Benton Park School
Secondary · Leeds · LS19 6LX
Data updated
Graded inspection under the pre-November 2025 system
This is an overall-effectiveness grade from the previous inspection framework. The school has not yet had a report-card inspection.
Inspected 25 October 2023
Read the Ofsted report ↗At a glance
1,516 pupils · 90% of 1,680 capacity (January 2026 census)
- School type
- Academy converter
- Age range
- 11–18
- Gender
- Mixed
- Admissions
- Non-selective
- Free school meals
- 16.3% of pupils (January 2026)
- Sixth form
- Yes
- URN
- 151762
In figures
For September 2026 entry, 236 families named it first for 274 Year 7 places, 0.86 first choices per place. Its last Year 7 place offered on distance for 2024 entry went to 3.478 miles; distance decided places in 7 of the 12 years of Year 7 rounds we hold, 2014 to 2026. Ofsted last graded it Requires improvement on 25 October 2023, under the framework used before November 2025. In the 2025/26 autumn and spring terms its pupils missed 6.4% of sessions, against 6.6% across England.
Admissions demand: Year 7 entry, September 2026
0.86 first-choice applications per place274 places offered · 236 first-choice applications · roughly balanced
Source: DfE applications and offers on national offer day · how demand is measured
Catchment area
Catchment area: not named in the council's figures. Every applicant was offered a place for 2026 entry, so distance was not needed to decide places.
Admissions cutoff distance: Year 7
Every applicant was offered a place for 2026 entry, so distance was not needed to decide places.
Last child offered a place under the distance criterion (2024 entry, the most recent year with a distance-only cutoff) lived within 3.478 miles
measured in a straight line.
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Source: the admissions authority's published figures · how cutoffs work
Compare admissions across the area: Leeds school admissions · the wider Leeds authority
Pupils by ethnicity (January 2026)
White British 82% (Leeds 57%, England 59%) · Any other White background 3% (Leeds 5%, England 7%) · Asian Pakistani 3% (Leeds 7%, England 5%) · Asian Indian 2% (Leeds 3%, England 4%) · Any other Mixed background 2% (Leeds 3%, England 3%) · Mixed White and Asian 1% (Leeds 2%, England 2%) · Mixed White and Black Caribbean 1% (Leeds 2%, England 2%) · Black African 1% (Leeds 8%, England 5%) · Any other Asian background 1% (Leeds 2%, England 3%) · Not recorded 1% (Leeds 4%, England 2%) · Asian Chinese 1% (Leeds 1%, England 1%) · Mixed White and Black African 1% (Leeds 1%, England 1%) · other groups together 1%
Source: DfE schools, pupils and their characteristics, January 2026 census · how to read these figures
Attendance (2025/26 autumn and spring terms)
Source: DfE pupil absence data, autumn and spring terms · how absence is measured
Staffing
Full-time-equivalent, 2025/26.
Vacancies (November 2025)
0% of teaching posts vacant, 0% filled temporarily · England, secondary academies: 0.45% vacant, 0.33% temporary
Teacher pay (November 2025)
Mean salary of full-time qualified teachers £53,077; 10.5% on the leadership pay range · England, secondary schools: £53,766, 11.3%
Source: DfE School Workforce Census · how these figures are counted
The area around the school
- Child poverty (IDACI)
- 9/10among the least deprived fifth of England
- Overall deprivation (IMD)
- 9/10among the least deprived fifth of England
| Census 2021 | This area | England |
|---|---|---|
| Adults with a degree or higher | 43.1% | 33.9% |
| Adults with no qualifications | 12.2% | 18.1% |
| In managerial or professional work | 46.5% | 33.2% |
| Households deprived in two or more ways | 9.6% | 18.1% |
| Residents in very good health | 53.3% | 48.5% |
| Homes owned by the occupier | 83.5% | 62.3% |
| Social housing | 1.5% | 17.1% |
| Privately rented | 15% | 20.5% |
| Detached houses | 10.2% | 22.9% |
| Flats | 7.3% | 22.2% |
| Homes with four or more bedrooms | 21.7% | 21.1% |
| Households with no car or van | 11.5% | 23.5% |
These figures describe the area, not the pupils. Source: Census 2021 (ONS) and English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (MHCLG) for small area E01011278 · how to read area figures
What homes cost nearby
- Median sale price
- £260,000415 sales within 1 km, January 2024 to September 2026
- Typical range
- £220,000–£345,000the middle half of sales
- England median
- £300,000all sales over the same period
Homes around this school are cheaper than most school neighbourhoods in England, comparing the median within 1 km across every state school.
Inside the Year 7 cutoff distance (4.51 km, 2021 entry): 3,866 sales, median £270,000. The homes that would have got a child in that year, at the straight-line distance the school last filled to.
Source: HM Land Registry sales within 1 km since January 2024 · how sales are counted. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Postcodes located with OS Code-Point Open: contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026; contains Royal Mail data © Royal Mail copyright and database right 2026; contains National Statistics data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.
Roads around the school
- Child pedestrian casualties
- 4an urban school averages 2.0
- Collisions at school-run times
- 6an urban school averages 5.7
- All reported collisions
- 22an urban school averages 30.5
- Of those, serious or fatal
- 2an urban school averages 6.1
A high count usually reflects traffic, not an unsafe school. Source: DfT road casualty statistics (STATS19), collisions within 500 m, 2021–2025 · what is counted