Slater Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 3–11 · 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 🔒
Slater Primary School is a primary school in Leicester for ages 3–11 (community school). Leicester has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2025 to 2026 entry.
Slater 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 | 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
- In 2024/25, 67% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of primary school (England 62%).
- Its 2024/25 reading, writing and maths figure was the highest of 6 schools: this one and the 5 of the 8 nearest primary schools in Leicester that have results.
- Reception 2026 had 21 first-choice applications for 21 offers, and every applicant was offered a place; the published admission number for Reception 2027 is 30 places.
- 24.3% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, below the middle figure of 30.6% 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
- Slater Street, Frog Island, Leicester, LE3 5AS
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- Leicester
- Pupils on roll
- 189 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 24.3% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 17.3
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
No Ofsted grade Inspected 16 June 2026
Strengths
- “Pupils are proud to belong to the Slater Primary School community.”
- “They value their range of backgrounds, cultures and faiths and they make many friends easily.”
- “Pupils and staff go out of their way to help new pupils settle in.”
To improve
- “While some pupils do not attend school regularly enough, their attendance is beginning to improve.”
- “However, pupils’ behaviour and how they follow instructions or routines is inconsistent, particularly at social times.”
- “When pupils struggle to reach the school’s expectations, they do not always receive the right support.”
Safeguarding: met
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 28 August 2026 (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) | 67% | 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: 21 first-preference applications, 21 offers in total, 21 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.
- Fosse Mead Primary Academy 0.3 mi Good Last distance published
- Inglehurst Junior School 0.7 mi Good
- King Richard III Infant and Nursery School 0.7 mi Requires improvement Last distance published
- Inglehurst Infant School 0.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Alderman Richard Hallam Primary School 0.8 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Taylor Road Primary School 0.9 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Shaftesbury Junior School 0.9 mi Good
- Christ the King Catholic Voluntary Academy 1.0 mi Not judged Last distance published