Uplands Infant School
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 2–7 · 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 🔒
Uplands Infant School is a primary school in Leicester for ages 2–7 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 26 October 2022. Leicester has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2025 to 2026 entry.
Uplands 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 2026 applicant was offered a place, as at 59 of the 72 other Leicester primary schools with a published Reception 2026 outcome.
- Reception 2026 had 91 first-choice applications for 93 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 2 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- 10.8% of pupils are eligible for free school meals; the middle figure across the 8 nearest primary schools in Leicester is 23.3%.
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
- Melbourne Road, Highfields, Leicester, LE2 0DR
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 2–7
- Council
- Leicester
- Pupils on roll
- 436 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 10.8% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 22.1
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 26 October 2022
Strengths
- “Parents and carers, staff and pupils speak warmly about the school.”
- “Parents say that teachers are ‘always ready to listen’ and ‘greet us with a smile’.”
- “The school lives up to its aim of providing a ‘happy, warm and caring environment’.”
To improve
- “Until recently, outcomes in early reading had declined.”
- “Leaders have not ensured that the outdoor provision is used equally well to develop children’s knowledge and skills.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 6 December 2022 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 91 first-preference applications, 93 offers in total, 91 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.
- Uplands Junior L.E.A.D. Academy 0.0 mi Standards maintained
- Highfields Primary School 0.1 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Sparkenhoe Community Primary School 0.2 mi Good Last distance published
- Medway Community Primary School 0.3 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Charnwood Primary School 0.4 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Spinney Hill Primary School 0.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Sacred Heart Catholic Voluntary Academy 0.5 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Shenton Primary School 0.5 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published