Ryecroft Academy
Primary · Academy sponsor led · Ages 4–11 · Leeds
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
0.858 miles
Last place: Any Other Children · Published by Leeds City Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2011–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Ryecroft Academy is a primary school in Leeds for ages 4–11 (academy sponsor led). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Not judged, from the inspection on 18 March 2025. Leeds has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2011 to 2026 entry.
Ryecroft 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 |
|---|---|
| Reception 2026 | 0.858 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
- 41.7% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 35.5% across the 8 nearest primary schools in Leeds.
- In Reception 2026 the last child offered a place, among children in no priority group, lived 0.858 miles away: 28th longest of the 68 Leeds primary schools with a published last distance.
- Reception 2026 had 47 first-choice applications for 44 offers; 43 offers went to first-choice families and 4 first-choice families (9%) were not offered a place.
- At the end of primary in 2024/25, 49% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 0% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
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
- Ryecroft Academy, Stonebridge Grove, Leeds, LS12 5AW
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Council
- Leeds
- Pupils on roll
- 350 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 41.7% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 19.9
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Not judged Inspected 18 March 2025
Strengths
- “The school provides a positive, welcoming learning environment.”
- “This enables pupils, including those with special educational needs and / or disabilities (SEND), to flourish and grow.”
- “The school’s drive to instil a sense of ambition and aspiration in pupils is at the heart of all that it does.”
To improve
- “The low starting points for some groups of pupils means that not all pupils achieve national expectations by the time they leave the school.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 9 May 2025 (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) | 49% | 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: 47 first-preference applications, 44 offers in total, 43 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.
- Lawns Park Primary School 0.4 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Greenhill Primary School 0.6 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Whingate Primary School 0.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Cobden Primary School 0.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Park Spring Primary School 0.9 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Lower Wortley Primary School 1.0 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Christ The King Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy 1.0 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Christ Church Upper Armley Church of England Primary School 1.0 mi Good Last distance published