Catherine Infant School
Primary · Community school · Ages 3–7 · Leicester
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
Every applicant was offered a place
From Leicester City Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2025 figure 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Catherine Infant School is a primary school in Leicester for ages 3–7 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Standards maintained, from the inspection on 26 February 2025. Leicester has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2025 to 2026 entry.
Catherine Infant School catchment area: last distance offered
Parents often call this the catchment area: it's how far from the school the last child offered a place lived. It changes every year.
| Entry | Last distance offered |
|---|---|
| Reception 2026 | Every applicant was offered a place |
| Reception 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- At its February 2025 inspection, Ofsted found that standards had been maintained. Its previous graded outcome was Outstanding, in November 2019.
- Every Reception 2026 applicant was offered a place. So did 59 of the 72 other Leicester primary schools with a published Reception 2026 outcome.
- Reception 2026 drew 80 first-choice applications for 83 offers. Every first-choice family was offered a place, and 3 offers went to families ranking it second or lower.
- 13% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, compared with a middle figure of 22.5% across the 8 nearest primary schools in Leicester.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Leicester schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Ulverscroft Road, Catherine Infant School, Leicester, LE4 6BY
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–7
- Council
- Leicester
- Pupils on roll
- 378 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 13% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 18.9
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Standards maintained Inspected 26 February 2025
Strengths
- “Pupils are very happy in the nurturing atmosphere at Catherine Infant School.”
- “The school’s values of kindness, respect, resilience and a love of learning sit at the heart of all that it does.”
- “From the start of children’s time in early years, the school helps them to develop independence and confidence.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 28 March 2025 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 80 first-preference applications, 83 offers in total, 80 offers to first-preference applicants.
Department for Education, school-level applications and offers, figures on national offer day. Earlier years are in the pass.
Nearby primary schools
Straight-line distance, in Leicester.
- Catherine Junior School 0.1 mi Good
- Taylor Road Primary School 0.4 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Shenton Primary School 0.5 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Abbey Mead Primary Academy 0.5 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Green Lane Infant School 0.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Saint Patrick's Catholic Voluntary Academy 0.5 mi Good Last distance published
- Charnwood Primary School 0.6 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Bridge Junior School 0.6 mi No Ofsted grade