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West Oaks School

Special schoolAges 2–19CommunitySixth form

Leeds, LS6 2ST · Leeds local authority

Leeds’s School Grade C+ better than 43% of towns in England

How full
503 pupils
101% of its 500 places
Free school meals
45%
45 in 100 pupils eligible · outlined square = England’s schools (25)
The gist

What stands out about West Oaks School

  • No letter for this school: the reason is below.
  • 45% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (more than England’s 25%)
  • Ofsted report card, June 2026: achievement strong standard, safeguarding met (shown, not graded)
  • Homes in its postcode sector (LS6 2) sold for a median £240,000; Leeds’s is £230,000

Who goes here

DfE school census, January 2025

488 pupils. SEN support is extra help in school for a special educational need; an EHC plan is the council’s legal plan for pupils who need more.

SEN support
0.2%England 15.3%
EHC plan
99.8%England 3.6%
English as an additional language
12.5%England 18.8%
Free school meals in the last 6 years
42.2%England 26.2%

Girls and boys

Girls 26%Boys 74%
Its letter

No letter for West Oaks School

Special schools aren’t given a letter: their pupils’ needs differ too much for results to compare with mainstream schools.

Letters go to England’s open mainstream state schools with published Key Stage 2 or GCSE results (grammar schools included), each against the schools of its own phase.

Ofsted

Ofsted inspections

Shown, not graded: Ofsted is never part of a letter or the School Grade.

Report card, inspection starting June 2026.

SafeguardingMet
AchievementStrong standard
Curriculum and teachingStrong standard
InclusionStrong standard
Attendance and behaviourStrong standard
Personal development and well-beingStrong standard
Leadership and governanceStrong standard
Early yearsStrong standard
Sixth formStrong standard

Before the report card: Ungraded inspection: School remains Outstanding, May 2022.

The full reports on Ofsted ↗

Living nearby

Living near West Oaks School

For families thinking of moving: what homes cost around the school, and the other schools close by.

Home prices in LS6 2, the school’s postcode sector

Leeds property prices →
£240,000
median sale, 196 sales in 36 months · Leeds £230,000

Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025

£100K£150K£200K£250K£300K2010201520202025LS6 2Leeds
LS6 2Leeds

By type, the 36 months to August 2026

Detached
£365K
Semi-detached
£280K
Terraced
£214K
Flat
£200K
LS6 2Leeds

Homes in LS6 2 sell for a little over Leeds’s typical price. HM Land Registry Price Paid, standard sales. Catchments aren’t published, so the postcode sector stands in for “around the school”.

Schools within 1.6 miles

30 state schools
0.5 mi1 mi1.5 miNADC+CD−BDC−DC−C−A−A−AD−DDCB+DC+C−B−AAB+B+BAD−West Oaks School
ABCDNo letterPrimarySecondary / all-through

Leeds, LS6 2ST

West Oaks School: common questions

What is West Oaks School’s Ofsted rating?

Its latest inspection (June 2026) gave a report card: achievement strong standard, safeguarding met. Ofsted stopped giving one-word overall grades in September 2024.

How much do houses cost near West Oaks School?

Homes in its postcode sector, LS6 2, sold for a median £240,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (196 sales).

Sources: DfE Get Information about Schools (16 October 2026), Key Stage 2 performance tables (2023–2025, three-year average) and Key Stage 4 (2025/26, provisional); Ofsted state-funded school inspections as at 30 September 2026. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Also: DfE Key Stage 4 performance, schools data (2023/24 and 2024/25 final, 2025/26 provisional) and Key Stage 2 performance tables 2024/25 by subject; DfE school census, January 2025; DfE school-level applications and offers, September 2019 to 2026 entry; HM Land Registry Price Paid by postcode sector, 2010 to August 2026.

A school’s letter is our own summary of its published results against England’s schools of the same phase; Leeds’s School Grade is a separate grade, built from the results of the schools in and around the town against other towns. Map: © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026 (ONS boundaries). Northern Ireland: Source: NISRA; contains Land & Property Services data and Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland information, © Crown copyright, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Scotland: contains National Records of Scotland data, Registers of Scotland data and SEPA data, © Crown copyright / © SEPA 2025, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.