Whingate Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 3–11 · Leeds
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
0.484 miles
Published by Leeds City Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2011–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Whingate Primary School is a primary school in Leeds for ages 3–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 12 October 2023. Leeds has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2011 to 2026 entry.
Whingate 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 | 0.484 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
- Reception 2026: the last child offered a place lived 0.484 miles away, 18th shortest of the 68 Leeds primary schools with a published Reception 2026 last distance (middle figure 0.71 miles).
- The Reception 2026 last distance was nearer than in 2025, and every applicant was offered a place in 3 of the 13 years with a published outcome.
- Reception 2026 drew 69 first-choice applications for 60 offers; 60 offers went to first-choice families, and 9 first-choice families (13%) were not offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 50% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 0% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
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
- Whingate Road, Leeds, LS12 3DS
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- Leeds
- Pupils on roll
- 464 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 38.4% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 21.2
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 12 October 2023
Strengths
- “Whingate is a friendly school.”
- “The school has personalised its aspirational curriculum to include important themes.”
- “Adults have high expectations of pupils’ behaviour.”
To improve
- “Pupils in Year 6 in 2022 did not achieve as well as they might have.”
- “However, poor attendance continues to impact on these outcomes.”
- “However, teachers do not consciously build on what pupils have learned previously.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 17 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) | 50% | 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: 69 first-preference applications, 60 offers in total, 60 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.
- Christ Church Upper Armley Church of England Primary School 0.4 mi Good Last distance published
- Five Lanes Primary School 0.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Ryecroft Academy 0.7 mi Not judged Last distance published
- St Bartholomew's CofE Voluntary Controlled Primary School 0.7 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Lower Wortley Primary School 0.7 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Armley Park Primary School 0.8 mi Good Last distance published
- Cobden Primary School 0.8 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Greenhill Primary School 0.9 mi Not judged Last distance published