Krishna Avanti Primary School
Primary · Free schools · Ages 4–11 · 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 🔒
Krishna Avanti Primary School is a primary school in Leicester for ages 4–11 (free schools). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 11 May 2023. Leicester has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2025 to 2026 entry.
Krishna Avanti 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
- For Reception 2026, every applicant was offered a place; there were 43 first-choice applications for 58 offers, 0.7 first choices per offer, the 2nd lowest of 72 Leicester primary schools.
- In 2024/25, 73% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), the 3rd highest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest primary schools in Leicester.
- Of the 105 Reception 2026 applications, 38 (36%) came from families living outside Leicester, and 19 offers went to them.
- Free school meal eligibility stands at 5.6% of pupils, against a middle figure of 22.1% 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
- Spencefield Lane, Evington, Leicester, LE5 6HN
- Type
- Free schools
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Religious character
- Hindu
- Council
- Leicester
- Pupils on roll
- 414 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 5.6% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 22.3
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 11 May 2023
Strengths
- “Krishna Avanti Primary School is happy and thriving.”
- “Pupils are proud of their school.”
- “Everyone has been very welcoming.”
To improve
- “However, there are inconsistencies in what some pupils can remember about their learning.”
- “In some subjects, leaders have not identified precisely the key knowledge that pupils need to learn.”
- “Leaders have rightly identified that in some subjects, the teaching of the curriculum does not consistently help pupils to know and remember more over time.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 19 June 2023 (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) | 73% | 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: 43 first-preference applications, 58 offers in total, 43 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.
- Whitehall Primary School 0.1 mi Good Last distance published
- Linden Primary School 0.7 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Thurnby Mead Primary Academy 0.7 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Rowlatts Mead Primary Academy 0.8 mi Good Last distance published
- Willowbrook Mead Primary Academy 0.9 mi Good Last distance published
- Coleman Primary School 1.0 mi Not judged Last distance published
- St Joseph's Catholic Academy 1.2 mi Good Last distance published
- Mayflower Primary School 1.3 mi Not judged Last distance published