Humberstone Infant Academy
Primary · Academy sponsor led · Ages 3–7 · 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 🔒
Humberstone Infant Academy is a primary school in Leicester for ages 3–7 (academy sponsor led). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good (Improving) - S5 Next, from the inspection on 12 June 2024. Leicester has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2025 to 2026 entry.
Humberstone Infant 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 applicant was offered a Reception place in 2026, as at 59 of the 72 other Leicester primary schools with a published Reception 2026 outcome.
- Reception 2026 drew 71 first-choice applications for 73 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 2 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- For Reception 2026, 18 of the 129 applications (14%) came from families living outside Leicester, and 5 offers went to them.
- Free school meals eligibility stands at 14.5% of pupils, against a middle figure of 24.1% 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
- Main Street, Humberstone, Leicester, LE5 1AE
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–7
- Council
- Leicester
- Pupils on roll
- 249 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 14.5% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 21.5
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good (Improving) - S5 Next Inspected 12 June 2024
Strengths
- “Humberstone Infant Academy is an aspirational and extremely well led school.”
- “The school has ambitious expectations for all pupils, including disadvantaged pupils and pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND), to succeed.”
- “Pupils respond incredibly positively to these expectations.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 12 July 2024 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 71 first-preference applications, 73 offers in total, 71 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 Junior School 0.0 mi Outstanding
- Falcons Primary School 0.2 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Joseph's Catholic Academy 0.7 mi Good Last distance published
- Merrydale Junior School 0.8 mi Standards maintained
- Rowlatts Mead Primary Academy 0.8 mi Good Last distance published
- Kestrel Mead Primary Academy 0.8 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Merrydale Infant School 0.8 mi Good Last distance published
- Thurnby Mead Primary Academy 0.9 mi Standards maintained Last distance published