Graded inspection · Mar 2025 Previous framework
- Quality of education
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Personal development
- Leadership and management
This schoolOther secondary schools in Leicester
What did Ofsted find?
Ofsted data to 30 September 2026| Area | Outstanding | Good | Requires improvement | Inadequate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quality of education | Outstanding | |||
| Behaviour and attitudes | Outstanding | |||
| Personal development | Outstanding | |||
| Leadership and management | Outstanding |
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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 entry821 applications · 317 places offered · 313 named it first
- 2026 2.6; Leicester median median 2.2
- 2025 2.6; Leicester median median 2.1
- 2024 2.5; Leicester median median 2.1
- 2023 2.6; Leicester median median 2.0; as the previous school
- 2022 2.7; Leicester median median 1.7; as the previous school
- 2021 2.7; Leicester median median 1.7; as the previous school
- 2020 2.8; Leicester median median 1.9; as the previous school
- 2019 2.6; Leicester median median 1.9; as the previous school
- 2018 2.5; Leicester median median 1.7; as the previous school
- 2017 2.7; Leicester median median 1.6; as the previous school
- 2016 2.6; Leicester median median 2.2; as the previous school
- 2015 2.6; Leicester median median 2.1; as the previous school
- 2014 2.4; Leicester median median 1.9; as the previous school
- This school
- Leicester median
Dashed bars: as Soar Valley College (URN 120286), the previous school.
Year 7 applications for September 2027 close 31 October 2026, 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 | 317 | 821 | 2.6 | 313 | 0.99 |
| Sep 2025 | 316 | 827 | 2.6 | 330 | 1.04 |
| Sep 2024 | 319 | 808 | 2.5 | 322 | 1.01 |
| Sep 2023 * | 320 | 825 | 2.6 | 343 | 1.07 |
| Sep 2022 * | 312 | 841 | 2.7 | 348 | 1.12 |
| Sep 2021 * | 312 | 832 | 2.7 | 351 | 1.13 |
| Sep 2020 * | 318 | 890 | 2.8 | 365 | 1.15 |
| Sep 2019 * | 319 | 825 | 2.6 | 356 | 1.12 |
| Sep 2018 * | 317 | 792 | 2.5 | 353 | 1.11 |
| Sep 2017 * | 266 | 706 | 2.7 | 349 | 1.31 |
| Sep 2016 * | 273 | 720 | 2.6 | 336 | 1.23 |
| Sep 2015 * | 270 | 689 | 2.6 | 337 | 1.25 |
| Sep 2014 * | 254 | 597 | 2.4 | 319 | 1.26 |
How did pupils do at GCSE?
DfE KS4 · 2025/26 provisionalEvery year as a table
| Year | Pupils | Attainment 8 | 5+ Eng & maths | 4+ Eng & maths | Progress 8 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025/26 (prov.) | 311 | 49.6 | 50% | 69% | – |
| 2024/25 | 309 | 51.5 | 48% | 72% | – |
| 2023/24 | 310 | 51.7 | 58% | 72% | +0.74 |
| 2022/23 * | 310 | 51.3 | 54% | 73% | +0.67 |
Progress 8 is not published for 2024/25 or 2025/26: those pupils had no key stage 2 tests in 2020 and 2021.
Schools nearby
The 8 nearest secondary schools in a straight line, in any local authority
- Soar Valley CollegeThis schoolThis schoolGraded · no overall grade20252.6applications per place 49.6Attainment 8
- 0.4 km · Leicester20262.3applications per place 56.8Attainment 8
- 2.3 km · LeicesterGood20232.3applications per place 54.2Attainment 8
- 3.0 km · LeicestershireRemains Good20232.3applications per place 45.4Attainment 8
- 3.1 km · LeicesterRemains Good20231.6applications per place 44.9Attainment 8
- 3.2 km · LeicestershireRequires improvement20232.3applications per place 44.5Attainment 8
- 3.6 km · LeicesterGood20223.8applications per place 57.9Attainment 8
- 3.6 km · LeicesterImproved significantly20253.9applications per place 52.3Attainment 8
- 3.6 km · LeicesterGood20231.3applications per place 36.1Attainment 8
- 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
- Secondary
- URN · DfE number
- 148877 · 856/4250
- Trust
- Aspire Learning Partnership
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Capacity
- 1,560 pupils · 1,564 on roll
- Free school meals
- 31.3% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Opened
- 1 June 2023
- Replaced
- Soar Valley College (URN 120286)
- Address
- Gleneagles Avenue, Leicester, LE4 7GY
- Local authority
- Leicester
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources