Inglehurst Infant School
Primary · Academy sponsor led · 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 🔒
Inglehurst Infant School is a primary school in Leicester for ages 3–7 (academy sponsor led). Leicester has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2025 to 2026 entry.
Inglehurst 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 for Reception 2026 was offered a place, as at 59 of the 72 other Leicester primary schools with a published Reception 2026 outcome.
- Reception 2026 had 44 first-choice applications for 45 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 1 offer went to a family who ranked it second or lower.
- 24.6% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 35.2% 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
- Ingle Street, Leicester, LE3 9FS
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–7
- Council
- Leicester
- Pupils on roll
- 228 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 24.6% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 21.1
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
No Ofsted grade Inspected 12 May 2026
Strengths
- “Pupils feel safe at this school.”
- “They say adults listen to them and act quickly if they have a worry.”
- “Pupils learn how to keep themselves safe.”
To improve
- “Still, these outcomes remain below the national average.”
- “However, pupils' progress in securing important foundational knowledge in writing is more evident in English than in wider subjects, like history.”
- “Teachers identify gaps in foundational knowledge and misconceptions but do not follow this up consistently well.”
Safeguarding: met
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 6 July 2026 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 44 first-preference applications, 45 offers in total, 44 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.
- Inglehurst Junior School 0.0 mi Good
- Christ the King Catholic Voluntary Academy 0.4 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Parks Primary School 0.5 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Stokes Wood Primary School 0.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Fosse Mead Primary Academy 0.5 mi Good Last distance published
- Dovelands Primary School 0.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Slater Primary School 0.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Alderman Richard Hallam Primary School 0.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published