Westerton Primary Academy

About Westerton Primary Academy

Westerton Primary Academy in Leeds holds a Good rating from Ofsted following its most recent inspection in 2023, a step down from the Outstanding grade it received in its previous inspection back in 2010. The inspection report notes that behaviour and attitudes are Outstanding, while the quality of education, early years provision, personal development, and leadership and management are all rated Good. On the key academic metric for primary schools, the proportion of pupils reaching the expected standard in reading, writing and maths combined stood at 57% in the 2023/24 academic year. This places the school slightly below the Leeds local authority average of 61% and ranks it 128th out of 204 primary schools in the area, putting it in the bottom half of the local league table. Nationally, Westerton sits in the 64th percentile, meaning roughly a third of primary schools across England perform better on this combined measure.

Looking more closely at the individual subjects, 78% of pupils met the expected standard in maths, with an average scaled score of 104, while 76% reached the expected level in reading and 69% in writing. The proportion achieving the higher standard in all three subjects was 8%, with maths seeing the strongest higher-level performance at 24%. Reading and writing higher scores were achieved by 19% and 15% of pupils respectively. These results suggest that while the school is not among the top performers in Leeds, it is delivering solid outcomes for the majority of its pupils, particularly in maths. The school is significantly oversubscribed, with 156 applications for 77 places in the 2025/26 admissions round, and 75 of those offers went to first-preference applicants. This level of demand indicates strong local confidence in the school, despite its middling position in the rankings.

Westerton is a larger-than-average primary, with 688 pupils against a capacity of 630, and it includes a nursery provision for children from age three. The school offers a broad range of facilities including playing fields, a library, a sports hall, art studios, a forest school and a dining hall. Sports provision covers cricket, football, gymnastics and cross country, and there are clubs for art, gardening and film. The school has a well-developed SEND offer, with provisions for specific learning difficulties like dyslexia, speech and language needs, hearing and visual impairments, physical disabilities, social and emotional mental health needs, and autistic spectrum disorder. This makes it a practical choice for families whose children require additional support. With a free school meal rate of 12.2%, the school serves a relatively mixed catchment. It is not a boarding school and has no sixth form, so families will need to plan for secondary transition from Year 6.

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