Booth Wood Primary School
Old Ashby Road, Loughborough, LE11 4PG
This school is closed (it closed in October 2024).
It was replaced by Booth Wood Academy. That page has the school's current information.
- Phase
- Primary
- School type
- Community school
- Ages
- 4 to 11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Headteacher
- Mrs Heather Sharpe
- Constituency
- Loughborough
- Setting
- (England/Wales) Urban city and town
- Capacity
- 210
- Pupils on roll
- 215
- URN
- 119973
- Local authority
- Leicestershire
About this school
Booth Wood Primary School was a community primary school in Loughborough. It taught children aged 4 to 11 and had 215 pupils on roll.
Ofsted did not inspect it under the current framework.
Ofsted judgement
Booth Wood Primary School has not been inspected by Ofsted yet.
Exam results
Key stage 2 (end of primary school)
| Measure | 2022/23 | 2023/24 | 2024/25 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils at the end of key stage 2 | 57 | 30 | 30 |
| Met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths | 88% | 77% | 87% |
| Reached the higher standard in reading, writing and maths | 16% | 3% | 10% |
| Expected standard in reading | 88% | 87% | 97% |
| Expected standard in maths | 93% | 93% | 100% |
| Expected standard in grammar, punctuation and spelling | 89% | 87% | 97% |
| Average scaled score in reading | 107.0 | 108.0 | 108.0 |
| Average scaled score in maths | 108.0 | 109.0 | 111.0 |
| Reading progress | +2.70 | - | - |
| Writing progress | +3.40 | - | - |
| Maths progress | +3.80 | - | - |
Progress measures ended nationally after the 2022/23 school year, when the key stage 1 assessments they were based on were stopped. Blank progress figures in later years are not missing school data.
Trends over time
How Booth Wood Primary School has moved over recent years against the local and national picture. Every figure is shown in the table beneath its chart.
| Year | This school | Leicestershire average | England average |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022/23 | 88% | 60.8% | 57.9% |
| 2023/24 | 77% | 60.1% | 58.8% |
| 2024/25 | 87% | 61.4% | 60.3% |
Department for Education KS2 performance data, published school results.
| Year | This school | England average |
|---|---|---|
| 2022/23 | 4.8% | 6.8% |
| 2023/24 | 4.6% | 6.6% |
| 2024/25 | — | 6.2% |
Department for Education pupil absence data.
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 2022/23 | 242 |
| 2023/24 | 215 |
School census, spring count each academic year.
How Booth Wood Primary School compares
Its KS2 result was higher than 95% of England primary schools that published results in 2024/25. Its absence rate was lower than 77% of England schools in 2023/24.
| School | KS2 RWM (2024/25) | Absence | FSM (6 years) | Pupils | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| This school | 87% | 4.6% | 20% | 215 | — |
| Booth Wood Academy | — | 4.4% | 15.7% | 210 | 0.0 miles |
| Thorpe Acre Junior School | 52% | 5.4% | 36.2% | 196 | 0.4 miles |
| Thorpe Acre Infant School | — | 6.3% | 27% | 123 | 0.4 miles |
| Holywell Primary School | 83% | 3.2% | 5.3% | 412 | 0.7 miles |
| Mountfields Lodge School | 45% | 4.2% | 10.9% | 468 | 1.0 miles |
Results reflect each school's cohort as much as its teaching, and free school meals share is context, not a judgement. Small gaps between neighbouring schools are rarely meaningful on their own.
School context
From the 2023/24 school census and absence figures.
- Free school meals (last 6 years)
- 20%
- English as an additional language
- 18.6%
- Overall absence
- 4.6%
- Persistent absence
- 8.6%
Location
Nearby schools
-
Booth Wood Academy0.0 miles
Primary · Loughborough
-
Thorpe Acre Junior School0.4 miles
Primary · Loughborough
-
Thorpe Acre Infant School0.4 miles
Primary · Loughborough
-
Holywell Primary School0.7 miles
Primary · Loughborough
-
Mountfields Lodge School1.0 miles
Primary · Loughborough
Other schools in Loughborough
- Barrow Hall Orchard Church of England Primary School Primary
- Belton Church of England Primary School Primary
- Booth Wood Academy Primary
- Brookside Primary School Primary
- Burton-on-the-Wolds Primary School Primary
- Christ Church & Saint Peter's Cofe Primary School Primary
- Cobden Primary School & Community Centre Primary
- Costock CofE Primary School Primary
- Hathern Church of England Primary School Primary
- Highgate Primary School Primary
- Holywell Primary School Primary
- Lantern Lane Primary and Nursery School Primary
Common questions
- What ages does Booth Wood Primary School teach?
- Booth Wood Primary School taught children aged 4 to 11. It was a primary school in Loughborough.
- Has Booth Wood Primary School been inspected?
- Ofsted has not inspected Booth Wood Primary School under its current framework, so no current judgement is shown. That is common for newer schools and is not a mark against a school.
- How many pupils are at Booth Wood Primary School?
- Booth Wood Primary School had 215 pupils on roll, teaching children aged 4 to 11.
- How have Booth Wood Primary School's results changed over recent years?
- Its share of pupils reaching the expected standard in reading, writing and maths was 88% in 2022/23 and 87% in 2024/25. The year-by-year figures, alongside local and national averages, are charted in the trends section on this page.
- What are Booth Wood Primary School's exam results?
- Where the Department for Education has published them, Booth Wood Primary School's key stage results are shown in the results section on this page, with the last three years so you can see the trend rather than a single year.
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. This page was last updated on 31 October 2024.