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State secondary schools in Leeds

45 schools · Yorkshire and the Humber · 2024/25 Department for Education figures

Leeds has 45 state secondaries, 22 of them with sixth forms. 83.2% of families got their first choice last year, about the national picture. Results run from 14.3% to 73.1% passing English and maths, a spread of 59 points, with a middle school at 46.4%, almost exactly England's 45.4%.

Of those Ofsted has graded, 9 rated Outstanding, 23 Good, 3 Requires improvement. 10 schools carry no overall grade at all — either inspected since Ofsted stopped issuing one in September 2024, or never inspected.

45 schools in Leeds. Tap one, or see the full list.
14% 73% passed English & maths no figure

Leeds against England

State-funded schools, 2024/25

47%

Passed English & maths grade 5 or above

1.1% above England

England 45%

45.5

Attainment 8 average score

in line with England

England 46.1

20%

Persistently absent missed 10% of sessions

1.5% below England

England 21%

Getting a place

2026/27 secondary admissions round, across Leeds

83.2%

Got their first choiceof those who applied

England 84%

93.6%

Got one of their threefirst, second or third

0%

Got no offer at allfrom any preference

19%

Appeals upheld102 of 533 heard

These are figures for Leeds as a whole. A popular school can be much harder to get into than the average suggests, and the criteria that decide it are set by each school's own admission authority rather than centrally. How applying works

How much the choice matters here

Across Leeds's 43 schools, the share passing English and maths runs from 14% to 73%. That is a spread of 59 percentage points, about typical.

The typical council spans about 48 points. Where schools are close together the school a child gets matters less; where they are far apart it matters a great deal. The widest spreads are all selective areas, where grammar schools sit at one end and everything else at the other.

Leeds schools, subject by subject

The share reaching grade 4 or above, among schools entering at least 20 pupils. Which pupils take a subject differs a lot between schools, so read this as what happened rather than as a ranking of teaching.

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  1. 1 Cardinal Heenan Catholic High School Leeds · 172 entries 94%
  2. 2 Leeds Jewish Free School Leeds · 27 entries 93%
  3. 3 Boston Spa Academy Wetherby · 218 entries 90%
  4. 4 Abbey Grange Church of England Academy Leeds · 234 entries 90%
  5. 5 Roundhay School Leeds · 296 entries 89%
  6. 6 St. Mary's Menston, a Catholic Voluntary Academy Ilkley · 187 entries 86%
  7. 7 Allerton High School Leeds · 225 entries 85%
  8. 8 Mount St Mary's Catholic High School Leeds · 183 entries 84%
  9. 9 The Ruth Gorse Academy Leeds · 240 entries 84%
  10. 10 Otley Prince Henry's Grammar School Specialist Language College Otley · 251 entries 83%
  11. 11 The Morley Academy Leeds · 260 entries 83%
  12. 12 Horsforth School Leeds · 246 entries 83%
  13. 13 The Farnley Academy Leeds · 275 entries 82%
  14. 14 Temple Moor High School Leeds · 218 entries 81%
  15. 15 Crawshaw Academy Pudsey · 188 entries 78%
  16. 16 Garforth Academy Leeds · 297 entries 77%
  17. 17 Woodkirk Academy Wakefield · 265 entries 77%
  18. 18 Wetherby High School Wetherby · 127 entries 76%
  19. 19 Bruntcliffe Academy Leeds · 263 entries 76%
  20. 20 Guiseley School Leeds · 221 entries 75%
  21. 21 Dixons Trinity Chapeltown Leeds · 108 entries 75%
  22. 22 Pudsey Grammar School Pudsey · 200 entries 75%
  23. 23 Allerton Grange School Leeds · 296 entries 73%
  24. 24 Rodillian Academy Wakefield · 298 entries 73%
  25. 25 Cockburn School Leeds · 269 entries 72%
  26. 26 Brigshaw High School Castleford · 228 entries 71%
  27. 27 Benton Park School Leeds · 207 entries 71%
  28. 28 Oulton Academy Leeds · 203 entries 70%
  29. 29 Lawnswood School Leeds · 247 entries 68%
  30. 30 Co-op Academy Priesthorpe Pudsey · 193 entries 67%
  31. 31 Carr Manor Community School Leeds · 210 entries 64%
  32. 32 Leeds West Academy Leeds · 279 entries 63%
  33. 33 Leeds City Academy Leeds · 198 entries 63%
  34. 34 University Technical College Leeds Leeds · 130 entries 63%
  35. 35 Temple Learning Academy Leeds · 106 entries 61%
  36. 36 Corpus Christi Catholic College, A Voluntary Academy Leeds · 160 entries 61%
  37. 37 Cockburn John Charles Academy Leeds · 235 entries 60%
  38. 38 Ralph Thoresby School Leeds · 171 entries 59%
  39. 39 Bishop Young Church of England Academy Leeds · 170 entries 59%
  40. 40 Dixons Unity Academy Leeds · 172 entries 55%
  41. 41 Leeds East Academy Leeds · 213 entries 49%
  42. 42 Co-op Academy Leeds Leeds · 172 entries 47%
  43. 43 John Smeaton Academy Leeds · 95 entries 44%
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Every school in Leeds

