Rowlatts Mead Primary Academy
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 3–11 · Leicester
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
0.425 miles
Published by Leicester City Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2025 figure 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Rowlatts Mead Primary Academy is a primary school in Leicester for ages 3–11 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 3 October 2023. Leicester has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2025 to 2026 entry.
Rowlatts 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 | 0.425 mi |
| Reception 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- The Reception 2026 last distance offered was 0.425 miles, 3rd shortest of 10 Leicester primary schools with a published last distance, and nearer the school than in 2025.
- For Reception 2026 there were 65 first-choice applications for 60 offers, 1.1 first choices per offer, the 6th highest of 72 Leicester primary schools.
- All 60 Reception 2026 offers went to first-choice families, and 5 first-choice families were not offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 76% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 22% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
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
- Balderstone Close, Off Ambassador Road, Leicester, LE5 4ES
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- Leicester
- Pupils on roll
- 437 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 26.1% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 28
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 3 October 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils are very happy to attend Rowlatts Mead Primary Academy.”
- “They display very positive attitudes to all aspects of school life.”
- “There are no disruptions to learning.”
To improve
- “In some subjects, lesson activities do not reliably help pupils learn as well as they might.”
- “On occasion, staff do not check that pupils are secure in what they have learned in the past.”
- “When this happens, pupils struggle to make sense of new knowledge.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 10 November 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) | 76% | 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: 65 first-preference applications, 60 offers in total, 60 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.
- Coleman Primary School 0.7 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Whitehall Primary School 0.7 mi Good Last distance published
- St Barnabas CofE Primary School 0.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Krishna Avanti Primary School 0.8 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Humberstone Infant Academy 0.8 mi School remains Good (Improving) - S5 Next Last distance published
- Humberstone Junior School 0.8 mi Outstanding
- Merrydale Junior School 0.8 mi Standards maintained
- Merrydale Infant School 0.8 mi Good Last distance published