Lowtown Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 5–11 · Pudsey, Leeds
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
1.242 miles
Published by Leeds City Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2011–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Lowtown Primary School is a primary school in Pudsey, Leeds for ages 5–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 2 March 2023. Leeds has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2011 to 2026 entry.
Lowtown Primary School catchment area: last distance offered
Parents often call this the catchment area: it's how far from the school the last child offered a place lived. It changes every year.
| Entry | Last distance offered |
|---|---|
| Reception 2026 | 1.242 mi |
| Reception 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2023 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2022 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2021 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2020 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2019 | 🔒 With a pass |
And 8 earlier figures.
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- For 2026 Reception, the last child offered a place lived 1.242 miles away, the 18th longest of 68 Leeds primary schools with a published last distance (middle figure 0.71 miles).
- The 2026 Reception figure was further out than in 2025 and in 2011, and was the longest of the 14 years with a published distance.
- In 2026 Reception there were 30 first-choice applications for 30 offers: 26 offers went to first-choice families, and 4 first-choice families were not offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 86% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), the highest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest primary schools in Leeds.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Leeds schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Kent Road, Pudsey, LS28 9BB
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 5–11
- Council
- Leeds
- Pupils on roll
- 208 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 13% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 22.9
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 2 March 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils enjoy their learning in this school.”
- “The curriculum is being regularly refined and improved.”
- “Leaders are ambitious for pupils academically and in relation to their personal development.”
To improve
- “Some of these checks are not precise enough.”
- “They do not give leaders sufficient information about how well pupils that are in danger of falling behind in their”
- “learning, including some pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND), are achieving in the curriculum.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 17 May 2023 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Exam results
| Measure | School | England |
|---|---|---|
| Key stage 2 · reading, writing and maths, expected standard (2024/25) | 86% | 62% |
Department for Education school performance data. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 30 first-preference applications, 30 offers in total, 26 offers to first-preference applicants.
Department for Education, school-level applications and offers, figures on national offer day. Earlier years are in the pass.
Nearby primary schools
Straight-line distance, in Leeds.
- St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy 0.3 mi Good Last distance published
- Swinnow Primary School 0.3 mi Requires improvement Last distance published
- Pudsey Primrose Hill Primary School 0.6 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Greenside Primary School 0.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Park Spring Primary School 0.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Southroyd Primary and Nursery School 0.7 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Stanningley Primary School 0.9 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Pudsey Waterloo Primary 0.9 mi Good Last distance published