Overdale Infant School
Primary · Academy converter · 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 🔒
Overdale Infant School is a primary school in Leicester for ages 3–7 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Not judged, from the inspection on 21 January 2025. Leicester has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2025 to 2026 entry.
Overdale Infant 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 Reception applicant was offered a place in 2026, with 83 first-choice applications for 84 offers; places ran out in 2025, the earlier year with a published outcome.
- For Reception 2026, 29 of the 136 applications (21%) came from families living outside Leicester, and 17 offers went to them.
- Free school meal eligibility is 7.4% of pupils, against a middle figure of 23.2% across the 8 nearest primary schools in Leicester.
- Ofsted's last graded outcome was Requires improvement (21 September 2022), with a Not judged visit on 21 January 2025; 7 of the 8 nearest Leicester primary schools are Good.
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
- Eastcourt Road, Knighton, Leicester, LE2 3YA
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–7
- Council
- Leicester
- Pupils on roll
- 352 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 7.4% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 18.6
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Not judged Inspected 21 January 2025
Strengths
- “This is a warm and welcoming school where parents and carers appreciate the positive ethos.”
- “The school is ambitious for all pupils to flourish and succeed.”
- “The school has high expectations for pupils’ behaviour and conduct.”
To improve
- “A small number of pupils need some reminders about the school’s expectations to respect one another at social times of the day.”
- “Some aspects of the early years curriculum in the Reception Year do not provide sufficient progression from pre-school.”
- “The school’s curriculum is not as embedded in Reception as it is in pre-school.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 17 March 2025 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 83 first-preference applications, 84 offers in total, 83 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.
- Overdale Junior School 0.1 mi School remains Good
- St Thomas More Catholic Voluntary Academy 0.6 mi Good Last distance published
- Avenue Primary School 0.9 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Marriott Primary School 1.1 mi Good Last distance published
- St John the Baptist CofE Primary School 1.1 mi Good Last distance published
- Holy Cross Catholic School, a Voluntary Academy 1.1 mi Good Last distance published
- Knighton Mead Primary Academy 1.1 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Montrose School 1.5 mi Not judged Last distance published