Lealands High School
Secondary · Foundation school · Ages 11–16 · Luton
Last distance offered · Year 7 2026
2.140 miles
Published by Luton Borough Council · offers on 2 March 2026
2025 figure 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Lealands High School is a secondary school in Luton for ages 11–16 (foundation school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 4 May 2023. Luton has published a last distance offered for this school for Year 7 2025 to 2026 entry.
Lealands High 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 | 2.140 mi |
| Year 7 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- In 2026, the last child offered a Year 7 place lived 2.140 miles away, the longest of 8 Luton secondary schools with a published last distance, and nearer than in 2025.
- Year 7 2026 had 194 first-choice applications for 204 offers; 187 offers went to first-choice families, and 7 first-choice families (4%) were not offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 34% of pupils got grade 5 or above in GCSE English and maths (England 45%), and the Attainment 8 score was 44.3 (England 46).
- That GCSE English and maths figure for 2024/25 was the 2nd lowest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest secondary schools in Luton.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Luton schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Sundon Park Road, Luton, LU3 3AL
- Type
- Foundation school
- Phase
- Secondary
- Ages
- 11–16
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Council
- Luton
- Pupils on roll
- 1,025 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 36.8% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 14.8
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 4 May 2023
Strengths
- “At Lealands, pupils learn to understand and respect others.”
- “Pupils new to the school say, ‘It is like joining a family’.”
- “Pupils from many backgrounds mix successfully and happily.”
To improve
- “Occasionally, however, they use activities that do not precisely or successfully enough teach the key knowledge pupils need to learn.”
- “Where this happens, expectations of what pupils achieve can be less high.”
- “Therefore, on occasion, pupils do not achieve as well as they could.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 15 June 2023 (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) | 34% | 45% |
| Attainment 8 score (2024/25) | 44.3 | 46 |
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: 194 first-preference applications, 204 offers in total, 187 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 Luton.
- Lea Manor High School 0.8 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Challney High School for Girls 1.4 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Challney High School for Boys 1.7 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- The Chalk Hills Academy 1.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Icknield High School 2.0 mi Good Last distance published
- Cardinal Newman Catholic School A Specialist Science College 2.0 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Denbigh High School 2.7 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Stopsley High School 3.0 mi Good Last distance published