Falcons 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 🔒
Falcons 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 3 February 2023. Leicester has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2025 to 2026 entry.
Falcons 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
- Every applicant was offered a Reception place in 2026, as at 59 of the 72 other Leicester primary schools with a published Reception 2026 outcome.
- In 2026 Reception, there were 42 first-choice applications for 46 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 4 offers went to families ranking it second or lower.
- 10 of the 70 applications (14%) for Reception in 2026 came from families living outside Leicester, and 4 offers went to them.
- 2024/25 reading, writing and maths: 63% met the expected standard, the 2nd lowest among this school and 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
- George Hine House, Gipsy Lane, Leicester, LE5 0TA
- Type
- Free schools
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Religious character
- Sikh
- Council
- Leicester
- Pupils on roll
- 293 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 19.5% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 19.3
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 3 February 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils say their school is ‘brilliant’ because everyone matters in this respectful community.”
- “Pupils are proud of the contribution they make to the running of their school.”
- “They feel listened to by adults.”
To improve
- “However, curriculum leaders have not yet had training to accurately check how well their subject is implemented.”
- “They are not consistently helping colleagues to improve the delivery of the curriculum further.”
- “However, there are some pupils across the school who struggle to read.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 29 March 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) | 63% | 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: 42 first-preference applications, 46 offers in total, 42 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.
- Humberstone Infant Academy 0.2 mi School remains Good (Improving) - S5 Next Last distance published
- Humberstone Junior School 0.2 mi Outstanding
- Merrydale Junior School 0.6 mi Standards maintained
- Merrydale Infant School 0.7 mi Good Last distance published
- North Mead Primary Academy 0.8 mi School remains Good (Improving) - S5 Next Last distance published
- St Barnabas CofE Primary School 0.9 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Joseph's Catholic Academy 0.9 mi Good Last distance published
- Rowlatts Mead Primary Academy 0.9 mi Good Last distance published