The School Record

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

The Farnley Academy

URN 137577 · Secondary · Academy sponsor led · Leeds

Chapel Lane, Leeds, LS12 5EU

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 Year 7, 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, 353 families named The Farnley Academy as their first preference, and the school made 298 offers.

That is 1.18 first preferences per place offered, which places it above 80% of schools admitting at Year 7 in England that year.

More first preferences per place than 80% of comparable schools position among schools in England admitting at Year 7, 2025 intake

Little change. Across the 5 most recent years held, first preferences per place averaged 1.17 in 2021–2022 and 1.09 in 2024–2025.

Applications and offers at Year 7, 12 intake years
Intake 1st preferences All preferences Offers made 1st prefs per place
2025 353 766 298 1.18
2024 298 715 300 0.99
2023 289 723 300 0.96
2022 346 783 300 1.15
2021 287 648 242 1.19
2020 314 764 300 1.05
2019 293 612 298 0.98
2018 337 645 240 1.40
2017 301 574 243 1.24
2016 323 581 242 1.33
2015 341 528 241 1.41
2014 231 356 233 0.99

“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 graded inspection (previous framework), 19 September 2023

Overall effectiveness: Outstanding

Quality of education: Outstanding

Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding

Personal development: Outstanding

Leadership and management: Outstanding

Early years: 9

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 4 (GCSE)
YearAttainment 8Progress 8 Grade 4+ English & mathsEBacc grade 4+
2024/25 49.10 - 71.3% 44.4%
2023/24 49.30 0.53
likely between 0.36 and 0.69		 73.1% 42.4%
2022/23 50.50 0.72
likely between 0.55 and 0.88		 76.5% 39.1%

Progress 8 compares pupils here with pupils nationally who had similar results at the end of primary school; 0 is average. It is an estimate, and DfE publishes a range it is likely to fall within. Where that range spans zero, the school cannot be said to be above or below average.

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 87.6 80.0 3.6 4.0 8.7%
2023/24 83.0 70.6 6.0 6.4 14.9%
2022/23 91.0 65.0 7.0 19.0 28.6%
2021/22 84.9 69.2 5.7 10.0 18.5%
2020/21 77.9 59.9 8.0 10.0 23.1%
2019/20 71.1 56.9 7.1 7.0 19.8%

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.

2019 intake

Places the school planned to fill: 242

Places offered: 300

2018 intake

Places the school planned to fill: 242

Places offered: 242

2017 intake

Places the school planned to fill: 242

Places offered: 242

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: 1.34 miles away (2155 m)

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

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: 1.26 miles away (2026 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: 1.76 miles away (2828 m)

Where it is

The 6 nearest secondary schools we hold figures for, by straight-line distance from The Farnley Academy.

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.