Graded inspection · Sep 2024 Previous framework
- Quality of education
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Personal development
- Leadership and management
This schoolOther secondary schools in Leicestershire
What did Ofsted find?
Ofsted data to 30 September 2026| Area | Outstanding | Good | Requires improvement | Inadequate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quality of education | Good | |||
| Behaviour and attitudes | Good | |||
| Personal development | Good | |||
| Leadership and management | Good | |||
| Sixth form provision | 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 entry281 applications · 164 places offered · 172 named it first
- 2026 1.7; Leicestershire median median 2.3
- 2025 1.7; Leicestershire median median 2.3
- 2024 1.7; Leicestershire median median 2.2
- 2023 1.2; Leicestershire median median 2.1
- 2022 1.3; Leicestershire median median 1.8; as the previous school
- 2021 1.2; Leicestershire median median 1.7; as the previous school
- 2020 1.2; Leicestershire median median 1.8; as the previous school
- 2019 1.2; Leicestershire median median 1.6; as the previous school
- 2018 1.1; Leicestershire median median 1.6; as the previous school
- This school
- Leicestershire median
Dashed bars: as Iveshead School (URN 120274), 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 | 164 | 281 | 1.7 | 172 | 1.05 |
| Sep 2025 | 162 | 270 | 1.7 | 156 | 0.96 |
| Sep 2024 | 143 | 238 | 1.7 | 163 | 1.14 |
| Sep 2023 | 193 | 225 | 1.2 | 181 | 0.94 |
| Sep 2022 * | 179 | 232 | 1.3 | 194 | 1.08 |
| Sep 2021 * | 166 | 198 | 1.2 | 175 | 1.05 |
| Sep 2020 * | 153 | 186 | 1.2 | 156 | 1.02 |
| Sep 2019 * | 154 | 180 | 1.2 | 154 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2018 * | 143 | 154 | 1.1 | 141 | 0.99 |
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.) | 170 | 44.2 | 38% | 68% | – |
| 2024/25 | 163 | 43.7 | 41% | 59% | – |
| 2023/24 | 159 | 43.2 | 43% | 62% | −0.37 |
| 2022/23 * | 158 | 43.6 | 41% | 65% | −0.12 |
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
- Iveshead SchoolThis schoolThis schoolGraded · no overall grade20241.7applications per place 44.2Attainment 8
- 2.9 km · LeicestershireGood20223.2applications per place 48.6Attainment 8
- 3.1 km · Leicestershire20262.9applications per place 57.5Attainment 8
- 5.1 km · Leicestershire20263.0applications per place 46.4Attainment 8
- 5.2 km · Leicestershire20262.9applications per place 50.4Attainment 8
- 5.8 km · Leicestershire20261.4applications per place 39.9Attainment 8
- 8.2 km · LeicestershireRemains Good20241.3applications per place 46.7Attainment 8
- 8.2 km · LeicestershireGraded · no overall grade20242.3applications per place 44.0Attainment 8
- 8.4 km · LeicestershireGraded · no overall grade20242.1applications per place 38.8Attainment 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
- 149271 · 855/4056
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Capacity
- 1,400 pupils · 985 on roll
- Free school meals
- 20.2% of pupils (England median 23%)
- SEN provision
- Resourced provision
- Opened
- 1 December 2022
- Replaced
- Iveshead School (URN 120274)
- Address
- Forest Street, Shepshed, Loughborough, LE12 9DB
- Local authority
- Leicestershire · Charnwood
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources