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Windmill Primary School

Community school in Leeds, LS10 3HQ, taking ages 4 to 11, 394 on roll.

Good Ofsted, Apr 2024
0.69 mi Admitted from, 2024/25
94% Full
74.0% Met the expected standard, 2024/25

Will an address get in?

In 2024/25, the furthest child offered a place lived 0.69 miles away.

Applying for September 2027? Primary applications close 15 January 2027; offers on 16 April 2027.

The circle is 0.69 miles, the distance the school admitted from in 2024/25.

Windmill Primary School: 0.69 miles, 2024/25 Clapgate Primary School: 0.95 miles, 2024/25, published by Leeds

This is not a catchment area. 0.69 miles was last year's outcome, not a boundary and not a promise.
How to read this

Most English schools do not have a catchment area. When Windmill Primary School is oversubscribed, places go outward from the school until they run out, so the distance moves each year with how many families applied and where they lived.

Distances are measured from the postcode's centre, not a front door; a postcode covers a few houses. Siblings, looked-after children come before distance, so a school can fill before distance counts at all.

Real admission areas are not circular: the circle is the distance, not a boundary. The labels on the map are postcode districts whose centre falls inside both circles; each opens the district's guide.

The address on the closing date is the one the council uses. How admissions work.

One published year so far: 2024/25, from Leeds. With two or more, the map can draw any of them.

Source: Leeds, published admission distances, 2024/25

Where Windmill Primary School and Clapgate Primary School are both in reach

Both distances are drawn on the map above. Clapgate Primary School admitted from 0.95 miles in 2024/25, published by Leeds. Its own page has the rest of its figures.

The postcode districts whose centre falls inside both published distances, cheapest first by the median of real sales around each district's centre. The cheapest is LS10 at £160,000. A district is wide, so check the address itself, not the list.

DistrictAreaFrom Windmill Primary SchoolFrom Clapgate Primary SchoolMedian sold price
LS10 Leeds 0.1 mi 0.9 mi £160,000 44 sales

Sold prices from HM Land Registry, via each district's area guide. Distances measured from each district's centre to each school's point on the Department for Education register.

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If the answer is no, you can appeal. In Leeds, 76 of 589 secondary appeals succeeded in 2025 (12.9%; England 19.9%), counted for all the council's schools together. How every council compares.

Other schools nearby with a published distance

The closest schools to Windmill Primary School that also have a council-published admission distance, nearest first.

SchoolPhaseAdmitted fromAway
Clapgate Primary School Both in reach Primary 0.95 mi 2024/25 0.8 mi
St Philip's Catholic Primary School Both in reach Primary 0.66 mi 2024/25 1.1 mi
Greenmount Primary School Both in reach Primary 0.68 mi 2024/25 1.4 mi
St Anthony's Catholic Primary School, Beeston Both in reach Primary 0.17 mi 2024/25 1.5 mi
Beeston Hill St Luke's Church of England Primary School Both in reach Primary 0.86 mi 2024/25 1.6 mi
Thorpe Primary School Both in reach Primary 1.22 mi 2024/25 1.9 mi

The distance as a picture

Windmill Primary School catchment area map: the 0.69 mile admission distance, 2024/25 and the postcode districts inside it
Drawn to scale from the published figure, with the districts whose centre falls inside. Save the picture, or share this page and this is the card that appears.

What kind of school this is

Religious characterNo religious character
Sixth formDoes not have a sixth form
How full 394 pupils in 420 places (94% full)
Local authorityLeeds

Department for Education register (GIAS).

How the school is doing

Ofsted Good, inspected 24 April 2024
Meeting the expected standard 74.0% in reading, writing and maths (2024/25)
YearMeeting the expected standard
2024/25 74.0%
2023/24 78.0%
2022/23 84.0%

Ofsted, and the Department for Education's published performance data.

Who goes to Windmill Primary School

Girls and boys43.1% girls, 56.9% boys
English as an additional language29.2% of pupils
Free school meals45.4% of pupils eligible

DfE school census, most recent published year.

What it costs to live within reach of Windmill Primary School

Cheapest district inside the 0.69 miles: LS10, median £160,000.

DistrictAreaFrom the schoolMedian sold price
LS10 Leeds 0.1 mi £160,000 44 sales
How to read this

The postcode districts whose centre falls inside the 0.69 miles the school admitted from in 2024/25, cheapest first, by the median of real sales around each district's centre. A district is wide, so check the address itself, not the list. Districts without enough recorded sales to rank are not shown.

How this compares across England: what a tight gate costs, school by school.

Source: HM Land Registry sold prices, via each district's area guide

Getting to Windmill Primary School by bus

Best-served stop: Petersfield Avenue, 0.1 mi away, with 9.1 buses an hour on weekday daytimes; first bus 04:41, last 23:16.

Every stop within 600 m
StopFrom the schoolWeekday daytime, an hourEveningSundayRoutes
Winrose Avenue0.1 mi2.00.00.047
Winrose Avenue0.1 mi1.90.20.047, 47A
The Clearings0.1 mi2.00.00.047

These are scheduled departures, not buses observed running. Two stops on opposite sides of a road are two rows.

Source: operators' timetables on the Bus Open Data Service (Department for Transport), week of 8 Sep 2026

The fee-paying alternative

Weighing Windmill Primary School against the independent sector? Every fee-paying school around LS10: ages, selection, and how full each one is → What it costs to live at LS10 3HQ, by the school: council tax, energy, prices, rent, stamp duty →

Checking the house as well as the school

The full report checks one address against every nearby school, with sold prices, flood risk and crime.

Common questions

What is the catchment area for Windmill Primary School?

Windmill Primary School does not have one in the sense most people mean. Like most English schools, an oversubscribed year offers places outward from the school until they run out. The nearest thing to an answer: the furthest child admitted in 2024/25 lived 0.69 miles away, per Leeds.

How close do I need to live to get a place at Windmill Primary School?

Nobody can say in advance, and anyone who does is guessing. 0.69 miles was enough in 2024/25. The distance moves every year with the number of applications, so treat last year's figure as evidence, not a promise.

Does buying a house near Windmill Primary School guarantee a place?

No. Admission criteria usually put looked-after children, siblings ahead of distance, so places can be filled before distance is reached. Councils also check that the address is genuinely where the child lives.

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Admission distance published by Leeds. School details from the Department for Education's register, ratings from Ofsted. Read how every figure on this site is sourced on the methodology page. If something here looks wrong, tell us and it goes on the accuracy log.