How far Leeds schools admitted from
How far away the last child offered a place lived, for 66 Leeds schools, from the council's own figures. Tightest first.
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Primary and secondary schools, from the 2024/25 round.
Applying for September 2027? Secondary applications close on 31 October 2026, with offers on 1 March 2027; primary applications close on 15 January 2027, with offers on 16 April 2027.
The tightest is St Anthony's Catholic Primary School, Beeston at 0.17 miles in 2024/25; the most far-reaching, St Edward's Catholic Primary School, Boston Spa, admitted from 4.14 miles.
Primary schools
| School | Ofsted | Admitted from | Round | How full |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| St Anthony's Catholic Primary School, Beeston Leeds | Outstanding | 0.17 mi | 2024/25 | 100% |
| Horsforth Featherbank Primary School Leeds | Outstanding | 0.23 mi | 2024/25 | 100% |
| Manor Wood Primary School Leeds | Ungraded inspection, June 2025: standards maintained | 0.25 mi | 2024/25 | 99% |
| Lawns Park Primary School Leeds | Good | 0.28 mi | 2024/25 | 111% |
| Weetwood Primary School Leeds | Good | 0.31 mi | 2024/25 | 115% |
| Five Lanes Primary School Leeds | Good | 0.32 mi | 2024/25 | 107% |
| Kippax Greenfield Primary School Leeds | Good | 0.33 mi | 2024/25 | 118% |
| Holy Family Catholic Primary School Leeds | Good | 0.37 mi | 2024/25 | 115% |
| Roundhay St John's Church of England Primary School Leeds | No current grade | 0.38 mi | 2024/25 | 115% |
| St Patrick Catholic Primary School Leeds | Good | 0.38 mi | 2024/25 | 98% |
| Talbot Primary School Leeds | Outstanding | 0.39 mi | 2024/25 | 102% |
| Lower Wortley Primary School Leeds | No current grade | 0.41 mi | 2024/25 | 105% |
| Westbrook Lane Primary School Leeds | Report card | 0.43 mi | 2024/25 | 101% |
| Farsley Springbank Primary School Pudsey | Good | 0.47 mi | 2024/25 | 99% |
| Moortown Primary School Leeds | Outstanding | 0.47 mi | 2024/25 | 99% |
| West End Primary School Leeds | Good | 0.5 mi | 2024/25 | 114% |
| Cookridge Primary School Leeds | Good | 0.51 mi | 2024/25 | 100% |
| Bardsey Primary Academy Leeds | No current grade | 0.52 mi | 2024/25 | 99% |
| Beecroft Primary School Leeds | Outstanding | 0.52 mi | 2024/25 | 112% |
| Deighton Gates Primary School Wetherby | Good | 0.52 mi | 2024/25 | 97% |
| Horsforth Newlaithes Primary School Leeds | Good | 0.53 mi | 2024/25 | 99% |
| St Peter's Church of England Primary School Leeds | Outstanding | 0.54 mi | 2024/25 | 120% |
| Colton Primary School Leeds | Outstanding | 0.55 mi | 2024/25 | 109% |
| Crossley Street Primary School Wetherby | Outstanding | 0.56 mi | 2024/25 | 103% |
| Blenheim Primary School Leeds | Outstanding | 0.58 mi | 2024/25 | 101% |
| Cross Gates Primary School Leeds | Good | 0.58 mi | 2024/25 | 123% |
| Morley Victoria Primary School Leeds | Outstanding | 0.62 mi | 2024/25 | 112% |
| Kippax North Primary School Leeds | Good | 0.63 mi | 2024/25 | 112% |
| St Philip's Catholic Primary School Leeds | Good | 0.66 mi | 2024/25 | 87% |
| Greenmount Primary School Leeds | No current grade | 0.68 mi | 2024/25 | 115% |
| Windmill Primary School Leeds | Good | 0.69 mi | 2024/25 | 94% |
| St Theresa's Catholic Primary School Leeds | Good | 0.71 mi | 2024/25 | 100% |
| Victoria Primary Academy Leeds | Good | 0.71 mi | 2024/25 | 95% |
| Rothwell Primary School Leeds | Good | 0.75 mi | 2024/25 | 115% |
| Adel Primary School Leeds | Report card | 0.76 mi | 2024/25 | 101% |
| Collingham Lady Elizabeth Hastings Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School Wetherby | Report card | 0.8 mi | 2024/25 | 100% |
| Armley Park Primary School Leeds | Good | 0.85 mi | 2024/25 | 107% |
| Beeston Hill St Luke's Church of England Primary School Leeds | Good | 0.86 mi | 2024/25 | 110% |
| Pudsey Primrose Hill Primary School Pudsey | Outstanding | 0.86 mi | 2024/25 | 112% |
| Lowtown Primary School Pudsey | Good | 0.91 mi | 2024/25 | 99% |
| Clapgate Primary School Leeds | Good | 0.95 mi | 2024/25 | 89% |
| Greenside Primary School Pudsey | Good | 1.05 mi | 2024/25 | 84% |
| Meadowfield Primary School Leeds | Good | 1.06 mi | 2024/25 | 95% |
| Guiseley Primary School Leeds | Good | 1.1 mi | 2024/25 | 76% |
| Templenewsam Halton Primary School Leeds | Good | 1.12 mi | 2024/25 | 108% |
| Chapel Allerton Primary School Leeds | Good | 1.21 mi | 2024/25 | 108% |
| Hill Top Primary Academy Wakefield | Good | 1.22 mi | 2024/25 | 106% |
| Thorpe Primary School Wakefield | Good | 1.22 mi | 2024/25 | 91% |
| Whingate Primary School Leeds | Good | 1.24 mi | 2024/25 | 93% |
| Allerton CofE Primary School Leeds | Good | 1.32 mi | 2024/25 | 99% |
| Whitkirk Primary School Leeds | Good | 1.37 mi | 2024/25 | 101% |
| Bramhope Primary School Leeds | No current grade | 1.41 mi | 2024/25 | 139% |
| Wigton Moor Primary School Leeds | Outstanding | 1.41 mi | 2024/25 | 99% |
| Farsley Farfield Primary School Pudsey | Good | 1.46 mi | 2024/25 | 106% |
| Kerr Mackie Primary School Leeds | Good | 1.46 mi | 2024/25 | 94% |
| Austhorpe Primary School Leeds | Good | 1.55 mi | 2024/25 | 101% |
| Calverley Parkside Primary School Pudsey | Good | 1.83 mi | 2024/25 | 109% |
| Alwoodley Primary School Leeds | Good | 2.09 mi | 2024/25 | 110% |
| Methley Primary School Leeds | Good | 2.1 mi | 2024/25 | 92% |
| Adel St John the Baptist Church of England Primary School Leeds | No current grade | 2.27 mi | 2024/25 | 96% |
| Highfield Primary School Leeds | Outstanding | 3.24 mi | 2024/25 | 100% |
| Rawdon St Peter's Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School Leeds | Good | 3.52 mi | 2024/25 | 95% |
| Meanwood Church of England Primary School Leeds | Good | 3.69 mi | 2024/25 | 97% |
| St Edward's Catholic Primary School, Boston Spa Wetherby | Good | 4.14 mi | 2024/25 | 99% |
Secondary schools
| School | Ofsted | Admitted from | Round | How full |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Roundhay School Leeds | Outstanding | 0.47 mi | 2024/25 | 102% |
| Carr Manor Community School Leeds | No current grade | 0.62 mi | 2024/25 | 102% |
If a place is refused
You can appeal. In 2025, 76 of 589 secondary appeals heard here were allowed (12.9%; England 19.9%), counted for all the council's schools together.
How to read this
Every refusal carries a right of appeal to an independent panel. In Leeds, panels heard 589 appeals for secondary places in the 2025 round and allowed 76 of them, 12.9%, against 19.9% across England. These are the council's figures for all its schools together: appeals are not published school by school, so no one can tell you the rate for one named school, and this page will not pretend to.
An infant class appeal, for reception to year 2, can only be allowed on narrow legal grounds, which is why its share is a fraction of the others.
| Appeals in 2025 | Lodged | Heard | Allowed | Share allowed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Secondary | 804 | 589 | 76 | 12.9% |
| Primary | 258 | 131 | 29 | 22.1% |
| Primary (infant classes) | 138 | 64 | 6 | 9.4% |
How every council compares, and what the figures are and are not.
How often children here are out of school
Primary schools here missed 5.3% of sessions in 2024/25 (England 5.2%), and 14.3% of pupils were persistently absent (England 13.0%).
How to read this
In Leeds, 5.3% of primary school sessions were missed in 2024/25, about the same as the 5.2% across England. That is days missed. The second figure is children: 14.3% of primary pupils here were persistently absent, meaning they missed a tenth or more of their sessions, higher than England's 13.0%.
| 2024/25 | Sessions missed | England | Persistently absent | England |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Primary | 5.3% | 5.2% | 14.3% | 13.0% |
| Secondary | 8.8% | 8.4% | 23.8% | 23.4% |
What the figures mean
Persistently absent means missing a tenth or more of their sessions, for any reason, authorised or not. A council's rate is moved by things no school controls, term-time holidays and a bad winter among them, so read it as the weather around the schools rather than a mark against them. Higher or lower is said only where the two rates differ by at least 1 percentage point.
These are Leeds's figures for all its schools together. The Department for Education publishes absence by council, not school by school, so no one can give you the rate for one named school from this release. Source: DfE pupil absence in schools in England, explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk. Read on 1 October 2026.
Source: DfE pupil absence in schools in England, by council, not school by school
Reading the numbers
These are distances, not catchment areas, and they move every year.
How to read this
For every oversubscribed school, Leeds publishes how far away the last child offered a place lived. A short distance means a school that fills up close to its gates; a long one means places went further afield. The address on the deadline is the one the council uses.
These are not catchment areas: most English schools have none. Each figure is the distance from the school to the home of the furthest child who was offered a place under the distance criterion in that round, as Leeds measures it, which is usually a straight line from a fixed point at the home to one at the school. Looked-after children, siblings and, at faith schools, faith criteria come before distance, so a school can fill before distance is reached at all. The figure moves every year with the number of applications. How the whole process works →
Checking an address against these
Each school's page has a checker that measures a postcode against that school's distance. The full property report measures every nearby school at once, alongside sold prices, flood risk and the rest of the house.
Admission distances published by Leeds. School details and grades from the Department for Education's register and Ofsted. If a figure looks wrong, tell us and it goes on the accuracy log.