Leeds has both primary and secondary schools covered on this page. Under the older single-grade system the primary and secondary schools here grade fairly similarly overall.
Choose your area of Leeds
Leeds is a big place, so schools near one neighbourhood may be a long way from another. Pick your area for a more local list of schools and how to get to them.
School admissions are run by the local authority where you live; the school may be in a different local authority (that is, it goes by your address rather than the school's). This area covers more than one local authority — mainly Leeds and North Yorkshire, Bradford.
Apply through the council for the area where you live. In some parts of England there are two councils — a smaller district or borough council and a larger county council. Where that is the case, it is the county council that handles school admissions. If you are not sure which applies to you, use the “find your local authority” link above. Deadlines and admission rules vary by council, so always check its official pages. See also our guide to school admissions.
Primary schools in Leeds
Our data covers 255 primary schools in the Leeds area with an Ofsted inspection on record, together teaching roughly 79,011 pupils. 194 were last judged under Ofsted's older single-grade system, while 17 have already moved to the newer report card, so you'll see a mix of both on this page. A further 30 have a recent inspection that graded individual areas without giving an overall grade.
Of those with a pre-2024 grade, 95% were judged Good or Outstanding, with 28 rated Outstanding. 10 were rated Requires improvement or Inadequate at their last visit.
By our Good School Finder score, Ss. Peter and Paul Catholic Primary School, a Voluntary Academy tops the primary list here, followed by Ryecroft Academy. The score is a rough shortlisting guide built from each school’s latest inspection, not an official Ofsted judgement, so open any school that interests you and read its full report.
219 of these schools were inspected in the last five years. 10 were last inspected before 2016, so their published grade may not reflect the school today — always check the current Ofsted report before deciding.
For families considering special educational needs (SEN) support, primary schools here have on average about 18.1% of pupils on SEN support and about 2.1% with an Education, Health and Care (EHC) plan (national averages are roughly 13% and 4-5% respectively). This indicates how common SEN provision is locally — context only, not a measure of quality; always contact a school's SENCo to discuss your child's needs.
If you're after a particular kind of school, Leeds has 75 faith schools among its primary schools. Admission rules for these differ — check each school's criteria with the school and your local authority.
On intake, about 23.4% of pupils at these primary schools are eligible for free school meals on average, close to the national average of roughly a quarter. This is background context to read results fairly — schools serving more disadvantage often add a lot of value that raw results understate — not a measure of quality, and not part of our score.
Primary schools here range from about 28 to 732 pupils (typically around 291), so there's a mix of smaller and larger settings to weigh up.
Based on the MHCLG Index of Multiple Deprivation, Leeds is more deprived than the national average. Note this data relates to the wider neighbourhood, not the school. It is provided as context but is not a measure of the schools’ quality.
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Primary schools in Leeds, ranked by the Good School Finder score.
#
School
Pupils
Class size
Postcode
Latest Ofsted
1
Ss. Peter and Paul Catholic Primary School, a Voluntary Academy
207
30.2
LS19 7HW
Areas graded, lowest: OutstandingOfsted inspection (individual areas graded)
2
Ryecroft Academy
350
28.3
LS12 5AW
Areas graded, lowest: OutstandingOfsted inspection (individual areas graded)
3
Bramhope Primary School
431
30.6
LS16 9AL
Areas graded, lowest: OutstandingOfsted inspection (individual areas graded)
In and around Leeds there were 46 secondary schools with an Ofsted inspection on record, together teaching roughly 57,517 pupils. 30 were last judged under Ofsted's older single-grade system, while 3 have already moved to the newer report card, so you'll see a mix of both on this page. A further 10 have a recent inspection that graded individual areas without giving an overall grade.
Looking at the older single-grade inspections, 93% were judged Good or Outstanding, with 8 rated Outstanding. 2 were rated Requires improvement or Inadequate at their last visit.
Mount St Mary's Catholic High School comes out highest among Leeds's secondary schools on our score, followed by Carr Manor Community School. The score is a rough shortlisting guide built from each school’s latest inspection, not an official Ofsted judgement, so open any school that interests you and read its full report.
For families considering special educational needs (SEN) support, secondary schools here have on average about 16.4% of pupils on SEN support and about 2.4% with an Education, Health and Care (EHC) plan (national averages are roughly 13% and 4-5% respectively). This indicates how common SEN provision is locally — context only, not a measure of quality; always contact a school's SENCo to discuss your child's needs.
40 of these schools were inspected in the last five years. 1 was last inspected before 2016, so its published grade may not reflect the school today — always check the current Ofsted report before deciding.
If you're after a particular kind of school, Leeds has 7 faith schools among its secondary schools. Admission rules for these differ — check each school's criteria with the school and your local authority.
