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Co-op Academy Leeds
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Co-op Academy Leeds

SecondaryAges 11–18Academy

Leeds, LS9 7HD · Leeds local authority

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

Photo: Betty Longbottom · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Its letter
1%
of England’s secondaries have lower GCSE results
Getting in
95/95
first choices offered a place, 2026 (England: 84%)
How full
974 pupils
93% of its 1,050 places
Free school meals
63%
63 in 100 pupils eligible · outlined square = England’s schools (30)
The gist

What stands out about Co-op Academy Leeds

  • Its own letter, D−: GCSE results near the bottom of England’s secondary schools (better than 1%)
  • 17% get grade 5 or above in English and maths, 30 points below England’s schools
  • 63% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (more than England’s 30%)
  • Ofsted: Good, November 2022 (shown, not graded)
  • Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026 (95 of 95)
  • Progress 8 of -0.03 in 2023/24, the last year DfE published it: pupils did about as well at GCSE as pupils nationally with the same results at 11
  • Homes in its postcode sector (LS9 7) sold for a median £142,500; Leeds’s is £230,000

Results

DfE · GCSEs 2025/26, provisional · 168 pupils

Each bar is a group of England’s 3,224 graded secondary schools. The schools Co-op Academy Leeds beats are shaded green.

Attainment 8 27.9

Average grade across 8 GCSEs ×10 · higher than 0% of schools · Leeds avg 47.3

20304050607080England avg 47.3Co-op Academy Leeds 27.9

Grade 5+ in English and maths 17%

A strong pass · higher than 2% of schools · Leeds avg 49%

0%20%40%60%80%100%England avg 47.3%Co-op Academy Leeds 17%

Attainment 8, three years

The mark is England’s average that year

2023/24
33
2024/25
30.5
2025/26
27.9

Progress 8, 2023/24

−1 behind0 = national+1 ahead

-0.03: about average. How pupils did at GCSE against pupils nationally with the same results at 11. Not published since 2023/24 (no Key Stage 2 tests in 2020 and 2021).

Disadvantaged pupils, 2025/26

Attainment 8 for the 106 pupils DfE counts as disadvantaged (free school meals in the last 6 years, or looked after) and the rest, beside England’s schools

Disadvantaged
23.5England 38.6
Not disadvantaged
35.6England 50.6
Grade 4 or above in English and maths28%
England’s schools 66% · Leeds 66% · a standard pass

England’s figures are of its graded mainstream state schools, each school counted once; grammar schools are included, which is why the right-hand tail is long. Small cohorts are suppressed.

Getting in

How hard is it to get a place at Co-op Academy Leeds?

Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026.

95
families put it first for September 2026
193
places offered
100%
of first choices offered a place (England’s secondaries: 84%)
First choices and places, by year of entry
20192020202120222023202420252026
Families who put it firstPlaces offered
Red figures: first choices not offered a place

Years when some first choices missed out: 2019 (6), 2021 (7). The council runs the coordinated admissions; each school’s rules (siblings, distance, faith) decide who gets in. DfE doesn’t publish the furthest distance offered, so check the council’s admissions booklet for that. The Co-Operative Academies Trust sets the admissions rules. Apply through Leeds council’s coordinated admissions.

Demand for secondary schools in Leeds, September 2026

Outline = places offered · green = families who put it first · striped = more first choices than places · the 10 most in demand

2.70 per place
35% got their first choice
1.91 per place
51% got their first choice
1.54 per place
55% got their first choice
1.48 per place
64% got their first choice
1.45 per place
63% got their first choice
1.39 per place
71% got their first choice
1.25 per place
71% got their first choice
1.23 per place
81% got their first choice
1.20 per place
79% got their first choice
Co-op Academy Leeds
0.49 per place
100% got their first choice

Leeds and Leeds, side by side

2025/26

All 44 graded secondaries in Leeds. Schools with more pupils on free school meals usually score lower, so a school above the crowd for its free school meals is doing better than its intake predicts. Leeds’s schools are coloured by their letter.

