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Schools in the Leicestershire local authority

Leicestershire has 328 schools listed on OfferDay across 29 towns.

2 nursery schools · 231 primary schools · 44 secondary schools · 2 sixth forms and colleges · 37 special and alternative provision schools · 11 independent schools · 1 other establishment

About schools in Leicestershire

Leicestershire lists 328 schools, most of them primary schools. Its 44 secondary schools are where families compare options once a child finishes primary. Older students can carry on at two sixth forms and colleges.

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
63%
of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, across the 216 schools with published results
Key stage 4, 2024/25
46.1
average Attainment 8 score, across the 54 schools with published results

Top schools in Leicestershire

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

Primary

  1. 1 Swithland St Leonard's Church of England Primary School 100%
  2. 2 Tugby Church of England Primary School 100%
  3. 3 St Peter's Church of England Primary School Wymondham 100%
  4. 4 Brocks Hill Primary School 97%
  5. 5 The Pastures Primary School 93%
  6. 6 Brookside Primary School 92%
  7. 7 Lubenham All Saints Church of England Primary School 90%
  8. 8 Broomfield Community Primary School 89%

Secondary

  1. 1 The Market Bosworth School 59.5
  2. 2 Manor High School 58.9
  3. 3 Beauchamp College 55.9
  4. 4 De Lisle College Loughborough Leicestershire 55.1
  5. 5 Saint Martin's Catholic Voluntary Academy 54.3
  6. 6 Gartree High School 54.0
  7. 7 Welland Park Academy 53.2
  8. 8 The Robert Smyth Academy 53.0

Schools by town

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

Schools not listed under a town

These schools have no town recorded in the national register.

Common questions about schools in Leicestershire

How many schools does Leicestershire have?
OfferDay lists 328 schools in Leicestershire, including 231 primary schools and 44 secondary schools.
Who inspects schools in Leicestershire?
Every school in Leicestershire 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 Leicestershire ranked?
OfferDay ranks an area's schools only where enough of them have published results to compare fairly, and Leicestershire 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 Leicestershire local authority?
OfferDay groups the Leicestershire schools across 29 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 28 July 2026.