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Temple Learning Academy
All-through · Mixed · Ages 4–16 · Free school
Neville Road, Leeds LS15 0NN · templelearningacademy.org · 0113 264 5456
On the mapSearch near LS15 0NN
Overview
- Ofsted
- Report card
- Nov 2025 · graded by area, with no overall grade
- GCSEs, 2024/25
- 33.7
- average Attainment 8 score. Leeds 45.5, England 46
- Last distance offered
- No limit
- Reception, September 2026 entry · Leeds Council
- Demand for places
- 0.4
- first choices for each place · Year 7, September 2026
- Pupils
- 918
- 90% of 1,020 places
- Local authority
- Leeds
- Sixth form
- No
- Nursery class
- No
- Free school meals
- 54.9%
- First language not English
- 30.7%
- School census 2025/26
The official school record (Department for Education)
Admissions
For Reception in September 2026, everyone who applied was offered a place. Source: Leeds Council’s document.
For Year 7 in September 2026, 31 families put the school first and 76 places were offered; 100% of those families were offered a place there. Admission depends on the school’s own rules.
First choices against places
| Year 7 | Places | First choices | Per place | % offered |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2026Sept 2026 | 76 | 31 | 0.4 | 100% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 63 | 43 | 0.7 | 100% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 61 | 24 | 0.4 | 100% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 64 | 35 | 0.5 | 100% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 59 | 41 | 0.7 | 100% |
Results
In 2024/25 the average Attainment 8 score at GCSE was 33.7, and 28.2% of pupils got grade 5 or above in English and maths. Across Leeds it was 45.5, and across England 46.
In 2024/25, 23% of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of key stage 2, and 2% the higher standard. Across Leeds it was 61%, and across England 62%.
Key stage 2 results
Expected standard reading, writing and maths
| 2024/25 | Trend | School | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reading, writing and maths | |||
| ▼23% | 62% | ||
| ▼2% | 8% | ||
| Average scaled score | |||
| ▼102 | 106 | ||
| ▼97 | 105 | ||
| Grammar and spelling | ▼100 | 105 | |
GCSE results
Attainment 8
| 2024/25 | Trend | School | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| ▼33.7 | 46.0 | ||
| ▼28.2% | 45.4% | ||
| ▼41.0% | 64.8% | ||
| ▼23.1% | 40.5% | ||
| ▼2.94 | 4.09 |
Where Year 11 leavers went
| Left in 2023/24 | Since 2021/22 | |
|---|---|---|
| School sixth form | 4.3 | +2 |
| Sixth form college | 10.3 | +6.8 |
| Further education | 58.1 | −8.2 |
| Other education | 0.9 | — |
| Apprenticeship | 0.9 | −2.6 |
| Employment | 0.9 | −1.4 |
| Not in a lasting destination | 15.4 | +2.6 |
| Activity not captured | 9.4 | +0.1 |
Ofsted
Ofsted inspected Temple Learning Academy on 25 November 2025 and published a report card: each area has its own grade, and there is no overall grade.
- Inclusion: Needs attention
- Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention
- Achievement: Needs attention
- Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard
- Personal development and well-being: Expected standard
- Early years: Expected standard
- Leadership and governance: Needs attention
- Inspected
- 25 Nov 2025
- Report card
- Safeguarding
- Met
Graded areas
| Inclusion | Needs attention |
|---|---|
| Curriculum and teaching | Needs attention |
| Achievement | Needs attention |
| Attendance and behaviour | Expected standard |
| Personal development and well-being | Expected standard |
| Early years | Expected standard |
| Leadership and governance | Needs attention |
Previously: Requires improvement, graded inspection, Sept 2023
Earlier inspections
September 2019 to November 2025
Sept 2023Requires improvement
Quality of education Requires improvement Behaviour and attitudes Good Personal development Good Leadership and management Good Early years Good Safeguarding Effective
Before September 2019
Apr 2018Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Personal development, behaviour and welfare Good Leadership and management Good Early years Good Safeguarding Effective
What parents said
42% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (31 replies, to 6 April 2026).
- Recommend
- 42%
- Positive
- 39%
- Replies
- 31
- 3% · 6 Apr 2026
based on the 100% who raised concerns
based on 15 parents (48%) whose child was bullied
based on 11 parents (35%) with SEND