Little London Academy
- Primary
- Academy sponsor led
- Ages 2 to 11
URN 150432 · Leeds · THE GORSE ACADEMIES TRUST
Inspection
Ofsted management information, as at 30 September 2026.
Latest graded inspection
6 July 2022Overall effectiveness
Requires improvement
- Quality of education
- Good
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Good
- Personal development
- Good
- Leadership and management
- Requires improvement
- Early years provision
- Requires improvement
- Safeguarding is effective
- Yes
This inspection was of the predecessor school, before it converted or reopened under its current URN.
Requires Improvement S5 Reinspection Visit 1
Under the earlier framework, inspections gave an overall effectiveness grade.
Read the reports on Ofsted’s website. Source: Ofsted, State-funded school inspections and outcomes: management information.
Attendance
Against Leeds and England, primary schools.
Overall absence
2024/256.9%
- Leeds
- 5.3%
- England
- 5.2%
1.7 percentage points higher than England.
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| Year | This school | Leeds | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017/18 | Not published | 4.1% | 4.2% |
| 2018/19 | Not published | 4.0% | 4.0% |
| 2020/21 | Not published | 3.6% | 3.6% |
| 2021/22 | Not published | 6.1% | 6.3% |
| 2022/23 | Not published | 5.9% | 5.9% |
| 2023/24 | 7.1% | 5.6% | 5.5% |
| 2024/25 | 6.9% | 5.3% | 5.2% |
Sessions missed for any reason, as a share of all possible sessions in the school year. Source: Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics, Pupil absence in schools in England, 2024/25.
Persistent absence
2024/2520.3%
- Leeds
- 14.3%
- England
- 13.0%
7.3 percentage points higher than England.
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| Year | This school | Leeds | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017/18 | Not published | 8.9% | 8.7% |
| 2018/19 | Not published | 8.8% | 8.2% |
| 2020/21 | Not published | 8.8% | 8.8% |
| 2021/22 | Not published | 17.1% | 17.7% |
| 2022/23 | Not published | 17.0% | 16.2% |
| 2023/24 | 24.8% | 15.6% | 14.6% |
| 2024/25 | 20.3% | 14.3% | 13.0% |
Pupils who missed 10% or more of their possible sessions, as a share of pupils. Source: Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics, Pupil absence in schools in England, 2024/25.
Severe absence
2024/252.0%
- Leeds
- 1.0%
- England
- 0.9%
1.1 percentage points higher than England.
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| Year | This school | Leeds | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017/18 | Not published | 0.4% | 0.4% |
| 2018/19 | Not published | 0.3% | 0.4% |
| 2020/21 | Not published | 0.6% | 0.7% |
| 2021/22 | Not published | 0.6% | 0.6% |
| 2022/23 | Not published | 0.7% | 0.7% |
| 2023/24 | 0.9% | 0.8% | 0.9% |
| 2024/25 | 2.0% | 1.0% | 0.9% |
Pupils who missed 50% or more of their possible sessions, as a share of pupils. Source: Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics, Pupil absence in schools in England, 2024/25.
Suspensions and permanent exclusions
Against Leeds and England, primary schools.
Suspensions per 100 pupils
2024/252.14
- Leeds
- 2.05
- England
- 2.47
0.33 lower than England.
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| Year | This school | Leeds | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017/18 | Not published | 0.77 | 1.40 |
| 2018/19 | Not published | 0.95 | 1.41 |
| 2019/20 | Not published | 0.63 | 1.00 |
| 2020/21 | Not published | 0.59 | 0.99 |
| 2021/22 | Not published | 1.09 | 1.42 |
| 2022/23 | Not published | 1.31 | 1.81 |
| 2023/24 | Not published | 1.69 | 2.27 |
| 2024/25 | 2.14 | 2.05 | 2.47 |
Suspensions in the school year for every 100 pupils on roll. One pupil can be suspended more than once. Source: Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics, Suspensions and permanent exclusions in England, 2024/25.
Permanent exclusions per 100 pupils
2024/250.00
- Leeds
- 0.00
- England
- 0.03
0.03 lower than England.
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| Year | This school | Leeds | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017/18 | Not published | 0.00 | 0.03 |
| 2018/19 | Not published | 0.00 | 0.02 |
| 2019/20 | Not published | 0.00 | 0.02 |
| 2020/21 | Not published | 0.00 | 0.01 |
| 2021/22 | Not published | 0.00 | 0.02 |
| 2022/23 | Not published | 0.01 | 0.03 |
| 2023/24 | Not published | 0.00 | 0.03 |
| 2024/25 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.03 |
Permanent exclusions in the school year for every 100 pupils on roll. Source: Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics, Suspensions and permanent exclusions in England, 2024/25.
Key stage 2 results
Against Leeds and England, primary schools.
Reading, writing and maths: expected standard
2024/2570%
- Leeds
- 61%
- England
- 63%
7 percentage points higher than England.
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| Year | This school | Leeds | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021/22 | Not published | 58% | 59% |
| 2022/23 | Not published | 58% | 60% |
| 2023/24 | Not published | 59% | 61% |
| 2024/25 | 70% | 61% | 63% |
| 2025/26 (provisional) | Not published | 61% | 63% |
Pupils at the end of key stage 2 who met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths combined. Source: Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics, Key stage 2 attainment, 2024/25.
Reading, writing and maths: higher standard
2024/2514%
- Leeds
- 9%
- England
- 8%
6 percentage points higher than England.
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| Year | This school | Leeds | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021/22 | Not published | 8% | 7% |
| 2022/23 | Not published | 9% | 8% |
| 2023/24 | Not published | 8% | 8% |
| 2024/25 | 14% | 9% | 8% |
| 2025/26 (provisional) | Not published | 9% | 9% |
Pupils at the end of key stage 2 who met the higher standard in reading, writing and maths combined. Source: Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics, Key stage 2 attainment, 2024/25.
Pupils
Against Leeds and England, primary schools.
Eligible for free school meals
2024/2538.2%
- Leeds
- 24.8%
- England
- 24.7%
13.5 percentage points higher than England.
Pupils known to be eligible for free school meals on census day in January. Source: Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics, Schools, pupils and their characteristics, 2024/25.
SEN support
2024/2527.3%
- Leeds
- 18.4%
- England
- 15.0%
12.3 percentage points higher than England.
Pupils receiving special educational needs support without an education, health and care plan. Source: Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics, Schools, pupils and their characteristics, 2024/25.
Education, health and care plan
2024/250.8%
- Leeds
- 1.0%
- England
- 3.5%
2.7 percentage points lower than England.
Pupils with an education, health and care plan. Source: Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics, Schools, pupils and their characteristics, 2024/25.
First language other than English
2024/2572.2%
- Leeds
- 25.1%
- England
- 23.4%
48.8 percentage points higher than England.
Pupils whose first language is known or believed to be other than English. Source: Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics, Schools, pupils and their characteristics, 2024/25.
Teachers
Against Leeds and England, primary schools.
Pupils per qualified teacher
2025/2633.3
- Leeds
- 21.2
- England
- 21.2
12.1 higher than England.
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| Year | This school | Leeds | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017/18 | Not published | 21.8 | 21.3 |
| 2018/19 | Not published | 22.0 | 21.4 |
| 2019/20 | Not published | 22.0 | 21.4 |
| 2020/21 | Not published | 21.6 | 21.1 |
| 2021/22 | Not published | 21.4 | 21.0 |
| 2022/23 | Not published | 21.4 | 21.1 |
| 2023/24 | Not published | 21.5 | 21.2 |
| 2024/25 | 20.7 | 21.3 | 21.3 |
| 2025/26 | 33.3 | 21.2 | 21.2 |
Full-time equivalent pupils for each full-time equivalent qualified teacher. Source: Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics, School workforce in England, 2025/26.
