St Mary's Fields Academy
Primary · Academy sponsor led · Ages 3–11 · 410, Leicester
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
0.838 miles
Published by Leicester City Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2025 figure 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
St Mary's Fields Academy is a primary school in 410, Leicester for ages 3–11 (academy sponsor led). Leicester has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2025 to 2026 entry.
St Mary's Fields 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 | 0.838 mi |
| Reception 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- In 2024/25, 62% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), while 3% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- The Reception 2026 last distance offered was 0.838 miles, the 2nd longest of 10 Leicester primary schools with a published last distance (middle figure 0.66 miles).
- There were 63 first-choice applications for 60 Reception offers in 2026; all 60 offers went to first-choice families, and 3 first-choice families (5%) were not offered a place.
- 21% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 32.1% 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
- 21 Compton Road, 21 Compton Road, 410, LE3 2DH
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- Leicester
- Pupils on roll
- 433 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 21% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 21.3
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
No Ofsted grade
Exam results
| Measure | School | England |
|---|---|---|
| Key stage 2 · reading, writing and maths, expected standard (2024/25) | 62% | 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: 63 first-preference applications, 60 offers in total, 60 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.
- Imperial Avenue Infant School 0.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Folville Junior School 0.5 mi Standards maintained
- Caldecote Community Primary School 0.7 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Shaftesbury Junior School 0.8 mi Good
- Hazel Community Primary School 0.8 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Granby Primary School 0.8 mi Good Last distance published
- Knighton Mead Primary Academy 1.0 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- King Richard III Infant and Nursery School 1.0 mi Requires improvement Last distance published