Graded inspection · Feb 2025 Previous framework
- Quality of education
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Personal development
- Leadership and management
This schoolOther secondary schools in Leeds
What did Ofsted find?
Ofsted data to 30 September 2026| Area | Outstanding | Good | Requires improvement | Inadequate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quality of education | Outstanding | |||
| Behaviour and attitudes | Outstanding | |||
| Personal development | Outstanding | |||
| Leadership and management | Outstanding | |||
| Sixth form provision | Outstanding |
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About these grades
Ofsted's report cards (from November 2025) grade each area on five steps and give no overall grade. Earlier grades come from a different framework; Ofsted says the two cannot be compared, so they are never converted here. Ofsted: "We normally inspect schools every 4 years or at any time if we have concerns." Methodology.
How hard is it to get a place?
DfE · Sept 2026 entry892 applications · 201 places offered · 179 named it first
FaithMay give priority to families of the faith.
- 2026 4.4; Leeds median median 3.0
- 2025 4.6; Leeds median median 3.1
- 2024 4.2; Leeds median median 3.1
- 2023 4.2; Leeds median median 2.9
- 2022 4.0; Leeds median median 2.9
- 2021 3.9; Leeds median median 2.8
- 2020 3.9; Leeds median median 2.9
- 2019 4.1; Leeds median median 2.6
- 2018 3.8; Leeds median median 2.7
- 2017 3.3; Leeds median median 2.6
- 2016 3.1; Leeds median median 2.6
- 2015 2.8; Leeds median median 2.2
- 2014 3.0; Leeds median median 2.5
- This school
- Leeds median
Year 7 applications for September 2027 close 31 October 2026, through your council
How this is measured
Applications per place: every application naming the school at any preference, divided by places offered on National Offer Day. It is not your chance of a place. Methodology.
| Entry | Places | Applications | Per place | First preferences | First-pref. ratio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2026 | 201 | 892 | 4.4 | 179 | 0.89 |
| Sep 2025 | 202 | 932 | 4.6 | 213 | 1.05 |
| Sep 2024 | 200 | 831 | 4.2 | 193 | 0.97 |
| Sep 2023 | 198 | 829 | 4.2 | 193 | 0.97 |
| Sep 2022 | 198 | 791 | 4.0 | 192 | 0.97 |
| Sep 2021 | 197 | 771 | 3.9 | 219 | 1.11 |
| Sep 2020 | 199 | 771 | 3.9 | 222 | 1.12 |
| Sep 2019 | 195 | 799 | 4.1 | 235 | 1.21 |
| Sep 2018 | 198 | 747 | 3.8 | 259 | 1.31 |
| Sep 2017 | 199 | 647 | 3.3 | 214 | 1.08 |
| Sep 2016 | 200 | 620 | 3.1 | 233 | 1.17 |
| Sep 2015 | 180 | 495 | 2.8 | 206 | 1.14 |
| Sep 2014 | 180 | 534 | 3.0 | 243 | 1.35 |
How did pupils do at GCSE?
DfE KS4 · 2025/26 provisionalEvery year as a table
| Year | Pupils | Attainment 8 | 5+ Eng & maths | 4+ Eng & maths | Progress 8 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025/26 (prov.) | 200 | 56.6 | 71% | 86% | – |
| 2024/25 | 192 | 55.0 | 60% | 80% | – |
| 2023/24 | 199 | 56.5 | 66% | 83% | +0.41 |
| 2022/23 | 202 | 57.2 | 67% | 85% | +0.56 |
Progress 8 is not published for 2024/25 or 2025/26: those pupils had no key stage 2 tests in 2020 and 2021.
Schools nearby
The 8 nearest secondary schools in a straight line, in any local authority
- St. Mary's Menston, a Catholic Voluntary AcademyThis schoolThis schoolGraded · no overall grade20254.4applications per place 56.6Attainment 8
- 1.3 km · LeedsStandards maintained20243.8applications per place 53.0Attainment 8
- 4.0 km · LeedsRequires improvement20233.0applications per place 47.5Attainment 8
- Graded · no overall grade20243.8applications per place 52.3Attainment 8
- 4.4 km · BradfordRemains Good20242.0applications per place 41.8Attainment 8
- 6.0 km · Bradford20263.2applications per place 40.8Attainment 8
- 7.1 km · BradfordGraded · no overall grade20252.0applications per place 36.3Attainment 8
- 7.2 km · LeedsRemains Good20234.1applications per place 60.1Attainment 8
- 7.2 km · BradfordGraded · no overall grade20242.9applications per place 56.6Attainment 8
- Exceptional
- Strong standard
- Expected standard
- Needs attention
- Urgent improvement
- Does not apply
Eight dots, one per area: inclusion, curriculum, achievement, attendance, personal development, early years, post-16, leadership. Colours follow Ofsted's report card scale; Schoolfile is independent of Ofsted.
School details
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- URN · DfE number
- 139351 · 383/4601
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Capacity
- 1,096 pupils · 1,211 on roll
- Free school meals
- 7.9% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Opened
- 1 March 2013
- Replaced
- St Mary's Catholic Comprehensive School, Menston (URN 108094)
- Address
- Bradford Road, Menston, Ilkley, LS29 6AE
- Local authority
- Leeds
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources