The Bishop Wheeler Catholic Academy Trust is a group of thirteen schools[2] in the North West Leeds, Ilkley and North Yorkshire area that converted to Academies since 2013.

[3] The trust is named after Gordon Wheeler, the seventh Roman Catholic Bishop of Leeds from 1966 until 1985.

[12] In March 2012, plans were announced for Catholic schools across the Leeds Diocese to investigate teaming up to form trust academies that would no longer be under local authority control.

[13] The Governing Bodies of St. Mary's Menston and four other schools considered a proposal of converting to Academy status in 2013 and forming together a Multi-Academy Trust.

[16][17][18] The logo of the trust is Bishop Wheeler's Episcopal Coat of Arms.