Merrydale 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 🔒
Merrydale Infant School is a primary school in Leicester for ages 3–7 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 21 November 2023. Leicester has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2025 to 2026 entry.
Merrydale 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 place for Reception 2026, as was the case at 59 of the 72 other Leicester primary schools with a published Reception 2026 outcome.
- Reception 2026 had 75 first-choice applications for 76 offers, and every first-choice family was offered a place.
- 13.8% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 21.4% 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
- Claydon Road, Leicester, LE5 0PL
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–7
- Council
- Leicester
- Pupils on roll
- 334 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 13.8% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 21.7
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 21 November 2023
Strengths
- “Merrydale Infant School is a welcoming and friendly school.”
- “Pupils are really happy to be part of this school.”
- “One pupil, echoing the views of many, said, ‘I love coming to school.”
To improve
- “Some pupils have gaps in their learning.”
- “This is because they have not been given sufficient time to revisit their previous learning.”
- “However, too many pupils are regularly absent from school for lengthy periods of time.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 22 January 2024 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 75 first-preference applications, 76 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.
- Merrydale Junior School 0.0 mi Standards maintained
- St Barnabas CofE Primary School 0.3 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- North Mead Primary Academy 0.5 mi School remains Good (Improving) - S5 Next Last distance published
- Green Lane Infant School 0.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Bridge Junior School 0.7 mi No Ofsted grade
- Falcons Primary School 0.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Sacred Heart Catholic Voluntary Academy 0.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Shenton Primary School 0.8 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published