad, covering specific learning difficulties like dyslexia, moderate learning difficulties, social and emotional mental health needs, speech and language needs, visual impairment and autistic spectrum disorder. With 21.7% of pupils eligible for free school meals, the school serves a community with above-average disadvantage. This is a solid, improving school that suits families looking for a well-rated local option with good core outcomes and a wide range of enrichment, though those seeking a higher proportion of top-grade results may want to look at the outstanding-rated Green Lane Primary Academy, about 4.7 km away.

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