North Leamington School
Secondary · Academy converter · Ages 11–18 · Leamington Spa, Warwickshire
Last distance offered · Year 7 2026
1.48 miles
Published by Warwickshire County Council · offers on 2 March 2026
2017–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
North Leamington School is a secondary school in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire for ages 11–18 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Standards maintained, from the inspection on 5 March 2025. Warwickshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Year 7 2017 to 2026 entry.
North Leamington 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 | 1.48 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 2017 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- For Year 7 2026, the last child offered a place lived 1.48 miles from the school, the 5th shortest of 32 Warwickshire secondary schools with a published last distance (middle figure 4.61 miles).
- The 2026 Year 7 last distance was further from the school than in 2025, and nearer than in 2017.
- 2026 Year 7 entry had 247 first-choice applications for 228 offers; 209 offers went to first-choice families and 38 first-choice families were not offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 68% of pupils got grade 5 or above in GCSE English and maths (England 45%), and the Attainment 8 score was 57.4 (England 46).
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Warwickshire schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Sandy Lane, Blackdown, Leamington Spa, CV32 6RD
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- Ages
- 11–18
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Council
- Warwickshire
- Pupils on roll
- 1,482 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 15.5% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 21.1
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Standards maintained Inspected 5 March 2025
Strengths
- “Pupils are proud to be part of this caring and purposeful school community.”
- “They enjoy their learning and make every effort to meet the school’s high expectations.”
- “The school’s ‘CORE’ values of commitment, opportunity, respect and excellence are at the heart of all that goes on at North Leamington.”
To improve
- “However, pupils do not always remember what they have learned in PSHE.”
- “Some do not have a secure knowledge of fundamental British values.”
- “Although they might, for example, have some notions of the rule of law and democracy, they cannot articulate why these are worthwhile values.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 7 April 2025 (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) | 68% | 45% |
| Attainment 8 score (2024/25) | 57.4 | 46 |
| A level average grade (2024/25) | B- | B- |
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: 247 first-preference applications, 228 offers in total, 209 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 Warwickshire.
- Trinity Catholic School 1.3 mi Requires improvement Last distance published
- Campion School 2.4 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Myton School 2.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Kenilworth School and Sixth Form 2.8 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Southam College 6.8 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Bilton School 10.5 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Ash Green School 10.6 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Henley In Arden School 10.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published
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