Shire Oak VC Primary School
Primary · Voluntary controlled school · Ages 4–11 · Leeds
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
0.577 miles
Published by Leeds City Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2011–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Shire Oak VC Primary School is a primary school in Leeds for ages 4–11 (voluntary controlled school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 20 June 2024. Leeds has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2011 to 2026 entry.
Shire Oak VC 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 | 0.577 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
- The last child offered a Reception place in 2026 lived 0.577 miles from the school, the 26th shortest of 68 Leeds primary schools with a published Reception 2026 last distance.
- The Reception last distance was further from the school in 2026 than in 2025 and nearer than in 2011, and it swung sharply between some years.
- 2026 Reception entry had 35 first-choice applications for 30 offers: 27 offers went to first-choice families and 8 first-choice families (23%) were not offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 93% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), highest 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
- Wood Lane, Headingley, Wood Lane, Leeds, LS6 2DT
- Type
- Voluntary controlled school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Religious character
- Church of England
- Council
- Leeds
- Pupils on roll
- 209 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 12.4% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 21.8
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 20 June 2024
Strengths
- “Shire Oak is a nurturing and inclusive school.”
- “It receives high praise from pupils and families.”
- “They are overwhelmingly proud of the school and the care they receive from adults.”
To improve
- “However, in some foundation subjects, pupils do not regularly revisit previous subject learning.”
- “that pupils sometimes struggle to connect what they have already learned in earlier topics with new learning.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 9 July 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) | 93% | 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: 35 first-preference applications, 30 offers in total, 27 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.
- Spring Bank Primary School 0.4 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Brudenell Primary School 0.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Weetwood Primary School 0.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Meanwood Church of England Primary School 0.6 mi Good Last distance published
- Quarry Mount Primary School 0.9 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Alder Tree Primary Academy 1.0 mi Good Last distance published
- Burley St Matthias Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School 1.0 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Kirkstall Valley Primary School 1.1 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published