Schools in neighbouring authorities are not in this list, because admissions run per authority. See bordering areas.

10 of 44 have no spare places. Sort the list, or narrow it first.

Pick up to 4 schools to see them side by side in the comparison tool, subject by subject.

Sixth form · Key stage 5·2024/25

A levels in Leeds

19 of Leeds's 22 sixth forms publish A level results. Ranked on the share reaching AAB or better in at least two of the subjects universities name, which is the measure the steepest entry requirements are written in.

Sixth form Grade AAB+

A level results only. A sixth form running mostly BTECs and other applied courses will show a dash here and can still be the right one — those are graded on their own scale, where a distinction and an A grade carry the same points and mean different things.

Bordering Leeds

Near a boundary, schools on both sides are usually in reach. Whether a child can apply is set by each school's admission criteria, not by the border.

Bradford 35 schools · 38% passed English & mathsKirklees 25 schools · 47% passed English & mathsNorth Yorkshire 41 schools · 47% passed English & mathsWakefield 18 schools · 46% passed English & maths

What these mean

Attainment 8
The average pupil's total score across eight GCSE-equivalent subjects, with English and maths counting double. It is scored out of 90. A score of 50 is roughly equivalent to achieving a grade 5 across eight subjects.
Grades 4 and 5
GCSEs are graded from 9 down to 1. Grade 4 is a standard pass and broadly corresponds to the old grade C; grade 5 is what the government calls a strong pass. Grade 7 is broadly equivalent to an old grade A.
Persistent absence
The share of pupils who miss at least 10% of their possible sessions during the school year. This includes both authorised and unauthorised absence, so illness and other authorised reasons are included. Persistent absence has remained substantially higher than its pre-pandemic level.
First preference
The share of families who were offered the school they ranked first on their application, on national offer day in March. This figure is calculated across the relevant schools or admissions authority, so a high overall figure does not necessarily mean that every individual school is easy to get into.
Spare places
The amount of available capacity a school has compared with the number of pupils on roll. This is different from oversubscription: spare places measure whether a school has capacity, whereas oversubscription describes demand for places exceeding the number available. A school with no spare places may be popular, but a small school can also be full without receiving a large number of applications.
Average A-level grade
The average grade achieved across students' A-level entries. This is different from measures such as the proportion achieving AAB or better in two or more facilitating subjects, which are sometimes used to indicate higher attainment and university-entry performance.
Covers state-funded schools in England; independent schools are not included, and neither the list nor the subject figures above take account of them.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Key stage 4 performance and school characteristics: Department for Education, 2024/25. Inspection outcomes: Ofsted.