Abbey Grange Church of England Academy
Academy converter · sixth form · 1,576 pupils
94% stayed in education · Attainment 8 55.9
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Cockburn School
- Pupils on roll
- 1,248of 1,111 places
- Free school meals
- 39.7%
- Year 11 cohort 2025
- 274
- Ofsted
- Outstanding, 15 February 2022Read the Ofsted report
Results below include those reported under the school’s previous registration: Cockburn School (URN 108065, until 1 February 2016).
What the data says
Cockburn School has no sixth form. Of the 221 pupils who finished Year 11 there in 2023, 20% moved to a sixth form college, 36% to a further education college and 2% started an apprenticeship.
Design and Technology is unusually popular at GCSE: 27% of the year group took it, against 11% of pupils across England.
GCSE results in 2025 were above the national picture: Attainment 8 of 49.1 against 46.1 across England and 45.5 in Leeds, with 45% of pupils getting grade 5 or above in both English and maths (England 45%).
Languages are a small part of the curriculum here: entries in Spanish add up to 15% of the year group, and 19% of pupils entered the full EBacc set of subjects (England 41%).
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 | Cockburn School | Leeds | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils in the cohort | 221 | 9,144 | 607,348 |
| Any sustained destination | 85% | 89% | 92% |
| Stayed in education | 79% | 84% | 86% |
| — school sixth form | 23% | 32% | 34% |
| — sixth form college | 20% | 14% | 13% |
| — further education college | 36% | 36% | 37% |
| — other education | 0% | 2% | 2% |
| Apprenticeship | 2% | 3% | 3% |
| Employment | 3% | 2% | 3% |
| No sustained destination | 9% | 7% | 6% |
| Destination unknown | 6% | 4% | 3% |
GCSE results 2025
| Measure | Cockburn School | Leeds | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Attainment 8 (average points per pupil) | 49.1 | 45.5 | 46.1 |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 45% | 47% | 45% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 69% | 65% | 65% |
| Entered the English Baccalaureate subjects | 19% | 50% | 41% |
| EBacc average point score | 4.03 | 4.11 | 4.09 |
| Disadvantaged pupils in the cohort | 40% | 32% | 28% |
| Attainment 8 — disadvantaged pupils | 42.4 | 33.9 | 34.9 |
| Attainment 8 — other pupils | 53.5 | 51.0 | 50.4 |
| Pupils with high prior attainment (Key Stage 2) | — | — | — |
| English as an additional language | 22% | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language | 273 | 100% | 89% | 21% | 20% | 71% |
| Mathematics | 272 | 99% | 88% | 19% | 22% | 75% |
| English Literature | 269 | 98% | 86% | 25% | 21% | 72% |
| Combined Science | 265 | 97% | 65% | 20% | 9% | 59% |
| History | 156 | 57% | 41% | 30% | 26% | 69% |
| Geography | 106 | 39% | 41% | 13% | 25% | 43% |
| Design and Technology | 73 | 27% | 11% | 8% | 23% | 78% |
| Art and Design | 53 | 19% | 7% | 13% | 24% | 79% |
| Religious Studies | 46 | 17% | 31% | 39% | 32% | 83% |
| Spanish | 40 | 15% | 19% | 45% | 27% | 80% |
| Photography | 39 | 14% | 6% | 31% | 19% | 87% |
| Business Studies | 38 | 14% | 18% | 32% | 20% | 84% |
| Computer Science | 18 | 7% | 13% | 28% | 30% | 83% |
| Portuguese | 6 | 2% | 0% | 83% | 50% | 100% |
| Polish | 5 | 2% | 1% | — | 84% | — |
| Italian | 4 | 1% | 0% | — | 53% | — |
| Biology | 2 | 1% | 23% | — | 45% | — |
| Urdu | 1 | 0% | 1% | — | 42% | — |
| Punjabi | 1 | 0% | 0% | — | 48% | — |
| Chinese | 1 | 0% | 1% | — | 75% | — |
Technical awards and other Key Stage 4 qualifications
| Subject | Entries | Share of cohort | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sports Studies | 263 | — | — |
| Computer Appreciation / Introduction | 263 | — | — |
| Hospitality / Catering Studies | 78 | — | — |
| Speech and Drama | 54 | — | — |
| Music performance: Group | 39 | — | — |
| Dance: General | 34 | — | — |
| Small Business Management | 14 | — | — |
Where Cockburn School is
Other secondary schools in Leeds are shown for comparison; darker blue means more Year 11 leavers stayed in education. The last distance at which this school offered places is not yet on file — it comes from Leeds’s allocation statistics.
Other secondary schools in Leeds
Allerton Grange School
Community school · sixth form · 1,782 pupils
90% stayed in education · Attainment 8 48.2
Allerton High School
Community school · sixth form · 1,764 pupils
92% stayed in education · Attainment 8 54.3
Benton Park School
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83% stayed in education · Attainment 8 45.7
Bishop Young Church of England Academy
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84% stayed in education · Attainment 8 36.9
Boston Spa Academy
Academy converter · sixth form · 1,498 pupils
89% stayed in education · Attainment 8 55.6
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.