On intake, about 32.7% of pupils at these secondary schools are eligible for free school meals on average, close to the national average of roughly a quarter. This is background context to read results fairly — schools serving more disadvantage often add a lot of value that raw results understate — not a measure of quality, and not part of our score.
Secondary schools here range from about 131 to 2,554 pupils (typically around 1,248), so there's a mix of smaller and larger settings to weigh up.
Based on the MHCLG Index of Multiple Deprivation, Leeds is less deprived than the national average. Note this data relates to the wider neighbourhood, not the school. It is provided as context but is not a measure of the schools’ quality.
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Secondary schools in Leeds, ranked by the Good School Finder score.
#
School
Pupils
Class size
Postcode
Latest Ofsted
1
Mount St Mary's Catholic High School
943
24.5
LS9 8LA
Areas graded, lowest: OutstandingOfsted inspection (individual areas graded)
2
Carr Manor Community School
1,541
26.9
LS17 5DJ
Areas graded, lowest: OutstandingOfsted inspection (individual areas graded)
3
St. Mary's Menston, a Catholic Voluntary Academy
1,211
19.1
LS29 6AE
Areas graded, lowest: OutstandingOfsted inspection (individual areas graded)
4
Ilkley Grammar School
2,219
20.6
LS29 8TR
Areas graded, lowest: OutstandingOfsted inspection (individual areas graded)
5
Garforth Academy
1,897
22.1
LS25 1LJ
Areas graded, lowest: OutstandingOfsted inspection (individual areas graded)
6
Otley Prince Henry's Grammar School Specialist Language College
1,641
21.3
LS21 2BB
Areas graded, lowest: OutstandingOfsted inspection (individual areas graded)
7
The Morley Academy
1,410
24.2
LS27 0PD
Areas graded, lowest: OutstandingOfsted inspection (individual areas graded)
8
Trinity Academy Leeds
1,182
25.6
LS9 7QL
OutstandingInspected under the pre-2024 framework
9
Oulton Academy
1,132
25.2
LS26 8EX
OutstandingInspected under the pre-2024 framework
10
Roundhay School
2,554
24.1
LS8 1ND
OutstandingInspected under the pre-2024 framework
11
The Farnley Academy
1,492
25.2
LS12 5EU
OutstandingInspected under the pre-2024 framework
12
Boston Spa Academy
1,498
20.8
LS23 6RW
OutstandingInspected under the pre-2024 framework
13
Cockburn School
1,248
24.8
LS11 5TT
OutstandingInspected under the pre-2024 framework
14
Dixons Trinity Chapeltown
960
27.5
LS7 4AW
OutstandingInspected under the pre-2024 framework
15
The Ruth Gorse Academy
1,265
20.8
LS10 1HW
OutstandingInspected under the pre-2024 framework
16
Cockburn John Charles Academy
1,169
24.9
LS10 2JU
Report card, lowest area: Strong standardReport card (framework from Nov 2025)
17
Abbey Grange Church of England Academy
1,576
20.6
LS16 5EA
Report card, lowest area: Expected standardReport card (framework from Nov 2025)
18
Bruntcliffe Academy
1,361
24.5
LS27 0LZ
Areas graded, lowest: GoodOfsted inspection (individual areas graded)
Ofsted changed how schools are graded in 2024. Older inspections gave one overall grade — Outstanding, Good, Requires improvement or Inadequate. Newer inspections give a “report card” that grades several areas separately, with no single overall grade. The two systems measure different things, so an old grade and a new report card can’t be compared directly. We show whichever one a school has, and label which system it came from.
To let you see a whole town at a glance, we turn each school’s latest inspection into a single Good School Finder score out of 100. For older grades, Outstanding scores highest, then Good, then Requires improvement, then Inadequate. For newer report cards, we average the area grades onto the same 0–100 scale. It’s a rough guide to help you build a shortlist — not an official Ofsted judgement — so always open a school and read its full inspection before deciding. There’s more on how the score works on the About page.
How the lists are ordered
Schools are listed by their Good School Finder score, best first. Quite often several schools tie — for example, a town might have five Outstanding primaries. When that happens we don’t put them in a random order; we use the same simple rules every time, so the list looks the same each time you visit:
The Good School Finder score comes first — a higher score is listed higher.
If two schools have the same score, the one whose safeguarding was judged effective is listed above one where it was not.
If they still tie, the school inspected more recently comes first, because its grade is more likely to reflect the school as it is today.
If everything above is equal, we simply list them in alphabetical order by name.
So if two schools are both Outstanding, the one with effective safeguarding and a more recent inspection appears higher — never just by chance.