Cockburn Laurence Calvert Academy
Secondary · Free schools · Ages 11–16 · Leeds
Last distance offered · Year 7 2026
1.012 miles
Last place: Nearest high school · Published by Leeds City Council · offers on 2 March 2026
This distance applies only to children in the “Nearest high school” priority. The last place went to that group, so no child in a lower priority got a place, however close they lived.
2022–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Cockburn Laurence Calvert Academy is a secondary school in Leeds for ages 11–16 (free schools). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 4 June 2024. Leeds has published a last distance offered for this school for Year 7 2022 to 2026 entry.
Cockburn Laurence Calvert 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 | 1.012 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 |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- For Year 7 in 2026, the last place offered went to a child whose nearest secondary school it was, living 1.012 miles away.
- That was the 5th shortest of 24 Leeds secondary schools with a published Year 7 2026 last distance; the distance has stayed close to the year before each year since 2024.
- Year 7 2026 drew 231 first-choice applications for 201 offers; 184 offers went to first-choice families and 47 first-choice families (20%) were not offered a place.
- 47.6% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 30.9% 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
- Ring Road, Middleton, Leeds, LS10 4AX
- Type
- Free schools
- Phase
- Secondary
- Ages
- 11–16
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Council
- Leeds
- Pupils on roll
- 1,023 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 47.6% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 19.4
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 4 June 2024
Strengths
- “Cockburn Laurence Calvert Academy is an inclusive and welcoming school.”
- “Pupils are happy and confident.”
- “Leaders are ambitious for what pupils can achieve both personally and academically.”
To improve
- “Despite the school’s current approach to revisiting and embedding previous learning, some pupils do not remember what they have been taught over time.”
- “This limits the depth of understanding pupils achieve in some subjects.”
- “However, since the start of the academic year, attendance has declined for some groups of pupils.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 8 July 2024 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Year 7 entry: 231 first-preference applications, 201 offers in total, 184 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.
- Cockburn John Charles Academy 1.3 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Cockburn School 1.4 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Rodillian Academy 1.7 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Woodkirk Academy 2.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- University Technical College Leeds 2.8 mi Good
- The Ruth Gorse Academy 3.0 mi School remains Outstanding Last distance published
- Oulton Academy 3.0 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- The Morley Academy 3.1 mi Not judged Last distance published