Brook Mead Academy
Secondary · Free schools · Ages 11–16 · Leicester
Last distance offered · Year 7 2026
0.767 miles
Published by Leicester City Council · offers on 2 March 2026
2023–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Brook Mead Academy is a secondary school in Leicester for ages 11–16 (free schools). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Outstanding, from the inspection on 19 March 2024. Leicester has published a last distance offered for this school for Year 7 2023 to 2026 entry.
Brook Mead 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 |
|---|---|
| Year 7 2026 | 0.767 mi |
| Year 7 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2023 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- For Year 7 in 2026, the last child offered a place lived 0.767 miles away, the 2nd shortest of 7 Leicester secondary schools with a published last distance.
- Year 7 last distances swung sharply between some years; the 2026 distance was nearer the school than in 2025.
- For Year 7 in 2026, there were 301 first-choice applications for 245 offers; 228 offers went to first-choice families and 73 first-choice families were not offered a place.
- 29.3% of pupils are eligible for free school meals; the middle figure across the 8 nearest secondary schools in Leicester is 39.9%.
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
- 2 Garland Crescent, Leicester, LE3 9BN
- Type
- Free schools
- Phase
- Secondary
- Ages
- 11–16
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Council
- Leicester
- Pupils on roll
- 1,104 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 29.3% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 18.1
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Outstanding Inspected 19 March 2024
Strengths
- “Brook Mead Academy provides an exceptional quality of education.”
- “Staff are unashamedly ambitious for pupils.”
- “There is absolute determination that pupils will excel.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 8 May 2024 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Year 7 entry: 301 first-preference applications, 245 offers in total, 228 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 secondary schools
Straight-line distance, in Leicester.
- English Martyrs' Catholic School, A Voluntary Academy 0.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Castle Mead Academy 0.7 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Beaumont Leys School 0.8 mi Not judged Last distance published
- The Herewoode Academy 1.0 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Babington Academy 1.2 mi Good Last distance published
- Fullhurst Community College 1.5 mi Good Last distance published
- Moat Community College 1.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Rushey Mead Academy 2.3 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published