Long Lee Primary School

About Long Lee Primary School

Long Lee Primary School is a mixed, state primary in the Bradford local authority, serving children aged 3 to 11. In the most recent local rankings, it placed 132nd out of 153 primary schools in the area, placing it in the bottom half of Bradford’s schools. The top-performing peers nearby include All Saints' CofE Primary School, Harden Primary School, and Copthorne Primary School, all of which sit well above Long Lee in the local rankings. The school is led by headteacher Deborah Ward and has a capacity of 472 pupils, with 345 currently on roll. It offers nursery provision and is not a boarding school. The school’s most recent graded Ofsted inspection, in 2018, rated it Good overall, with Good marks for early years provision, leadership and management, and behaviour and attitudes. An ungraded inspection in 2023 confirmed the school remains Good, a significant improvement from its previous Requires Improvement rating in 2016.

Academically, Long Lee’s Key Stage 2 results for 2023/24 show that 43% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing, and maths combined, which is below the Bradford local authority average of 59%. In individual subjects, 54% reached the expected standard in reading, 66% in writing, and 61% in maths. The school’s average scaled scores were 102 in reading and 103 in maths, both slightly above the national average of 100. However, the proportion of pupils achieving the higher standard was low: 14% in reading, 4% in writing, and 11% in maths, with just 2% reaching the higher standard across all three subjects. Nationally, the school ranks in the bottom 12% of all primary schools on the combined expected standard metric. No progress scores are available for reading, writing, or maths, so it is not possible to assess how much value the school adds relative to pupils’ starting points.

The school is oversubscribed for 2025/26, with 64 applications for 36 places and 35 first-preference offers, giving an oversubscription ratio of 1.78. Facilities include art studios, music rooms, a sensory room, a forest school, an outdoor playground, and a chapel. Sports on offer include tennis, football, rounders, gymnastics, dance, and netball, and clubs include film, eco, and gardening. The school has a broad range of SEND provisions, covering specific learning difficulties like dyslexia, moderate learning difficulty, social, emotional and mental health needs, speech and language communication needs, hearing and visual impairments, multi-sensory impairment, physical disability, and autistic spectrum disorder, as well as a resourced provision. This makes it a practical choice for families in the Keighley area who need a primary with strong SEND support and a wide extracurricular offer, though those prioritising top academic outcomes may want to look at higher-ranked local peers.

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