King Richard III Infant and Nursery School
Primary · Community school · Ages 3–7 · Leicester
King Richard III Infant and Nursery School is a primary school in Leicester for ages 3–7 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Requires improvement, from the inspection on 23 April 2024. Leicester has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2025 to 2026 entry.
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Key facts
- Address
- Andrewes Street, Leicester, LE3 5PA
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–7
- Sector
- See recorded establishment type
- Council
- Leicester
- Pupils on roll
- 269 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 16.7% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 20.5
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Requires improvement Inspected 23 April 2024
Strengths
- “The school serves a diverse community where all backgrounds and cultures are celebrated.”
- “Staff, pupils and families are proud of this school.”
- “Pupils use language such as ‘inclusiveness’ and appreciate the many friends that they can make.”
To improve
- “However, its actions are not yet having a sustained impact across the whole curriculum.”
- “However, this progress is not consistent across all subject areas, or across the different phases in school.”
- “In a few subjects, the key knowledge that the school intends all pupils to know and remember has not yet been clearly sequenced.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 10 June 2024 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 73 first-preference applications, 60 offers in total, 60 offers to first-preference applicants.
Department for Education, school-level applications and offers, figures on national offer day. Earlier years are in the pass.
Last distance offered and catchment
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- Last distance offered for Reception 2025 to 2026, as Leicester published it, drawn on the map
- Earlier years of applications and offers
- Crime, sold prices, broadband and transport around the school
A last distance offered describes one past year and is not a catchment or a promise of a place. Check with the council before you apply.
Nearby primary schools
Straight-line distance, in Leicester.
- Shaftesbury Junior School 0.2 mi Good
- Christ the King Catholic Voluntary Academy 0.7 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Dovelands Primary School 0.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Slater Primary School 0.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Fosse Mead Primary Academy 0.8 mi Good Last distance published
- Hazel Community Primary School 0.8 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Imperial Avenue Infant School 0.8 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Inglehurst Infant School 0.8 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published