Evington Valley Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 3–11 · Leicester
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
0.483 miles
Published by Leicester City Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2025 figure 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Evington Valley Primary School is a primary school in Leicester for ages 3–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 25 January 2023. Leicester has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2025 to 2026 entry.
Evington Valley Primary 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 | 0.483 mi |
| Reception 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- For Reception in 2026 there were 49 first-choice applications for 45 offers, 1.1 first choices per offer, the 5th highest of 72 Leicester primary schools.
- In 2026, 45 Reception offers went to first-choice families, while 4 first-choice families (8%) were not offered a place.
- The last child offered a Reception place in 2026 lived 0.483 miles away, the 4th shortest of 10 Leicester primary schools with a published last distance.
- In 2024/25, 77% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), while 2% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
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
- Evington Valley Road, Leicester, LE5 5LL
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- Leicester
- Pupils on roll
- 339 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 19.5% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 22
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 25 January 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils enjoy attending this school.”
- “They say teachers are kind and always available to help them.”
- “Staff and pupils really do demonstrate the ethos of the school, ‘caring and learning together’.”
To improve
- “This is not the case for all subjects.”
- “Pupils’ work and depth of understanding is not of equally high quality across all areas of the curriculum.”
- “Some of the knowledge that leads to pupils gaining subject-specific skills is not precisely identified in some subjects.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 9 March 2023 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Exam results
| Measure | School | England |
|---|---|---|
| Key stage 2 · reading, writing and maths, expected standard (2024/25) | 77% | 62% |
Department for Education school performance data. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 49 first-preference applications, 45 offers in total, 45 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.
- Mayflower Primary School 0.2 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Coleman Primary School 0.4 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Medway Community Primary School 0.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Spinney Hill Primary School 0.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St John the Baptist CofE Primary School 0.7 mi Good Last distance published
- Uplands Infant School 0.7 mi Good Last distance published
- Uplands Junior L.E.A.D. Academy 0.7 mi Standards maintained
- Linden Primary School 0.8 mi Standards maintained Last distance published