Benton Park School
In 2026 offers reached 3.48 miles. Enter your postcode to see where your home falls.
Bars: how far the last place offered reached each year. Check your postcode and each year turns green where a place reached your home. Source: Leeds City Council offer-day figures, 2024 to 2026.
Summary
The key facts, in one place- Inspection
- Requires improvement, October 2023
- Results
- 47.5 attainment 8; 50% english and maths grade 5 or above
- Size
- 1,516 pupils; 274 places a year; classes of 20
- Run by
- Moorlands Learning Trust
- Type
- Academy converter
- Ages
- 11 to 18 · Mixed
At a glance
Against Leeds and EnglandOverview
Getting in
- 236 families put it first for 274 places; 235 of them got in
- We hold no catchment map for this school, so we can't say which addresses are inside it.
Quality
- Requires improvement
- Attainment 8: 47.5 (England 47.4) (county 47.6)
- English and maths grade 5 or above: 50% (England 48%) (county 50%)
- Progress, set against pupils who started with the same results: average
Daily life
- Classes average 20.2 pupils; 24% of classes have more than 30
- 16.9 pupils for each teacher
- Nearest stops, in a straight line: bus 162 m
- 22 police-reported road collisions within 500 m (0 fatal, 2 serious)
- Air: nitrogen dioxide 10.7 µg/m³, PM2.5 6.8 (1 km square, background level)
- Absence and suspension figures are not published for this school (DfE covers state schools only).
Who runs it
- Moorlands Learning Trust, with 10 schools
- Opened as an academy (converter) on 1 August 2025
- Replaced Benton Park School (URN 108083)
- We can't compare results before and after it converted: we hold results for only one side of the date, because DfE publishes a few years at a time.
Getting in
How far offers reached
How far away the last child offered a place under the distance rule lived, as the council measures it. It changes every year with who applies: a record, not a promise. Children with a higher priority can be offered places from further away.Year 7. Distance of the last child offered a place on offer day. What the last distance means →
Offer day, year by year
| Entry | Year | Places | Applications | Offered | Refused | Last distance (miles) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year 7 | 2026 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Year 7 | 2025 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Year 7 | 2024 | 300 | — | 300 | — | 3.48 |
Source: Council offer-day figures: Leeds City Council, 2024 to 2026. A dash is a figure the council does not publish, not nought. Distances are straight lines from the school.
Applications and offers, DfE
| Entry | Year | Places | First choices | Any choice | First choices offered |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year 7 | 2026 | 274 | 236 | 827 | 235 |
Source: DfE, Primary and secondary school applications and offers (school level, Open Government Licence), 2026 to 2026. Families name up to three schools, so most applications are somebody's second or third choice.
Results
Results
| Measure | This school | England | Council | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Attainment 8 | 47.5 | 47.4 | 47.6 | 2025/2026 |
| English and maths grade 5 or above | 50% | 48% | 50% | 2025/2026 |
Source: DfE school performance tables, 2025/2026.
League table place
| Table | League rank |
|---|---|
| GCSE (key stage 4) | (25/45) |
| A level (16 to 18) | (16/23) |
Source: DfE school performance tables: the newest year's results, place among the council's schools of the same phase.
Inspections
| Date | Kind | Outcome |
|---|---|---|
| 25 October 2023 | Graded inspection | Requires improvement |
Source: Ofsted, 2023.
Sixth form
Oxford and Cambridge: 10 places, 2023.
Daily life
Class sizes and staff
| Measure | Figure | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Average class size | 20.2 | 2025/26 |
| Classes over 30 pupils | 24% | 2025/26 |
| Pupils for each teacher | 16.9 | November 2025 |
Source: DfE, school workforce; school census, 2025/26.
Stops nearby
| Kind | Nearest (metres, straight line) |
|---|---|
| bus | 162 |
Source: DfT, NaPTAN (National Public Transport Access Nodes), current. A stop across a railway or main road may be a long walk. Bus frequency is not held.
Road collisions within 500 m
| Year | Collisions |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 3 |
| 2024 | 3 |
| 2023 | 8 |
| 2022 | 4 |
| 2021 | 4 |
Source: DfT, Road safety data (STATS19): collisions and casualties, last five years, 2021 to 2025. 2 serious and 0 fatal in all; 5 involved a pedestrian, 5 a cyclist. Only collisions with an injury reported to police are counted.
Air quality
| Pollutant | Annual mean (µg/m³) | Year |
|---|---|---|
| NO2 | 10.7 | 2024 |
| PM10 | 10.3 | 2024 |
| PM25 | 6.8 | 2024 |
Source: DEFRA, Pollution Climate Mapping (PCM) 1 km background maps. A 1 km background figure: not the air at the school gate beside a busy road.
Pupils
Who goes there
| Measure | Share of pupils | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Eligible for free school meals | 15% | 2025/26 |
| First language other than English | 6.1% | 2025/26 |
| SEN support | 16% | 2025/26 |
| Education, health and care plan | 1.8% | 2025/26 |
| Girls | 50% | 2025/26 |
Source: DfE, schools, pupils and their characteristics; special educational needs, 2025/26.
Who runs it
Who runs it
- Moorlands Learning Trust, with 10 schools
- Opened as an academy (converter) on 1 August 2025
- Replaced Benton Park School (URN 108083)
- We can't compare results before and after it converted: we hold results for only one side of the date, because DfE publishes a few years at a time.
Area
Homes in reach of this schoolLook up any home near here: its sales, an open-data valuation, and which schools it keeps in reach.Search homes →Sources
- Council offer-day figures: Leeds City Council
- DEFRA, Pollution Climate Mapping (PCM) 1 km background maps
- DfE school performance tables
- DfE school performance tables: the newest year's results, place among the council's schools of the same phase
- DfE, Primary and secondary school applications and offers (school level, Open Government Licence)
- DfE, school workforce; school census
- DfE, schools, pupils and their characteristics; special educational needs
- DfT, NaPTAN (National Public Transport Access Nodes)
- DfT, Road safety data (STATS19): collisions and casualties, last five years
- Ofsted
- School register: DfE Get Information about Schools (this school)
- How we check these figures: How we know
More in schools in Leeds and the Leeds league table. School register: DfE Get Information about Schools, updated 17 October 2026.
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