Graded inspection · Jan 2025 Previous framework
- Quality of education
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Personal development
- Leadership and management
This schoolOther primary schools in Leicestershire
What did Ofsted find?
Ofsted data to 30 September 2026| Area | Outstanding | Good | Requires improvement | Inadequate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quality of education | Requires improvement | |||
| Behaviour and attitudes | Requires improvement | |||
| Personal development | Requires improvement | |||
| Leadership and management | Requires improvement | |||
| Early years provision | Requires improvement |
Inspection history
- 21 January 2025Graded inspection, no overall grade
- 4 July 2023Ungraded inspection: School remains Good (Concerns)
Full reports on the Ofsted website · How to read Ofsted grades
About these grades
Ofsted's report cards (from November 2025) grade each area on five steps and give no overall grade. Earlier grades come from a different framework; Ofsted says the two cannot be compared, so they are never converted here. Ofsted: "We normally inspect schools every 4 years or at any time if we have concerns." Methodology.
How hard is it to get a place?
DfE · Sept 2026 entry66 applications · 35 places offered · 35 named it first
- 2026 1.9; Leicestershire median median 2.7
- 2025 2.4; Leicestershire median median 2.8
- 2024 1.8; Leicestershire median median 2.4
- 2023 1.8; Leicestershire median median 2.3
- 2022 1.4; Leicestershire median median 1.9
- 2021 1.4; Leicestershire median median 1.8
- 2020 1.5; Leicestershire median median 1.8
- 2019 1.4; Leicestershire median median 1.9
- 2018 1.3; Leicestershire median median 1.8
- 2017 1.7; Leicestershire median median 1.8
- 2016 1.5; Leicestershire median median 1.8
- 2015 1.4; Leicestershire median median 1.7
- 2014 1.3; Leicestershire median median 1.7
- This school
- Leicestershire median
Reception applications for September 2027 close 15 January 2027, through your council
How this is measured
Applications per place: every application naming the school at any preference, divided by places offered on National Offer Day. It is not your chance of a place. Methodology.
| Entry | Places | Applications | Per place | First preferences | First-pref. ratio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2026 | 35 | 66 | 1.9 | 35 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2025 | 32 | 76 | 2.4 | 32 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2024 | 47 | 85 | 1.8 | 47 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2023 | 39 | 69 | 1.8 | 38 | 0.97 |
| Sep 2022 | 52 | 74 | 1.4 | 50 | 0.96 |
| Sep 2021 | 44 | 62 | 1.4 | 44 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2020 | 42 | 63 | 1.5 | 39 | 0.93 |
| Sep 2019 | 55 | 78 | 1.4 | 50 | 0.91 |
| Sep 2018 | 51 | 67 | 1.3 | 50 | 0.98 |
| Sep 2017 | 54 | 93 | 1.7 | 51 | 0.94 |
| Sep 2016 | 49 | 75 | 1.5 | 44 | 0.90 |
| Sep 2015 | 53 | 76 | 1.4 | 47 | 0.89 |
| Sep 2014 | 45 | 60 | 1.3 | 43 | 0.96 |
How did pupils do in SATs?
DfE KS2 · 2024/25Reading 57% · Writing 49% · Maths 61% → all three 45% met the expected standard, End of Year 6
- This school
- Leicestershire median
- England median
Every year as a table
| Year | Expected standard | Higher standard | Reading score | Maths score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024/25 | 45% | 0% | 101 | 102 |
| 2023/24 | 46% | 7% | 104 | 102 |
| 2022/23 | 36% | 2% | 104 | 100 |
Subject results are published for the latest year only. Scaled scores run from 80 to 120.
Schools nearby
The 8 nearest primary schools in a straight line, in any local authority
- Cobden Primary School & Community CentreThis schoolThis schoolGraded · no overall grade20251.9applications per place 45%met the SATs standard
- 0.7 km · LeicestershireRemains Good20232.2applications per place 79%met the SATs standard
- 1.0 km · LeicestershireRemains Good20223.0applications per place 58%met the SATs standard
- 1.1 km · LeicestershireRemains Good20235.3applications per place 75%met the SATs standard
- 1.3 km · Leicestershire20262.2applications per place 81%met the SATs standard
- 1.5 km · Leicestershire20263.3applications per place 45%met the SATs standard
- 1.5 km · LeicestershireStandards maintained20252.7applications per place 82%met the SATs standard
- 2.4 km · LeicestershireGood20233.2applications per place
- 2.4 km · LeicestershireGood20222.3applications per place 29%met the SATs standard
- Exceptional
- Strong standard
- Expected standard
- Needs attention
- Urgent improvement
- Does not apply
Eight dots, one per area: inclusion, curriculum, achievement, attendance, personal development, early years, post-16, leadership. Colours follow Ofsted's report card scale; Schoolfile is independent of Ofsted.
School details
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- URN · DfE number
- 139366 · 855/2374
- Capacity
- 420 pupils · 400 on roll
- Free school meals
- 40.6% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Opened
- 1 March 2013
- Replaced
- Cobden Primary School & Community Centre (URN 120097)
- Address
- Cobden Street, Loughborough, LE11 1AF
- Local authority
- Leicestershire · Charnwood
Data last changed 3 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources