The Farnley Academy
Secondary · Academy sponsor led · Ages 11–18 · Leeds
Last distance offered · Year 7 2026
1.704 miles
Last place: Any other children · Published by Leeds City Council · offers on 2 March 2026
2015–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
The Farnley Academy is a secondary school in Leeds for ages 11–18 (academy sponsor led). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Outstanding, from the inspection on 19 September 2023. Leeds has published a last distance offered for this school for Year 7 2015 to 2026 entry.
The Farnley Academy 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 | 1.704 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 3 earlier figures.
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- In Year 7 2026 the last child offered a place, under one of its admission criteria, lived 1.704 miles from the school, further than in 2025 and 2015.
- In Year 7 2026 that 1.704 miles was the 12th shortest of 24 Leeds secondary schools with a published last distance, where the middle figure was 1.73 miles.
- Year 7 2026 had 317 first-choice applications for 295 offers: 278 offers went to first-choice families and 39 first-choice families were not offered a place.
- 51% got grade 5 or above in GCSE English and maths in 2024/25 (England 45%), 2nd highest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest secondary 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
- Chapel Lane, Farnley, Leeds, LS12 5EU
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Phase
- Secondary
- Ages
- 11–18
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Council
- Leeds
- Pupils on roll
- 1,492 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 35.2% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 16.1
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Outstanding Inspected 19 September 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils proudly attend this aspirational and visionary school.”
- “They know that they are well supported to achieve the high expectations that the school has for them.”
- “Pupils model the school’s core values of ‘ambitious, resilient and kind’ in everything they do.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 11 October 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) | 51% | 45% |
| Attainment 8 score (2024/25) | 49.1 | 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: 317 first-preference applications, 295 offers in total, 278 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.
- Dixons Unity Academy 1.0 mi Good Last distance published
- Crawshaw Academy 1.6 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Pudsey Grammar School 2.0 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Leeds West Academy 2.5 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Bruntcliffe Academy 2.6 mi Not judged Last distance published
- The Morley Academy 2.9 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Cockburn School 3.0 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Co-op Academy Priesthorpe 3.3 mi Good Last distance published