Lift Cottingley
Primary · Academy sponsor led · 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 🔒
Lift Cottingley is a primary school in Leeds for ages 2–11 (academy sponsor led). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 12 June 2024. Leeds has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2011 to 2026 entry.
Lift Cottingley 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 applicant for Reception was offered a place in 2026, but places ran out in 3 of the 7 earlier years with a published outcome.
- In 2024/25, 82% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 18% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- For Reception in 2026 there were 24 first-choice applications for 26 offers, and every first-choice family was offered a place.
- Among pupils, 48.3% are eligible for free school meals, with 16.4 pupils per teacher, against middle figures of 30.7% and 21.4 across 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
- Dulverton Grove, Cottingley, Leeds, LS11 0HU
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 2–11
- Council
- Leeds
- Pupils on roll
- 242 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 48.3% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 16.4
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 12 June 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils in this school are surrounded by caring adults.”
- “The respect and care shown by adults to pupils is mirrored in how pupils treat each other.”
- “As one pupil said, ‘Teachers are kind, they speak to you nicely all the time.”
To improve
- “However, the school does not use this information as well as it could.”
- “Sometimes, the school does not address some pupils’ misunderstandings or take some pupils’ learning further.”
- “Some pupils do not attend school as well as they need to.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 23 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) | 82% | 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: 24 first-preference applications, 26 offers in total, 24 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.
- Beeston Primary School 0.5 mi Good Last distance published
- Hugh Gaitskell Primary School 0.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Churwell Primary Academy 0.9 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St Anthony's Catholic Primary School, Beeston 0.9 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Lower Wortley Primary School 1.2 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Park View Primary Academy 1.3 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Cockburn Ingram Road Academy 1.4 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Greenmount Primary School 1.4 mi Not judged Last distance published