Primary maps
You can use our interactive map to help work out what choices of schools you have.
Each marker represents a primary school and the polygons represent nearest school catchment areas. When you click the marker, where data is available, it will show where children were taken from for the chosen data year. Hovering over a marker will provide access to additional data on the school.
More detail on how to interpret the map is given further down the page below the map.
Please note that data is before any post-offer day bulges (for example the 3 Roundhay bulges in 2015). Additionally, there are some changes needed to a few schools prior to 2014 to reflect schools closing and opening etc. Data is raw data as provided based on typed word documents received from the council or data from data mill - there is therefore a possibility of the odd typo - it is not possible to verify the accuracy of any data.
Notes
Prior to offer data being available (approximately 1 June each year)
When the data is available on the number of nearest children a 'heat map' is shown. This should be interpreted as follows:
- Red polygions are areas with substantially more children than places and are therefore at higher risk of being oversubscribed from children within the polygon.
- Blue polygons are areas with substantially fewer children than places and therefore cannot be oversubscribed from children within the polygon but could still be oversubscribed from children nearby.
- Green polygons are those with a similar number of children to the places available.
Please use this information with judgement and reviewing the historic numbers and cut-offs. Some schools with large numbers of children in the area are still undersubscribed and other with few children still have fairly small catchments as they are preferenced highly by other nearby families just outside of the nearest school polygon.
After offer data is available (approximately 1 June each year)
The map shows cut off data for schools or, optionally and where available, a places heat map based on the number of children nearest to each school as decribed above.
The Leeds admission policy allocates children to schools broadly as follows:
- Looked after children and children with special needs that can only be met at a certain school
- Siblings of children already in school ranked by distance from the school
- Children for whom the school is nearest ranked by distance from the school
- Children for whom the school is not their nearest ranked by distance away from the school
The full admissions policy which has some additional details for certain schools can be found here.
The map shows details of groups 3 and 4 above. The blue polygons are the nearest school catchments. Red zones are where children who got in under group 3 lived. Green zones are where children who got in under group 4 lived.
For those schools where anyone preferencing the school got in the marker is instead shown as green.
Therefore in order to get into a school you need to:
- Choose one with a green marker; or
- Be in the red zone for a school; or
- Be in the green circle for a school; or
- Get into one of the faith (or in some cases academy) schools under their own specific admission policy.
If you can't meet these criteria with one of your 5 preferences then you will not be allocated a school on your list and will instead be allocated the nearest school that is left after all preferences have been processed. This may mean a school some distance away and will certainly mean a school that is less popular so please consider very carefully if you are planning to leave a local but less popular school completely off your 5 preferences.