Green Lane 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 🔒
Green Lane Infant School is a primary school in Leicester for ages 3–7 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 26 April 2023. Leicester has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2025 to 2026 entry.
Green Lane 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 applicant was offered a Reception place in 2026, as was the case at 59 of the 72 other Leicester primary schools with a published Reception 2026 outcome.
- Reception 2026 had 53 first-choice applications for 55 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place and 2 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- 15.5% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 21.3% across the 8 nearest primary schools in Leicester.
- The school has 19 pupils per teacher, against a middle figure of 21.5 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
- Spinney Hill Road, Leicester, LE5 3GG
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–7
- Council
- Leicester
- Pupils on roll
- 278 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 15.5% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 19
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 26 April 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils are very happy at Green Lane Infant School.”
- “They enjoy their learning and are greeted every day with a kind and caring ‘good morning’ from staff.”
- “Pupils feel safe at the school.”
To improve
- “However, not all staff use this approach consistently.”
- “However, not all subjects are as well developed.”
- “In these few subjects, pupils do not build their knowledge as progressively as they should.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 26 June 2023 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 53 first-preference applications, 55 offers in total, 53 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.
- Bridge Junior School 0.1 mi No Ofsted grade
- Sacred Heart Catholic Voluntary Academy 0.1 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Shenton Primary School 0.2 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Charnwood Primary School 0.4 mi Not judged Last distance published
- St Barnabas CofE Primary School 0.4 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Spinney Hill Primary School 0.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Catherine Infant School 0.5 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Merrydale Infant School 0.6 mi Good Last distance published