The School Record

Published admissions and inspection figures for schools in England, from the DfE, Ofsted and local authorities.

New Bewerley Community School

URN 121791 · Primary · Community school · Leeds

Bismarck Drive, Leeds, LS11 6TB

Figures current as of 5 September 2026, the day we last checked a source behind this page.

How many families applied

Preferences expressed and offers made at Reception, as published by the Department for Education. These describe demand. They do not indicate whether any particular child would be offered a place.

In the 2025 intake, 34 families named New Bewerley Community School as their first preference, and the school made 34 offers.

That is 1.00 first preferences per place offered, which places it above 53% of schools admitting at Reception in England that year.

More first preferences per place than 53% of comparable schools position among schools in England admitting at Reception, 2025 intake

Little change. Across the 5 most recent years held, first preferences per place averaged 0.92 in 2021–2022 and 1.0 in 2024–2025.

Applications and offers at Reception, 12 intake years
Intake 1st preferences All preferences Offers made 1st prefs per place
2025 34 94 34 1.00
2024 36 132 36 1.00
2023 36 135 41 0.88
2022 43 127 46 0.93
2021 40 129 44 0.91
2020 51 137 56 0.91
2019 50 120 60 0.83
2018 56 152 60 0.93
2017 51 133 58 0.88
2016 41 102 52 0.79
2015 67 106 59 1.14
2014 44 121 59 0.75

“Offers made” counts the offers the school made. It is not the number of places the school had, so please do not read it as one.

Source: Department for Education: school-level applications and offers, checked 4 September 2026. All sources.

Ofsted

Ofsted changed its inspection framework: the current one publishes several graded areas and no single overall grade, while the previous one published an overall effectiveness grade. Each inspection below states which framework produced it.

Ofsted inspections from 2023 to 202620232026

Ofsted report card (current framework), 6 January 2026

Safeguarding: Met

Inclusion: Expected standard

Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention

Achievement: Needs attention

Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard

Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard

Early years: Expected standard

Leadership and governance: Expected standard

The current framework does not award an overall grade.

Ofsted's report for this school

Ofsted graded inspection (previous framework), 20 September 2023

Overall effectiveness: Requires improvement

Quality of education: Requires improvement

Behaviour and attitudes: Good

Personal development: Good

Leadership and management: Good

Early years: Good

Sixth form / post-16: 9

Ofsted's report for this school

Source: Ofsted: state-funded school inspections management information, checked 4 September 2026. All sources.

Exam results

Published by the Department for Education for the whole year group. Figures for smaller cohorts are withheld by DfE to protect pupil privacy and appear here as a dash, not a zero.

Key stage 2 (end of primary)
Year Expected standard in reading, writing & maths Higher standard Average reading score Average maths score
2024/25 39.0% 5.0% 103.0 100.0
2023/24 36.0% 0.0% 101.0 99.0
2022/23 32.0% 3.0% 98.0 99.0

Teachers staying and leaving

These come from the School Workforce Census, which follows each teacher into the next year. The numbers count full-time jobs, so a teacher who works half the week counts as half. They are not a count of people.

Census yearTeachers (FTE) Still there a year later Moved to another state school Left state schools Left in total
2024/25 20.1 15.3 1.8 3.0 23.9%
2023/24 21.3 17.7 2.6 1.0 16.9%
2022/23 21.6 12.6 3.0 6.0 41.7%
2021/22 22.1 18.1 3.0 1.0 18.1%
2020/21 20.6 18.6 0.0 2.0 9.7%
2019/20 19.0 16.6 1.0 1.4 12.6%

This is turnover among teachers. It says nothing about the headteacher or the senior leadership team: DfE publishes leadership retention separately and we do not hold it by school.

Catchment area

Nobody publishes a catchment area map for this school that we can read. That does not mean an address is outside its area. It means we hold no map, so we cannot tell you either way.

How places were allocated

Leeds publishes these figures on national offer day, the day families are told which school their child has been given. It is the only place that says how the school chose between the children who applied.

2021 intake

Places the school planned to fill: 60

Places offered: 45

The rule that decided the last place: All applicants admitted

2020 intake

Places the school planned to fill: 60

Places offered: 56

The rule that decided the last place: All applicants admitted

2019 intake

Places the school planned to fill: 60

Places offered: 60

The rule that decided the last place: All applicants admitted

2018 intake

Places the school planned to fill: 60

Places offered: 60

More children wanted a place than there were places: yes

The rule that decided the last place: Distance

The child who lived furthest away and still got in lived: 0.74 miles away (1188 m)

Leeds does not say whether it measures these across the map or along the route a child would walk, so neither do we.

2017 intake

Places the school planned to fill: 60

Places offered: 58

2015 intake

More children wanted a place than there were places: yes

The rule that decided the last place: Distance

The child who lived furthest away and still got in lived: 0.46 miles away (745 m)

2014 intake

More children wanted a place than there were places: yes

The rule that decided the last place: Distance

The child who lived furthest away and still got in lived: 0.24 miles away (388 m)

2013 intake

More children wanted a place than there were places: yes

The rule that decided the last place: Priority 5, this was not the child's nearest school

The child who lived furthest away and still got in lived: 1.51 miles away (2430 m)

2011 intake

More children wanted a place than there were places: yes

The rule that decided the last place: Priority 5, this was not the child's nearest school

The child who lived furthest away and still got in lived: 0.91 miles away (1466 m)

2009 intake

More children wanted a place than there were places: yes

The rule that decided the last place: Priority 5, this was not the child's nearest school

The child who lived furthest away and still got in lived: 0.64 miles away (1035 m)

Where it is

The 6 nearest primary schools we hold figures for, by straight-line distance from New Bewerley Community School.

Nearby and related

Where these figures come from

This page was made on 9 September 2026. "Retrieved" means the day we downloaded the data. It is not the day the data was written, so the figures can be about an earlier year. How we compare schools.