25323946536010%20%30%40%50%60%70%Pupils eligible for free school meals →Attainment 8 →Co-op Academy Leeds
ABCDElsewhere in LeedsCo-op Academy Leeds
Show as a table
SchoolLetterFree school mealsAttainment 8
Allerton High SchoolA23%60.2
Horsforth SchoolA15%60.1
Abbey Grange Church of England AcademyA24%57.1
St. Mary's Menston, a Catholic Voluntary AcademyA8%56.6
Roundhay SchoolA19%56.4
Cardinal Heenan Catholic High SchoolA21%55.5
Trinity Academy LeedsA60%55.4
The Morley AcademyA−21%55.1
Boston Spa AcademyA19%54.9
Mount St Mary's Catholic High SchoolA−48%54.6
Guiseley SchoolA−13%53
Woodkirk AcademyA−21%52.3
Otley Prince Henry's Grammar School Specialist Language CollegeA−15%52.3
Brigshaw High SchoolA−22%51.5
The Ruth Gorse AcademyB+54%51.4
Allerton Grange SchoolB+24%51.2
Cockburn SchoolA−40%51.2
Carr Manor Community SchoolA−26%51.1
Garforth AcademyA−16%50.9
Leeds Jewish Free SchoolA−29%50.6
Wetherby High SchoolB+28%49.2
Oulton AcademyB+31%48.4
Bruntcliffe AcademyB26%47.8
Benton Park SchoolB16%47.5
The Farnley AcademyB−35%46.7
Rodillian AcademyB20%45.9
Dixons Trinity ChapeltownC+48%45.8
Cockburn John Charles AcademyC56%45.7
Crawshaw AcademyB28%45.6
Pudsey Grammar SchoolC+24%45.4
Temple Moor High SchoolC+27%44
Ralph Thoresby SchoolC+37%43.8
Co-op Academy PriesthorpeC+37%43.4
Cockburn Laurence Calvert AcademyC48%41.8
Lawnswood SchoolC−49%40.3
Dixons Unity AcademyC−52%40.3
Leeds West AcademyC42%39.9
Bishop Young Church of England AcademyD57%37.4
Corpus Christi Catholic College, A Voluntary AcademyD43%37.3
John Smeaton AcademyD41%36.9
Leeds City AcademyD63%36.3
Leeds East AcademyD−60%31.4
Temple Learning AcademyD−55%30.7
Co-op Academy LeedsD−63%27.9

Who goes here

DfE school census, January 2025

969 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
21.2%England 14%
EHC plan
0.9%England 3.2%
English as an additional language
76%England 19%
Free school meals in the last 6 years
62.3%England 29.6%

Girls and boys

Girls 48%Boys 52%
Its letter

Co-op Academy Leeds’s letter

Its own results against England’s schools, not the town’s School Grade.

Secondary: Attainment 8 and grade 5+ English and maths D−Better than 1% of 3,224 schools
How school letters are worked out

Each school’s measure is compared with every graded school in England of the same phase: for primaries, the share of pupils meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (DfE’s three-year average); for secondaries, Attainment 8 and the share with grade 5 or above in English and maths, each turned into a z-score against England’s schools and averaged. The letter comes from the share of those schools it beats, in the same bands as every grade on the site. The same method gives U.S. schools their letters, against their own state.

A+ 95+A 85–94A− 75–84B+ 65–74B 55–64B− 45–54C+ 35–44C 25–34C− 15–24D 5–14D− 0–4

Graded: England’s open mainstream state schools with published results (grammar schools included, which select by test). Not graded: special schools, alternative provision, nurseries, 16–19 colleges, UTCs and studio schools, Welsh schools. Ofsted plays no part.

Ofsted

Ofsted inspections

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

Graded inspection: Good, November 2022.

The full reports on Ofsted ↗

Living nearby

Living near Co-op Academy Leeds

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

Home prices in LS9 7, the school’s postcode sector

Leeds property prices →
£142,500
median sale, 78 sales in 36 months · Leeds £230,000

Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025

£50K£100K£150K£200K£250K2010201520202025LS9 7Leeds
LS9 7Leeds

By type, the 36 months to August 2026

Semi-detached
£165K
Terraced
£145K
Flat
£116K
LS9 7Leeds

Homes in LS9 7 sell for well under 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 miNAD−DC−DDA+B+B−B+C−A−C−C−CDCB+CDC+D−C−BC−DAB+AD−D−Co-op Academy Leeds
ABCDNo letterPrimarySecondary / all-through

Leeds, LS9 7HD

Co-op Academy Leeds: common questions

Is Co-op Academy Leeds a good school?

By its published results, well below average: its GCSE results are better than 1% of England’s secondary schools (its letter is D−), with an Attainment 8 of 27.9 and 17% getting grade 5 or above in English and maths, against 47.3 and 47% for England’s schools. Ofsted: Good, November 2022.

How hard is it to get into Co-op Academy Leeds?

For September 2026, 95 families put Co-op Academy Leeds first and all of them were offered a place; 193 places were offered in all.

What is Co-op Academy Leeds’s Ofsted rating?

Its latest inspection outcome is Good (November 2022).

How much do houses cost near Co-op Academy Leeds?

Homes in its postcode sector, LS9 7, sold for a median £142,500 over the 36 months to August 2026 (78 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.