Overall Oxbridge
#1,118
15 ranked schools · -204 places vs Eng avg #914 of 1,984
Applications
181
Offers
30
Offer rate16.6%
-5.8 pts vs Eng avgEng avg 22.4%
Yorkshire's largest city and the economic capital of the north's most populous county, Leeds is built along the River Aire in the eastern foothills of the Pennines, spreading across more than 550 square kilometres of West Yorkshire. A small manorial borough in the thirteenth century and a wool-trading centre by the sixteenth, it received its Royal City Charter in 1626 and grew into one of the great mill cities of the Industrial Revolution; several surviving Victorian arcades, including Kirkgate Market, mark that chapter in the city centre today. Around 536,000 people live in the metropolitan borough.
Leeds station anchors the city's rail connections, with East Coast Main Line services running north to Edinburgh and south, while Cross Country and TransPennine Express routes link directly to Manchester, Liverpool, and Newcastle. The school-competitive belt in north Leeds runs through Alwoodley, the city's cross-phase leader for both secondary and sixth-form catchments, and into Roundhay, long sought-after by families for state school places. Wigton Moor, Horsforth, and Kirkstall extend the picture of residential demand across the wider city.
Area Performance
Across 257 primary, secondary and sixth-form schools, state and independent. The average Find My School Inspection Score is 7.61/10, +0.22 vs England.
Find My School Inspection Band
Distribution across all Leeds schools
Leeds vs England distribution
National Rank
Across all ranked Leeds schools
top 48% of 14,978
top 48% of 14,978
top 50% of 3,862
top 50% of 3,862
top 44% of 2,555
top 44% of 2,555
Overall Oxbridge
15 ranked schools · -204 places vs Eng avg #914 of 1,984
Applications
181
Offers
30
Oxford
10 ranked schools · +9 places vs Eng avg #253 of 1,198
Applications
87
Offers
15
Cambridge
13 ranked schools · -285 places vs Eng avg #773 of 1,881
Applications
94
Offers
15
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