Queensmead Primary Academy
Primary · Academy sponsor led · 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 🔒
Queensmead Primary Academy is a primary school in Leicester for ages 3–11 (academy sponsor led). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 1 May 2024. Leicester has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2025 to 2026 entry.
Queensmead Primary Academy 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 Reception applicant was offered a place in 2026, as at 59 of the 72 other Leicester primary schools with a published Reception 2026 outcome.
- Reception 2026 drew 34 first-choice applications for 36 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 2 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- In 2024/25, 87% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), while 8% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- That 2024/25 figure of 87% was the highest of 7 schools: this one and the 6 of the 8 nearest primary schools in Leicester that have results.
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
- Winstanley Drive, Braunstone, Leicester, LE3 1PF
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- Leicester
- Pupils on roll
- 370 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 34.9% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 21.5
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 1 May 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils are happy and safe at this welcoming school.”
- “It is a positive and ambitious place to learn.”
- “This begins in the early years, where they get off to a strong start.”
To improve
- “However, in some foundation subjects, pupils do not always have opportunities to revisit the knowledge they have learned.”
- “In some subjects, pupils do not always remember the important knowledge that they need to.”
- “They sometimes struggle to recall knowledge or connect their learning across subjects.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 11 June 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) | 87% | 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, 36 offers in total, 34 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.
- Braunstone Community Primary School 0.3 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Dovelands Primary School 0.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Christ the King Catholic Voluntary Academy 0.6 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Imperial Avenue Infant School 0.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Folville Junior School 0.8 mi Standards maintained
- Caldecote Community Primary School 1.0 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Inglehurst Infant School 1.0 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Braunstone Frith Primary Academy 1.0 mi Good Last distance published