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Schools in the Leicester local authority

Leicester has 142 schools listed on OfferDay across 2 towns.

82 primary schools · 19 secondary schools · 2 all-through schools · 4 sixth forms and colleges · 16 special and alternative provision schools · 15 independent schools · 4 other establishments

About schools in Leicester

Leicester lists 142 schools, most of them primary schools. Its 19 secondary schools are where families compare options once a child finishes primary. The area also has two all-through schools, which teach every age from the early years to school-leaving age on one site.

Ofsted inspects every school listed here. Its newer reports judge a school across several areas rather than giving one overall grade, while older reports still carry the previous single grade, so read the framework and the date on each page before you set two schools side by side. Where results have been published you will also find key stage 2 scores for the primary schools and Attainment 8 for the secondary schools. An inspection or a results table captures a school at one past moment, so use this page to draw up a shortlist and then visit.

Key stage 2, 2024/25
60%
of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, across the 77 schools with published results
Key stage 4, 2024/25
46.6
average Attainment 8 score, across the 21 schools with published results

Top schools in Leicester

Ranked by the latest published results; primary and secondary schools are measured differently and never compared with each other.

Primary

  1. 1 St Thomas More Catholic Voluntary Academy 88%
  2. 2 Queensmead Primary Academy 87%
  3. 3 Parks Primary School 85%
  4. 4 Caldecote Community Primary School 82%
  5. 5 Humberstone Junior School 81%
  6. 6 Kestrel Mead Primary Academy 79%
  7. 7 Beaumont Lodge Primary School 79%
  8. 8 Evington Valley Primary School 77%

Secondary

  1. 1 Madani Girls' School 61.4
  2. 2 St Paul's Catholic School, a Voluntary Academy 54.5
  3. 3 English Martyrs' Catholic School, A Voluntary Academy 54.0
  4. 4 Avanti Fields School 52.6
  5. 5 Sir Jonathan North Girls' College 52.6
  6. 6 Madani Boys School 52.2
  7. 7 Rushey Mead Academy 51.6
  8. 8 Soar Valley College 51.5

Schools by town

The count beside each town is the number of its schools under Leicester.

Schools not listed under a town

These schools have no town recorded in the national register.

Common questions about schools in Leicester

How many schools does Leicester have?
OfferDay lists 142 schools in Leicester, including 82 primary schools and 19 secondary schools.
Who inspects schools in Leicester?
Every school in Leicester is inspected by Ofsted. Newer reports grade several areas of a school separately on a report card, while older reports carry a single overall grade, so check the framework and the date on each page before you compare two schools.
How are schools in Leicester ranked?
OfferDay ranks an area's schools only where enough of them have published results to compare fairly, and Leicester does not have enough to rank. Compare its schools on their Ofsted reports and, where results are published, the figures shown against each school on this page.
How many towns are in the Leicester local authority?
OfferDay groups the Leicester schools across two towns, listed in the schools-by-town section on this page. Any school with no town recorded in the national register is listed separately, grouped by phase, so every school in the local authority is reachable.

School details come from the Department for Education's Get Information About Schools register. Inspection outcomes come from Ofsted, and exam results from the Department for Education's school performance service. Information on this page was last updated on 24 July 2026.