Fosse Mead Primary Academy
Primary · Academy sponsor led · 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 🔒
Fosse Mead Primary Academy is a primary school in Leicester for ages 3–11 (academy sponsor led). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 2 July 2024. Leicester has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2025 to 2026 entry.
Fosse 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
- Free school meal eligibility stands at 40.6% of pupils, against a middle figure of 24.6% across the 8 nearest primary schools in Leicester.
- In 2026 every Reception applicant was offered a place, with 53 first-choice applications for 57 offers and 4 offers going to families who ranked it second or lower.
- In 2024/25, 58% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 7% 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
- Balfour Street, Leicester, LE3 5EA
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- Leicester
- Pupils on roll
- 433 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 40.6% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 20.1
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 2 July 2024
Strengths
- “Fosse Mead Primary Academy is thriving.”
- “The school has been on a rapid journey of improvement.”
- “Leaders have put ambitious sequences of learning in place in all subjects.”
To improve
- “However, these changes did not have sufficient time to impact on the outcomes of previous cohorts.”
- “However, staff do not systematically revisit and build on prior learning as effectively as they could in all areas of the curriculum.”
- “This is because, although the school has put clear sequences of learning in place for each subject, it has not identified the most important content in some subjects that pupils need to remember and use again.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 9 September 2024 (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) | 58% | 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: 53 first-preference applications, 57 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.
- Slater Primary School 0.3 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Inglehurst Junior School 0.4 mi Good
- Inglehurst Infant School 0.5 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Alderman Richard Hallam Primary School 0.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Stokes Wood Primary School 0.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- King Richard III Infant and Nursery School 0.8 mi Requires improvement Last distance published
- Christ the King Catholic Voluntary Academy 0.8 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Parks Primary School 0.8 mi Not judged Last distance published