Wigton Moor Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 4–11 · Leeds
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
0.703 miles
Published by Leeds City Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2011–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Wigton Moor Primary School is a primary school in Leeds for ages 4–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Outstanding, from the inspection on 4 October 2023. Leeds has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2011 to 2026 entry.
Wigton Moor 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 | 0.703 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
- The last child offered a Reception place in 2026 lived 0.703 miles away, the 33rd shortest of 68 Leeds primary schools with a published last distance (middle figure 0.71 miles).
- The 2026 Reception last distance was nearer the school than in 2025 and in 2011, and it swung sharply between some years.
- There were 72 first-choice applications for 60 offers for Reception 2026; 57 offers went to first-choice families, and 15 first-choice families were not offered a place.
- Reading, writing and maths 2024/25: 90% at the expected standard, highest of 8 schools (this one and the 7 of the 8 nearest primary schools in Leeds that have results).
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
- Barfield Crescent, Wigton Moor Primary School, Leeds, LS17 8RU
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Council
- Leeds
- Pupils on roll
- 416 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 9.6% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 24.8
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Outstanding Inspected 4 October 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils and staff exemplify the school motto ‘everyone learns and everyone achieves, because everyone matters’.”
- “At Wigton Moor, they really do!”
- “They are polite, sensible and considerate of others.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 16 November 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) | 90% | 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: 72 first-preference applications, 60 offers in total, 57 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.
- Highfield Primary School 0.5 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Talbot Primary School 1.0 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Moortown Primary School 1.0 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Primley Wood Primary School 1.0 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Brodetsky Primary School 1.1 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Moor Allerton Hall Primary School 1.2 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Allerton CofE Primary School 1.3 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy 1.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published