Greenmount Primary School

About Greenmount Primary School

If you're a parent weighing up Greenmount Primary School, the feedback from other families is a strong signal. In the most recent Parent View survey, covering September 2024 to September 2025, a striking 99% of the 79 respondents said they would recommend the school. That's backed up by very high satisfaction on the ground: 84% of parents strongly agreed their child is happy at the school, and the same proportion strongly agreed their child feels safe. The school is clearly popular in practical terms too — for the 2025/26 intake, it received 169 applications for just 60 places, making it oversubscribed by a ratio of 2.82 to one. Of those 169 applications, 62 were first-preference choices, and 58 of those families were offered a place. So while getting in is competitive, the parent experience suggests it's a school where children are genuinely settled and well looked after.

Academically, Greenmount's most recent Key Stage 2 results from the 2023/24 year paint a mixed picture. The proportion of pupils reaching the expected standard in reading, writing and maths combined was 45%, which is below the Leeds local authority average of 61%. In the Leeds rankings, this placed the school 172nd out of 204 primary schools, putting it in the bottom 50% nationally. Breaking it down, 67% of pupils met the expected standard in maths, with 22% reaching the higher standard, while in reading the figures were 63% expected and 18% higher. Writing saw 63% at expected but only 2% at the higher level. The average scaled scores were 102 in both reading and maths. That said, the school's most recent Ofsted inspection in January 2025 judged leadership and management and personal development as Outstanding, with overall effectiveness not formally graded but the quality of education rated Good — a clear improvement on the previous Good inspection in 2019.

Greenmount is a larger-than-average primary, with 484 pupils against a capacity of 420, and it includes a nursery provision for children aged three and over. The school offers a broad set of facilities including a sports hall, playing fields, a sensory room, a library, a dining hall, a forest school and a chapel. Sports on offer include swimming, cricket, tennis and dance, and there are clubs such as eco club, science club, choir and book club. For families with children who have additional needs, the school lists SEND provisions covering moderate learning difficulty, social, emotional and mental health, speech, language and communication, hearing impairment, physical disability, autistic spectrum disorder and other difficulties. With 38.6% of pupils eligible for free school meals, the school serves a diverse catchment. It's a good fit for families who prioritise a strong pastoral culture and a school that feels genuinely welcoming, even if the headline academic results are below the local average.

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