Hunslet Carr Primary School

About Hunslet Carr Primary School

Hunslet Carr Primary School sits within the Leeds local authority, a large and varied primary landscape of 221 schools. The school currently ranks 157th out of 204 primary schools in Leeds, placing it in the bottom half of the local authority. For context, the top-performing peers in the area include Harewood Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School, Shadwell Primary School, and Horsforth Featherbank Primary School, all of which achieve significantly higher ranking scores. Hunslet Carr is a state-funded, mixed primary school for children aged 3 to 11, with no religious character. It is led by headteacher Martin Lumb and currently has 380 pupils on roll, against a school capacity of 420. The school also offers nursery provision. In its most recent Ofsted inspection, carried out in November 2021, the school was rated Good overall, a notable improvement from its previous inspection in March 2018, when it was judged to Require Improvement.

Academically, Hunslet Carr’s Key Stage 2 results for the 2023/24 academic year show a mixed picture. The proportion of pupils achieving the expected standard in reading, writing and maths combined was 50%, which is below the Leeds local authority average of 61%. In reading, 57% of pupils reached the expected standard, with 12% achieving a higher standard. In writing, 57% met the expected standard and 9% reached the higher standard. Maths saw 60% of pupils at the expected standard and 16% at the higher standard. The average scaled scores were 100 in reading and 102 in maths. Nationally, the school ranks in the bottom 20% of all primary schools on the combined expected standard metric, and in the bottom quarter within Yorkshire and the Humber. However, the Ofsted report highlights some real strengths: personal development was rated Outstanding, and leadership and management, behaviour and attitudes, quality of education, and early years provision were all rated Good.

The school offers a broad range of facilities, including an ICT suite, sports hall, gymnasium, music rooms, and a chapel. Sports on offer include tennis, athletics, swimming, dance, gymnastics, and netball, and there are clubs such as art, coding, and eco club. For families with children who have additional needs, Hunslet Carr provides support for a wide range of SEND provisions, including specific learning difficulties like dyslexia, moderate learning difficulty, social, emotional and mental health needs, speech, language and communication needs, visual impairment, and autistic spectrum disorder. The school was oversubscribed for the 2025/26 intake, with 81 applications for 29 places, and 28 of those were first-preference offers, giving an oversubscription ratio of 2.79. This suggests strong local demand, despite the below-average academic rankings. The nearest Outstanding-rated school is St Anthony's Catholic Primary School in Beeston, 2.2 km away. Hunslet Carr is a good fit for families who value a school with strong personal development and a wide range of facilities and clubs, and who are comfortable with a school that is improving but still below the local average on academic outcomes.

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