Thurnby Mead Primary Academy
Primary · Academy converter · 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 🔒
Thurnby Mead Primary Academy is a primary school in Leicester for ages 3–11 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Standards maintained, from the inspection on 21 May 2025. Leicester has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2025 to 2026 entry.
Thurnby Mead 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 applicant was offered a place for Reception in 2026, while a last distance was published for Reception in 2025.
- For Reception 2026, there were 24 first-choice applications for 27 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place and 3 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- 2024/25 reading, writing and maths: 43% met the expected standard (England 62%), 2nd lowest of 8 schools: this one and the 7 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
- Dudley Avenue, Leicester, LE5 2EG
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- Leicester
- Pupils on roll
- 248 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 24.6% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 19.5
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Standards maintained Inspected 21 May 2025
Strengths
- “Pupils are happy and thrive in this welcoming and inclusive school.”
- “Staff build strong relationships with pupils to create a secure and supportive environment.”
- “The school provides an ambitious curriculum that helps pupils achieve well.”
To improve
- “In a few subjects, where the curriculum is being reviewed, the school has not yet ensured that staff have the knowledge that they need to deliver the curriculum effectively.”
- “Learning activities and how staff adapt them for differing needs do not focus as precisely on what pupils need to learn.”
- “As a result, pupils do not learn consistently well across the full curriculum.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 26 June 2025 (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) | 43% | 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: 24 first-preference applications, 27 offers in total, 24 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.
- Willowbrook Mead Primary Academy 0.4 mi Good Last distance published
- St Joseph's Catholic Academy 0.5 mi Good Last distance published
- Krishna Avanti Primary School 0.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Scraptoft Valley Primary School 0.7 mi Good Last distance published
- Whitehall Primary School 0.8 mi Good Last distance published
- Rowlatts Mead Primary Academy 0.9 mi Good Last distance published
- Humberstone Infant Academy 0.9 mi School remains Good (Improving) - S5 Next Last distance published
- Humberstone Junior School 0.9 mi Outstanding