Report card · inspected Nov 2025
- Exceptional
- Strong standard
- Expected standard
- Needs attention
- Urgent improvement
Safeguarding standards met
This schoolOther primary schools in East Sussex
What did Ofsted find?
Ofsted data to 30 September 2026| Area | Exceptional | Strong standard | Expected standard | Needs attention | Urgent improvement |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inclusion | Expected standard | ||||
| Curriculum and teaching | Expected standard | ||||
| Achievement | Expected standard | ||||
| Attendance and behaviour | Needs attention | ||||
| Personal development and wellbeing | Expected standard | ||||
| Early years | Expected standard | ||||
| Post-16 provision | Does not apply to this school | ||||
| Leadership and governance | Expected standard | ||||
- Exceptional
- Strong standard
- Expected standard
- Needs attention
- Urgent improvement
- Does not apply
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Inspection history
- 11 November 2025Report card · 6 Expected standard, 1 Needs attention
- 19 October 2021Graded inspection: Good
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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 entry105 applications · 60 places offered · 60 named it first
FaithMay give priority to families of the faith.
- 2026 1.8; East Sussex median median 2.2
- 2025 1.6; East Sussex median median 2.2
- 2024 1.7; East Sussex median median 1.9
- 2023 1.9; East Sussex median median 2.0
- 2022 1.5; East Sussex median median 2.0
- 2021 1.4; East Sussex median median 1.9
- 2020 1.6; East Sussex median median 2.0
- 2019 1.3; East Sussex median median 1.9
- 2018 1.5; East Sussex median median 1.9
- 2017 1.3; East Sussex median median 2.0
- 2016 1.2; East Sussex median median 1.8
- 2015 1.1; East Sussex median median 1.7
- 2014 0.9; East Sussex median median 1.8; as the previous school
- This school
- East Sussex median
Dashed bars: as St Leonards CofE Primary School (URN 114535), the previous school.
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 | 60 | 105 | 1.8 | 60 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2025 | 60 | 98 | 1.6 | 66 | 1.10 |
| Sep 2024 | 59 | 100 | 1.7 | 64 | 1.08 |
| Sep 2023 | 60 | 112 | 1.9 | 76 | 1.27 |
| Sep 2022 | 57 | 85 | 1.5 | 56 | 0.98 |
| Sep 2021 | 51 | 71 | 1.4 | 47 | 0.92 |
| Sep 2020 | 55 | 90 | 1.6 | 51 | 0.93 |
| Sep 2019 | 60 | 79 | 1.3 | 54 | 0.90 |
| Sep 2018 | 50 | 76 | 1.5 | 45 | 0.90 |
| Sep 2017 | 60 | 79 | 1.3 | 51 | 0.85 |
| Sep 2016 | 55 | 64 | 1.2 | 38 | 0.69 |
| Sep 2015 | 54 | 61 | 1.1 | 30 | 0.56 |
| Sep 2014 * | 56 | 52 | 0.9 | 38 | 0.68 |
How did pupils do in SATs?
DfE KS2 · 2024/25Reading 73% · Writing 73% · Maths 81% → all three 63% met the expected standard, End of Year 6
- This school
- East Sussex median
- England median
Every year as a table
| Year | Expected standard | Higher standard | Reading score | Maths score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024/25 | 63% | 3% | 104 | 103 |
| 2023/24 | 69% | 15% | 106 | 105 |
| 2022/23 | 71% | 5% | 106 | 105 |
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
- St Leonards Church of England Primary AcademyThis schoolThis school20251.8applications per place 63%met the SATs standard
- 0.8 km · East Sussex20261.6applications per place 60%met the SATs standard
- 1.3 km · East SussexStandards maintained20252.1applications per place 50%met the SATs standard
- 1.5 km · East SussexRemains Good20242.5applications per place
- 1.7 km · East SussexRemains Good · improving20241.9applications per place 72%met the SATs standard
- 2.0 km · East SussexGood20221.8applications per place 60%met the SATs standard
- 2.2 km · East SussexRemains Good20231.9applications per place 60%met the SATs standard
- 2.4 km · East SussexGood20222.2applications per place 46%met the SATs standard
- 2.5 km · East SussexSpecial measures Inadequate20221.2applications per place 35%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 sponsor led
- Phase
- Primary
- URN · DfE number
- 141868 · 845/2017
- Religious character
- Church of England
- Capacity
- 420 pupils · 400 on roll
- Free school meals
- 31.5% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Opened
- 1 April 2015
- Replaced
- St Leonards CofE Primary School (URN 114535)
- Address
- Collinswood Drive, St Leonards-on-Sea, TN38 0NX
- Local authority
- East Sussex · Hastings
Data last changed 3 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources