Martinshaw Primary School

Martinshaw Primary School maintains its status as a good school, with pupils demonstrating pride in their school and actively engaging with its values of respect, kindness, resilience, aspiration, uniqueness, and confidence. The school fosters a caring environment, where staff have high expectations of pupils and provide support both academically and personally. The curriculum is broadly designed and ambitious, allowing pupils to build knowledge effectively over time, especially in computing and reading. However, there is a need for a more thorough review of the foundation subjects to ensure comprehensive learning across all areas.

Strengths

• Pupils demonstrate pride in their school and actively embody its values.
• The school provides a caring and welcoming atmosphere.
• Teachers have high expectations and understand pupils' strengths.
• The curriculum is broad and ambitious, particularly in computing.
• Effective support is provided for pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND).
• Pupils show enthusiasm for learning and enjoy a variety of extracurricular activities.

Areas for Improvement

• The curriculum for foundation subjects has not been fully reviewed to maximize knowledge acquisition.
• A small number of pupils do not consistently model the school's expected values of respect and kindness.

Admissions: local authority offers data from the Department for Education. A school is oversubscribed when at least 5% of the families who put it first were not offered a place, and undersubscribed when everyone who put it first got in but 10% or more of its places were unfilled in the Department's school capacity survey (the latest survey is used for entry years it does not cover). Places: Department for Education, School capacity, from local authorities' annual survey as at 1 May. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024–25); the survey was not run in 2020. Places include sixth form places. Forecasts are the local authority's own for the school's planning area, an area it uses to plan places that is not the school's catchment area. The forecast starts from a head count in 2025; the dashed line is the Department's estimate of places in that area, including those the authority has firm plans for. Planned places are cumulative, and only those with firm plans are counted.

In 2024–25 pupils at Martinshaw Primary School attended 96.2% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 8.4% of pupils were persistently absent, missing at least one session in ten (nationally 13.0%).

Sessions missed

Pupils persistently absent

Source: Department for Education, Pupil absence in schools in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). Persistent absence means missing 10% or more of sessions; severe absence means 50% or more. No figures were published for 2019/20.

In 2024–25, 0.0% of pupils at Martinshaw Primary School were suspended at least once (nationally 1.1%). No pupils were permanently excluded.

Pupils suspended at least once

Source: Department for Education, Suspensions and permanent exclusions in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). A pupil can be suspended more than once, so suspensions per 100 pupils can be higher than the share of pupils suspended. Very small numbers are hidden by the DfE. Exclusion figures dropped in 2020 and 2021 because of school closures.

In 2025–26 Martinshaw Primary School had 21.4 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 10.6% were no longer at the school a year later (nationally 15.7%).

Pupils per teacher

Teachers who left the school within a year

Source: Department for Education, School workforce in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). Pupils per teacher counts full-time-equivalent pupils and teachers. Turnover is the share of a year's teachers (full-time equivalent) who were not at the school the following year, whether they moved to another school or left state-funded teaching. Turnover and sickness figures run one year behind the ratios. Sick leave is the share of teachers who took at least one day in the year, so it swings widely at small schools, where a few teachers can make it 0% or 100%. The national figures are for all state schools of the same type.

In 2025–26, 5.1% of pupils at Martinshaw Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 4.1% had an education, health and care (EHC) plan (nationally 4.1%).

Pupils by main type of need

Source: Department for Education, Special educational needs in England (the 2025–26 school census). SEN support is extra help in school without an EHC plan. National figures are for all state-funded primary schools. Counts are as published, with small numbers not hidden.

In 2025–26 Martinshaw Primary School received £7,125 and spent £7,508 for each of its 197 pupils. It ended the year with a deficit of £53,000 (-£269 per pupil).

Income per pupil

Spending per pupil

Source: Department for Education, Financial Benchmarking and Insights Tool. Each year is the one the financial year ends in (2024 is 2023–24).

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What is Martinshaw Primary School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Martinshaw Primary School is Good, from an inspection in July 2024.

When was Martinshaw Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

Martinshaw Primary School was last inspected in July 2024.

How many pupils does Martinshaw Primary School have?

Martinshaw Primary School has 197 pupils on roll.

What age range does Martinshaw Primary School cover?

Martinshaw Primary School for pupils aged 3 to 11.

What are Martinshaw Primary School's SATs (KS2) results?

In 2025, 57% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Martinshaw Primary School?

Martinshaw Primary School is at Forest Rise, Groby, Leicester, Leicestershire, LE6 0BB.