Dixons Unity Academy
Secondary · Academy sponsor led · Ages 11–16 · Leeds
Last distance offered · Year 7 2026
Every applicant was offered a place
From Leeds City Council · offers on 2 March 2026
2014–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Dixons Unity Academy is a secondary school in Leeds for ages 11–16 (academy sponsor led). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 2 July 2024. Leeds has published a last distance offered for this school for Year 7 2014 to 2026 entry.
Dixons Unity 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 | Every applicant was offered a place |
| 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 4 earlier figures.
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- Every applicant was offered a Year 7 place in 2026, as at 15 of the 39 other Leeds secondary schools with a published Year 7 2026 outcome.
- Grade 5 or above in GCSE English and maths in 2024/25: 24% (England 45%), the lowest of 9 schools, this one and the 8 nearest secondary schools in Leeds.
- Year 7 2026 had 142 first-choice applications for 195 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 53 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- 51.7% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 42.5% across 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
- Whingate Road, Leeds, LS12 3DS
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Phase
- Secondary
- Ages
- 11–16
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Council
- Leeds
- Pupils on roll
- 907 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 51.7% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 30.9
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 2 July 2024
Strengths
- “Staff have high expectations for pupils’ learning and behaviour.”
- “These expectations are being increasingly well realised.”
- “Pupils experience consistent routines and common approaches to teaching.”
To improve
- “Despite this, some pupils and their parents remain concerned about bullying.”
- “Nevertheless, overall attendance is too low and too many pupils are persistently absent.”
- “Although there remains some variation in how well these learning strategies are used, there is an increasing consistency across all departments.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 26 July 2024 (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) | 24% | 45% |
| Attainment 8 score (2024/25) | 36 | 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: 142 first-preference applications, 195 offers in total, 142 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.
- The Farnley Academy 1.0 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Crawshaw Academy 2.0 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Pudsey Grammar School 2.3 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Leeds West Academy 2.3 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Leeds City Academy 2.5 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Abbey Grange Church of England Academy 2.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Lawnswood School 2.9 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- The Ruth Gorse Academy 3.0 mi School remains Outstanding Last distance published