Sandfield Close Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 4–11 · Leicester
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
0.378 miles
Published by Leicester City Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2025 figure 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Sandfield Close Primary School is a primary school in Leicester for ages 4–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Not judged, from the inspection on 29 October 2024. Leicester has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2025 to 2026 entry.
Sandfield Close 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 | 0.378 mi |
| Reception 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- At 0.378 miles, the Reception 2026 last distance offered was nearer than in 2025 and the shortest of 10 Leicester primary schools with a published Reception 2026 last distance.
- Reception 2026 drew 34 first-choice applications for 30 offers; 29 offers went to first-choice families, and 5 first-choice families (15%) were not offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 64% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), while 0% 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
- Sandfield Close, Leicester, LE4 7RE
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Council
- Leicester
- Pupils on roll
- 250 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 16.4% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 21.2
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Not judged Inspected 29 October 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils are happy at this school.”
- “They understand the school’s values of responsibleness, respectfulness, resilience and resourcefulness, and they demonstrate these to each other and the staff.”
- “Pupils are kind and have a deep appreciation of diversity and equality, which helps everyone in the school to feel welcome.”
To improve
- “However, in some subjects, the school has not made it clear what pupils will learn and when.”
- “This hinders teachers in designing learning activities that emphasise this important information.”
- “However, sometimes, teachers do not use assessment sufficiently well in lessons so that activities and the work pupils receive are ambitious for all.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 5 December 2024 (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) | 64% | 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: 34 first-preference applications, 30 offers in total, 29 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.
- Herrick Primary School 0.4 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Wyvern Primary School 0.8 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Rushey Mead Primary School 1.0 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Mellor Community Primary School 1.1 mi School remains Good (Improving) - S5 Next Last distance published
- North Mead Primary Academy 1.1 mi School remains Good (Improving) - S5 Next Last distance published
- Saint Patrick's Catholic Voluntary Academy 1.2 mi Good Last distance published
- Hope Hamilton CofE Primary School 1.3 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Belgrave St Peter's CofE Primary School 1.4 mi Some aspects not as strong Last distance published