Swinnow Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 2–11 · 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 🔒
Swinnow Primary School is a primary school in Leeds for ages 2–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Requires improvement, from the inspection on 16 April 2024. Leeds has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2011 to 2026 entry.
Swinnow 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
- Every Reception 2026 applicant was offered a place, as at 150 of the 219 other Leeds primary schools with a published Reception 2026 outcome.
- Places had run out, with a last distance published, in 12 of the 15 earlier Reception years; the biggest swing came between 2018 and 2019.
- There are 12.8 pupils per teacher, against a middle figure of 20.4 across the 8 nearest primary schools in Leeds.
- In 2024/25, 61% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), 3rd lowest 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
- Swinnow Road, Leeds, LS13 4PG
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 2–11
- Council
- Leeds
- Pupils on roll
- 231 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 37.2% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 12.8
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Requires improvement Inspected 16 April 2024
Strengths
- “Relationships between staff and pupils are warm and caring in this school.”
- “Pupils have confidence that adults will help them if they have concerns or worries.”
- “Pupils enjoy playing cooperatively with each other at playtimes and lunchtimes.”
To improve
- “However, what pupils are taught in some subjects and how it is taught need development.”
- “The school does not have a clear picture of which areas of the curriculum this development needs to happen.”
- “This positive start is not then continued into key stage 1 and 2.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 10 June 2024 (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) | 61% | 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: 22 first-preference applications, 22 offers in total, 22 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.
- Lowtown Primary School 0.3 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy 0.3 mi Good Last distance published
- Park Spring Primary School 0.5 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Stanningley Primary School 0.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Pudsey Primrose Hill Primary School 0.7 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Bramley Park Academy 0.7 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Summerfield Primary School 0.9 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Greenside Primary School 0.9 mi School remains Good Last distance published