Crawshaw Academy

Academy sponsor led·Secondary school Pudsey, Leeds·LS28 9HU
Composite score
56.5
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#1,680
National rank
#156
In Yorkshire and The Humber
#27
In Leeds
Top 53%
Nationally

Performance (KS4 GCSE)

Attainment 8 score
45.2
National avg ≈ 46
Progress 8 score
—
% achieving 9–5 in English & Maths
46%
% achieving 9–4 in English & Maths
66%
% EBacc grade 5+
7%
EBacc average points score
3.82

Ofsted judgements

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Quality of education
Requires improvement
Behaviour and attitudes
Requires improvement
Personal development
Good
Leadership and management
Requires improvement
Safeguarding effective?
Yes

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
100%
164 first choices, 196 places
First choices per place
0.84
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
646
any preference, for 196 places
Applications from another council area
4%
First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.15
00.511.5
1 per place
0.7720220.8120230.7120240.6820250.842026

Red dashed line = one first choice per place. How to read this

Every child who put Crawshaw Academy first was offered a place in 2026, so no distance cut-off applied: living further away did not cost a place that year.

Application figures: DfE, school level applications and offers (2026 intake).

School profile

Age range
11–16
Pupils on roll
1,109
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None
Admissions
Non-Selective

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
24.8%
Typical secondary: 27.5%
% EAL
6.8%
Typical secondary: 12.0%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
15.2%
Typical secondary: 13.7%
% with an EHC plan
1.7%
Typical secondary: 2.9%

Attendance

Overall absence
11.6%
Typical secondary: 8.9%
Persistently absent
31.4%
Typical secondary: 25.7%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
18.7
Typical secondary: 16.7
Spend per pupil
£7,364
Typical secondary: £7,815

“Typical” = the median secondary school in England. What this means

What pupils do next

The share of this school's Year 11 leavers in education, training or employment for at least two terms afterwards.

In education, training or work
89%
195 pupils tracked
Stayed in education
84%
Apprenticeship
5%
Employment
1%

DfE, KS4 destination measures.

Nearby secondary schools

Location

School overview

Crawshaw Academy is a secondary school serving Pudsey, Leeds, classified by the DfE as a sponsor-led academy. It has 1,109 pupils aged 11 to 16 on roll. In the most recent GCSE results, pupils achieved an average Attainment 8 score of 45.2, broadly in line with the national average of 46. That marks an improvement of 2.3 points in its Attainment 8 score on the previous year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it around the middle of secondary schools nationally.

46% of pupils achieved a grade 5 or above in both English and maths, in line with the national average of about 45%. 66% achieved a standard pass (grade 4+) in English and maths. Crawshaw Academy was not oversubscribed for September 2026: all 164 families who put it first were offered a place. After Year 11, 89% of its leavers went on to education, an apprenticeship or work that they stayed in for at least two terms. Overall pupil absence was 11.6%. There are about 18.7 pupils per teacher. Crawshaw Academy does not currently have a recent graded Ofsted judgement on record (often the case for newer or recently converted schools), so it is worth asking when its next inspection is expected. This overview is generated automatically from the latest published DfE performance tables and Ofsted data; figures are rounded, and you can check the originals via the official links above.

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