Grimes Dyke Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 3–11 · Leeds
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
Every applicant was offered a place
From Leeds City Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2011–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Grimes Dyke Primary School is a primary school in Leeds for ages 3–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Not judged, from the inspection on 4 February 2025. Leeds has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2011 to 2026 entry.
Grimes Dyke 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 | Every applicant was offered a place |
| 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
- In 2024/25, 43% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), the lowest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest primary schools in Leeds.
- Every applicant for Reception in 2026 was offered a place, but places ran out in 5 of the 9 earlier years with a published outcome.
- Reception 2026 saw 25 first-choice applications for 28 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 3 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- 51.5% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 27.1% across 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
- Stanks Drive, Leeds, LS14 5BY
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- Leeds
- Pupils on roll
- 227 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 51.5% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 19.8
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Not judged Inspected 4 February 2025
Strengths
- “Grimes Dyke Primary School is a special place where helping pupils and families to develop a sense of belonging to ‘Team GD’ is valued.”
- “Pupils are happy and safe here.”
- “Pupils are known well and cherished.”
To improve
- “However, the curriculum in some areas does not yet identify the important knowledge that the school wants pupils to know and remember.”
- “However, some of this work is still in the early stages.”
- “Therefore, while pupils’ outcomes are improving, they are still not high enough in some areas.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 21 March 2025 (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) | 43% | 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: 25 first-preference applications, 28 offers in total, 25 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.
- Swarcliffe Primary School 0.4 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- White Laith Primary School 0.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Scholes (Elmet) Primary School 0.6 mi Good Last distance published
- St Theresa's Catholic Primary School 0.8 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Manston Primary 0.8 mi Good Last distance published
- Our Lady of Good Counsel Catholic Primary School 0.9 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Manston St James Primary Academy 1.0 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Fieldhead Carr Primary School 1.0 mi School remains Good Last distance published