Teacher sickness absence
2024/2516.8 days
- Leeds
- 5.1 days
- England
- 5.0 days
11.8 days higher than England.
Compared with all state-funded schools: DfE publishes this measure for all schools, not by phase.
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| Year | This school | Leeds | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017/18 | Not published | 3.6 days | 4.0 days |
| 2018/19 | Not published | 3.6 days | 4.0 days |
| 2019/20 | Not published | Not published | Not published |
| 2020/21 | Not published | 4.0 days | 3.9 days |
| 2021/22 | Not published | 6.3 days | 6.3 days |
| 2022/23 | Not published | 5.5 days | 5.2 days |
| 2023/24 | Not published | 5.6 days | 5.3 days |
| 2024/25 | 16.8 days | 5.1 days | 5.0 days |
Days lost to sickness absence in the school year, averaged across all teachers. Source: Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics, School workforce in England, 2024/25.
Finance
Academies report their accounts as part of their trust, so DfE publishes no school-level balance for this school. The trust’s figures are in DfE’s Financial Benchmarking and Insights Tool.
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About the school
- Pupils on roll
- 431
- Capacity
- 630
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Phase
- Primary
- Age range
- 2 to 11
- Sixth form
- Does not have a sixth form
- Gender
- Mixed
- Trust
- THE GORSE ACADEMIES TRUST
- Opened
- 1 February 2024
- Setting
- Urban: Nearer to a major town or city
- Constituency
- Leeds Central and Headingley
- Special educational needs provision
- SpLD - Specific Learning Difficulty; SLCN - Speech, language and Communication; ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder; MSI - Multi-Sensory Impairment; MLD - Moderate Learning Difficulty
- Resourced provision
- Resourced provision
- Deprivation of the area (IDACI)
- Decile 2 of 10 (1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods)
Sources and corrections
Every figure on this page names its source and period. This release was built on 20 October 2026.
- Department for Education: Get Information about Schools: establishment data (GIAS establishment extract 2026-10-20)
- Ofsted: State-funded school inspections and outcomes: management information (Latest inspections as at 2026-09-30; All inspections, 2018/19; All inspections, 2019/20; All inspections, 2020/21; All inspections, 2021/22; All inspections, 2022/23; All inspections, 2023/24; All inspections, 2024/25; All inspections, 2025/26)
- Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics: Pupil absence in schools in England (absence-3term-school, 2013/14 to 2024/25 [pinned data set id])
- Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics: Suspensions and permanent exclusions in England (exc-school, 2006/07 to 2024/25 [pinned data set id]; exc-ap-school, 2013/14 to 2024/25 [pinned data set id]; exc-geography, 2006/07 to 2024/25 [pinned data set id]; exc-ap-geography, 2013/14 to 2024/25 [pinned data set id])
- Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics: Key stage 2 attainment (ks2-school, 2022/23 to 2024/25 [pinned data set id]; ks2-geography, 2015/16 to 2025/26 [pinned data set id])
- Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics: Key stage 4 performance (ks4-school, 2023/24 to 2025/26 [pinned data set id]; ks4-geography, 2018/19 to 2025/26 [pinned data set id])
- Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics: Schools, pupils and their characteristics (School census, January 2022 (performance tables, 2021 to 2022); School census, January 2023 (performance tables, 2022 to 2023); School census, January 2024 (performance tables, 2023 to 2024); School census, January 2025 (performance tables, 2024 to 2025))
- Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics: School workforce in England (ptr-school, 2010/11 to 2025/26 [pinned data set id]; ptr-geography, 2010/11 to 2025/26 [pinned data set id]; sickness-school, 2009/10 to 2024/25 [pinned data set id]; sickness-geography, 2009/10 to 2024/25 [pinned data set id])
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: English indices of deprivation 2025: Income Deprivation Affecting Children Index (English indices of deprivation 2025, File 7 (2021 LSOAs))
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