Guiseley School
Secondary · Foundation school · Ages 11–18 · Leeds
Last distance offered · Year 7 2026
2.480 miles
Last place: Any other children · Published by Leeds City Council · offers on 2 March 2026
2014–2025 trend 🔒
Guiseley School is a secondary school in Leeds for ages 11–18 (foundation school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Standards maintained, from the inspection on 6 November 2024. Leeds has published a last distance offered for this school for Year 7 2014 to 2026 entry.
Guiseley 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 |
|---|---|
| Year 7 2026 | 2.480 mi |
| Year 7 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2023 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2022 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2021 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2020 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2019 | 🔒 With a pass |
And 4 earlier figures.
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- For Year 7 in 2026, the last child offered a place under one of its admission criteria lived 2.480 miles away.
- That was the 7th longest of 24 Leeds secondary schools with a published Year 7 2026 last distance (middle figure 1.73 miles).
- The Year 7 last distance in 2026 was further than in 2025 and in 2015, and the 2026 figure was the longest of the 7 years with a published distance.
- Year 7 2026 had 221 first-choice applications for 227 offers; 196 offers went to first-choice families and 25 first-choice families (11%) were not offered a place.
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
- Fieldhead Road, Guiseley, Leeds, LS20 8DT
- Type
- Foundation school
- Phase
- Secondary
- Ages
- 11–18
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Council
- Leeds
- Pupils on roll
- 1,431 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 11% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 15.8
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Standards maintained Inspected 6 November 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils enjoy coming to this school.”
- “They feel at home in its respectful and kind culture.”
- “Pupils respond well to leaders’ high expectations.”
To improve
- “However, some teachers do not ensure that pupils use their advice about how to improve their knowledge well enough.”
- “Pupils do not always know what they need to do to improve.”
- “Increased opportunities to strengthen reading across the curriculum are required.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 3 December 2024 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Exam results
| Measure | School | England |
|---|---|---|
| GCSE English and maths, grade 5 or above (2024/25) | 52% | 45% |
| Attainment 8 score (2024/25) | 49.6 | 46 |
| A level average grade (2024/25) | C+ | B- |
Department for Education school performance data. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Year 7 entry: 221 first-preference applications, 227 offers in total, 196 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 secondary schools
Straight-line distance, in Leeds.
- St. Mary's Menston, a Catholic Voluntary Academy 0.8 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Benton Park School 1.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Otley Prince Henry's Grammar School Specialist Language College 3.0 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Horsforth School 3.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Co-op Academy Priesthorpe 4.4 mi Good Last distance published
- Ralph Thoresby School 4.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Leeds West Academy 4.7 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Abbey Grange Church of England Academy 5.1 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published