Sandy Lane Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 2–11 · Bradford
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
Every applicant was offered a place
From Bradford Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2015–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Sandy Lane Primary School is a primary school in Bradford for ages 2–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 31 January 2024. Bradford has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2015 to 2026 entry.
Sandy Lane Primary School catchment area: last distance offered
Parents often call this the catchment area: it's how far from the school the last child offered a place lived. It changes every year.
| Entry | Last distance offered |
|---|---|
| Reception 2026 | Every applicant was offered a place |
| Reception 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2023 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2022 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2021 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2020 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2019 | 🔒 With a pass |
And 3 earlier figures.
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- In Reception 2026 every applicant was offered a place, as was the case at 85 of the 137 other Bradford primary schools with a published Reception 2026 outcome.
- Places ran out in Reception 2022, the earlier year with a published outcome, when a last distance was published.
- For Reception 2026 there were 34 first-choice applications for 38 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 4 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- In 2024/25, 76% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), the 2nd highest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest primary schools in Bradford.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Bradford schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Cottingley Road, Allerton, Bradford, BD15 9JU
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 2–11
- Council
- Bradford
- Pupils on roll
- 326 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 28.2% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 21.9
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 31 January 2024
Strengths
- “Sandy Lane Primary School is a happy place in which to learn.”
- “Pupils enjoy coming to school.”
- “They attend regularly and on time.”
To improve
- “However, in writing and mathematics, pupils’ attainment at the end of key stage 2 is below expected levels.”
- “Pupils say that bullying can happen.”
- “However, in some other subjects, such as history, this knowledge is not detailed enough.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 14 March 2024 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Exam results
| Measure | School | England |
|---|---|---|
| Key stage 2 · reading, writing and maths, expected standard (2024/25) | 76% | 62% |
Department for Education school performance data. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 34 first-preference applications, 38 offers in total, 34 offers to first-preference applicants.
Department for Education, school-level applications and offers, figures on national offer day. Earlier years are in the pass.
Nearby primary schools
Straight-line distance, in Bradford.
- Beckfoot Allerton Primary School and Nursery 0.9 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Cottingley Village Primary School 0.9 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Beckfoot Heaton Primary 0.9 mi Improved significantly Last distance published
- Ley Top Primary School 1.1 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St Matthew's Catholic Primary School, a Voluntary Academy 1.2 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Wilsden Primary School 1.2 mi Good Last distance published
- The Academy At St. James 1.3 mi Good Last distance published
- Lady Royd Primary School 1.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published