Imperial Avenue 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 🔒
Imperial Avenue Infant School is a primary school in Leicester for ages 3–7 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 14 June 2023. Leicester has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2025 to 2026 entry.
Imperial Avenue 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
- Every applicant was offered a Reception place in 2026, whereas places ran out in the 1 earlier year with a published outcome, 2025.
- For 2026 Reception entry there were 75 first-choice applications for 82 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 7 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- 22.3% of pupils are eligible for free school meals; the middle figure across the 8 nearest primary schools in Leicester is 32.1%.
- The school has 17.9 pupils per teacher, against a middle figure of 21.5 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
- Imperial Avenue, Braunstone, Leicester, LE3 1AH
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–7
- Council
- Leicester
- Pupils on roll
- 300 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 22.3% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 17.9
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 14 June 2023
Strengths
- “The school’s aim of ‘working together to achieve success’ is lived out by the staff and pupils.”
- “One parental comment, typical of many, described the staff as ‘awesome’.”
- “Many other parents and carers agree that their children are happy and work hard here.”
To improve
- “However, in a small number of subjects, leaders have not thought carefully enough about the opportunities pupils have to practise and revisit key knowledge and skills.”
- “As a result, in these subjects, pupils cannot always remember what they have learned.”
- “However, in a small number of subjects, checks are not made to ensure that small steps have been learned.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 21 July 2023 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 75 first-preference applications, 82 offers in total, 75 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.
- Folville Junior School 0.4 mi Standards maintained
- St Mary's Fields Academy 0.5 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Shaftesbury Junior School 0.6 mi Good
- Dovelands Primary School 0.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Caldecote Community Primary School 0.7 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Queensmead Primary Academy 0.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- King Richard III Infant and Nursery School 0.8 mi Requires improvement Last distance published
- Christ the King Catholic Voluntary Academy 0.8 mi Not judged Last distance published