Abbey Grange Church of England Academy
Academy converter · sixth form · 1,576 pupils
94% stayed in education · Attainment 8 55.9
Academy sponsor led
Leeds City Academy
- Pupils on roll
- 1,009of 1,050 places
- Free school meals
- 62.5%
- Year 11 cohort 2025
- 214
- Ofsted
- Standards maintained, 11 December 2024Read the Ofsted report
Results below include those reported under the school’s previous registration: City of Leeds School (URN 108056, until 8 May 2013).
What the data says
Leeds City Academy has no sixth form. Of the 149 pupils who finished Year 11 there in 2023, 19% moved to a sixth form college, 44% to a further education college and 1% started an apprenticeship.
11% of leavers were not in sustained education, employment or training six months on, compared with 6% nationally.
Computer Science is unusually popular at GCSE: 44% of the year group took it, against 13% of pupils across England.
GCSE results in 2025 were below the national picture: Attainment 8 of 38.3 against 46.1 across England and 45.5 in Leeds, with 34% of pupils getting grade 5 or above in both English and maths (England 45%).
Where pupils went after Year 11
Destinations of the 2023 Year 11 leavers, measured the following year: the share in a sustained place for at least two terms. Compared with all state-funded schools in Leeds and England.
School sixth formSixth form collegeFurther education collegeOther educationApprenticeshipEmploymentNo sustained destination
| Measure | Leeds City Academy | Leeds | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils in the cohort | 149 | 9,144 | 607,348 |
| Any sustained destination | 75% | 89% | 92% |
| Stayed in education | 74% | 84% | 86% |
| — school sixth form | 11% | 32% | 34% |
| — sixth form college | 19% | 14% | 13% |
| — further education college | 44% | 36% | 37% |
| — other education | 0% | 2% | 2% |
| Apprenticeship | 1% | 3% | 3% |
| Employment | 1% | 2% | 3% |
| No sustained destination | 11% | 7% | 6% |
| Destination unknown | 13% | 4% | 3% |
GCSE results 2025
| Measure | Leeds City Academy | Leeds | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Attainment 8 (average points per pupil) | 38.3 | 45.5 | 46.1 |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 34% | 47% | 45% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 48% | 65% | 65% |
| Entered the English Baccalaureate subjects | 27% | 50% | 41% |
| EBacc average point score | 3.39 | 4.11 | 4.09 |
| Disadvantaged pupils in the cohort | 54% | 32% | 28% |
| Attainment 8 — disadvantaged pupils | 32.6 | 33.9 | 34.9 |
| Attainment 8 — other pupils | 45.0 | 51.0 | 50.4 |
| Pupils with high prior attainment (Key Stage 2) | — | — | — |
| English as an additional language | 64% | 20% | 19% |
Progress 8 is not available for 2025 and 2026: these cohorts had no Key Stage 2 tests in 2020 and 2021, so there is no baseline. Attainment 8 shows results without taking pupils’ starting points into account.
Subjects taken at GCSE
Entries in 2025 as a share of the Year 11 cohort, and the share of entries graded 7–9 and 4–9, compared with all entries in England.
| Subject | Entries | Share of cohort | England | Grades 7–9 | England | Grades 4–9 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mathematics | 211 | 99% | 88% | 10% | 22% | 53% |
| English Language | 205 | 96% | 89% | 11% | 20% | 62% |
| English Literature | 198 | 93% | 86% | 10% | 21% | 63% |
| Combined Science | 175 | 82% | 65% | 6% | 9% | 41% |
| History | 114 | 53% | 41% | 16% | 26% | 51% |
| Computer Science | 94 | 44% | 13% | 5% | 30% | 28% |
| Business Studies | 92 | 43% | 18% | 0% | 20% | 26% |
| Geography | 89 | 42% | 41% | 8% | 25% | 44% |
| Citizenship Studies | 47 | 22% | 3% | 13% | 19% | 70% |
| Art and Design | 39 | 18% | 7% | 5% | 24% | 72% |
| Spanish | 32 | 15% | 19% | 38% | 27% | 78% |
| Religious Studies | 27 | 13% | 31% | 15% | 32% | 81% |
| Biology | 27 | 13% | 23% | 26% | 45% | 96% |
| Chemistry | 26 | 12% | 23% | 35% | 47% | 96% |
| Physics | 26 | 12% | 23% | 31% | 46% | 100% |
| Photography | 19 | 9% | 6% | 5% | 19% | 95% |
| Urdu | 16 | 7% | 1% | 25% | 42% | 38% |
| Modern Greek | 13 | 6% | 0% | 8% | 33% | 8% |
| Arabic | 12 | 6% | 1% | 92% | 47% | 100% |
| Italian | 9 | 4% | 0% | 67% | 53% | 89% |
| Portuguese | 9 | 4% | 0% | 56% | 50% | 100% |
| Design and Technology | 7 | 3% | 11% | 0% | 23% | 43% |
| French | 5 | 2% | 18% | — | 29% | — |
| Chinese | 4 | 2% | 1% | — | 75% | — |
| Polish | 3 | 1% | 1% | — | 84% | — |
| Persian | 2 | 1% | 0% | — | 77% | — |
| Statistics | 2 | 1% | 5% | — | 20% | — |
| Russian | 1 | 0% | 0% | — | 87% | — |
| Gujarati | 1 | 0% | 0% | — | 57% | — |
| Turkish | 1 | 0% | 0% | — | 71% | — |
Technical awards and other Key Stage 4 qualifications
| Subject | Entries | Share of cohort | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Music performance: Group | 32 | — | — |
| Hospitality / Catering Studies | 31 | — | — |
| Engineering Studies | 31 | — | — |
| Health Studies | 29 | — | — |
| Sports Studies | 19 | — | — |
| Tourism | 17 | — | — |
| Speech and Drama | 15 | — | — |
| Beauty Care / Services | 10 | — | — |
| Building / Construction Operations (General / Combined) | 8 | — | — |
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Sources: Department for Education school and college performance tables 2024/2025 (Key Stage 4 and 16–18 results, subject entries, destination measures for 2023 leavers); Get Information About Schools register as at 19 September 2026; Ofsted management information as at 31 August 2026. Small numbers are suppressed by DfE and shown as “—”. How to read these figures.