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Secondary school in Leeds

Guiseley School

Fieldhead Road, Guiseley, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS20 8DT

Sixth form
School website 01943872315

Ofsted

Standards maintained at the last ungraded inspection, on 6 November 2024.

Inspections since September 2024 do not give an overall grade, so there is no one-word judgement to report. The full report sets out what inspectors found.

Read the Ofsted report

GCSE results 2024/25

Attainment 8 score

49.6 England 47

The average grade across eight GCSEs, doubling English and maths. 50 is roughly a grade 5 average.

Grade 5+ in English & maths

52% England 46.2%

Grade 4+ in English & maths

74% England 66.2%

EBacc average point score

4.4 England 4.2

Entered the EBacc

32% England 40.8%

On Attainment 8 this school is in the upper half of state-funded secondaries in England.

Compared with the fifth of schools whose intake is least disadvantaged, which is where this one sits, it is in the lower half.

Progress 8 2023/24

-0.04confidence interval -0.23 to 0.16

Taking that range into account, progress was not statistically different from the national average. DfE bands this as average.

Progress 8 measures how far pupils moved between the end of primary and their GCSEs, which makes it far fairer than raw attainment. It is shown for 2023/24 because it could not be calculated for 2024/25: that year group would have sat their key stage 2 tests in summer 2020, when the tests were cancelled, so there is no starting point to measure from. Every school in England is affected, not just this one.

A levels 2024/25

Average grade per entry
C+
Average points per entry
32.4

England average 32.3

A level students
132

Pupils

Pupils on roll
1431
Places
1450
How full
Nearly full — 1431 of 1450 places taken
Girls / boys
735 / 696
Overall absence
7%

secondary schools average 8.6%

Persistently absent
17%

secondary schools average 23.9% — pupils missing 10% or more of sessions

Free school meals, last 6 years
15%

England 25.7%

English as an additional language
3%

England 18.7%

With an EHC plan
2%

England 3.5%

On SEN support
17%

England 15%

What pupils do next

After GCSEs

In education, work or training
93%

England 91.4%

Stayed in education
86%

England 85.4%

Started an apprenticeship
5%

England 3.5%

Stayed at this school's sixth form
59%
No sustained destination
4%

England 5.8%

Pupils in the cohort
218

After sixth form

Went to university
48%

England 50%

In education, work or training
89%

England 84.3%

Started an apprenticeship
6%

England 6.5%

Students in the cohort
122

Going on to university 2021/22 leavers

Went to a top third university

22% England 20.9%

The third of higher education providers whose entrants hold the highest average entry qualifications. It is the closest thing in the public data to "did they get into a competitive university", and it separates schools far more sharply than the headline progression rate does.

Went on to a degree
60%

England 65.3%

Students in the cohort
98

These follow an earlier group of leavers than the figures above, and count anyone reaching higher education within two years rather than the term after leaving, so they are not directly comparable with them.

A destination counts only if it lasted at least six months, which is why these figures lag the exam results by a year, and why the university figures track leavers from 2021/22. Small cohorts move these percentages a long way — check the cohort size before reading much into a gap.

The neighbourhood around the school

Census 2021 figures for Leeds 009C, the statistical neighbourhood the school sits in — roughly 1,500 residents. It describes the area, not the pupils, who may travel in from further away.

Adults with a degree
44%

England 33.8%

Adults with no qualifications
12%

England 18.3%

Households owning their home
85%

England 62.7%

Households in social housing
5%

England 17%

Households with no car
11%

England 21.9%

Adults economically inactive
35%

England 39.9%

School details

Type
Foundation school
Phase
Secondary
Ages
Ages 11–18
Gender
Mixed
Admissions
Non-selective
Religious character
None
Sixth form
Yes
Nursery
No
Boarding
Day school
Headteacher
Headteacher: Paul Clayton
Local authority
Leeds
Ward
Guiseley & Rawdon
Constituency
Leeds North West
URN
108085

The unique reference number used in all official school data.

Nearest secondary schools

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8Distance
St. Mary's Menston, a Catholic Voluntary AcademyAcademy converter No grade 55 0.8 mi
Benton Park SchoolAcademy converter Requires improvement 2023 1.7 mi
Immanuel CollegeAcademy converter Good 2024 41.9 2.1 mi
Woodhouse Grove SchoolOther independent school No grade 2.3 mi
Otley Prince Henry's Grammar School Specialist Language CollegeAcademy converter No grade 54.6 3 mi
Titus Salt SchoolCommunity school No grade 40.9 3.6 mi
Horsforth SchoolAcademy converter Good 2023 57.3 3.7 mi
Hanson AcademyAcademy sponsor led No grade 35.1 3.8 mi

Schools with a similar intake

State-funded secondary schools nationally whose share of disadvantaged pupils is closest to this school's. This is the fairest like-for-like comparison the published data supports.

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8
The John Fisher SchoolVoluntary aided school Good 2023 55.6
Pensby High SchoolFoundation school Good 2023 44.8
The Wellington AcademyAcademy sponsor led Good 2022 42.1
Ravens Wood SchoolAcademy converter Good 2023 48.1
St Martin's School BrentwoodAcademy converter No grade 45.9
Finham Park SchoolAcademy converter No grade 55.7
Cottenham Village CollegeAcademy converter Good 2023 52
Saint Martin's Catholic Voluntary AcademyAcademy converter No grade 54.3

Where these figures come from

  • School details, address and pupil numbers — Get Information About Schools, the DfE register, as at 14 August 2026.
  • Exam results — DfE performance tables, 2024/25, and 2023/24 for Progress 8.
  • Free school meals, EAL and SEN — school census, 2024/25.
  • Ofsted — Ofsted management information, latest inspections as at 30 June 2026.
  • Neighbourhood figures — ONS Census 2021, lower layer super output area.

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