Beaumont Leys School

Beaumont Leys is a highly inclusive and nurturing secondary school where pupils feel safe, behave very well and benefit from strong pastoral support. Inspectors found exceptional personal development and leadership, with pupils accessing an ambitious curriculum, a wide range of extra-curricular opportunities and effective support for SEND and reading. Parents are overwhelmingly positive about the school. The quality of education is good, with clear teaching, strong subject knowledge and a well-ordered curriculum. However, published outcomes show that achievement has not been consistently high across all subjects, and some pupils have left Year 11 less well prepared for their next steps than they could be. Leaders have already acted to improve weaker subjects, and current pupils are generally achieving better, but the school still needs to ensure high achievement across every subject. This was the school’s first routine inspection since the COVID-19 pandemic, and inspectors took that context into account. Safeguarding is effective, and the governing body knows the school well and holds leaders to account strongly.

Strengths

• Highly inclusive and nurturing school culture with high expectations for all pupils
• Pupils behave very well and are respectful, so learning is not disrupted
• Outstanding personal development programme that builds confidence and character
• Broad, ambitious and well-ordered curriculum reflecting the local community
• Staff present information clearly and use questioning well to check understanding
• Strong support for pupils with SEND, including effective training and curriculum access
• Reading is a priority, with a coherent strategy and skilled phonics teaching
• Tenacious approach to attendance with highly effective support for absent pupils
• Wide range of extra-curricular activities, expeditions and pupil responsibilities
• Comprehensive careers programme that prepares pupils well for life beyond school
• Governors understand the school extremely well and hold leaders to account effectively
• Staff value high-quality training and feel leaders consider their workload and well-being

Areas for Improvement

• Published outcomes show pupils have not achieved as well as they could in some subjects
• Some pupils have left Year 11 less suitably prepared for their next steps than they could have been
• The school needs to ensure pupils develop the skills and knowledge to achieve highly across all subjects

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 Beaumont Leys School attended 91.4% of sessions (the national figure for secondary schools was 91.6%). 24.3% of pupils were persistently absent, missing at least one session in ten (nationally 23.4%).

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, 6.3% of pupils at Beaumont Leys School were suspended at least once (nationally 7.3%). 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 Beaumont Leys School had 16.1 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for secondary schools was 16.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 12.7% were no longer at the school a year later (nationally 14.1%).

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, 15.6% of pupils at Beaumont Leys School were on SEN support (nationally 14.1%) and 2.1% had an education, health and care (EHC) plan (nationally 3.5%).

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 secondary schools. Counts are as published, with small numbers not hidden.

In 2025–26 Beaumont Leys School received £9,231 and spent £9,544 for each of its 1,063 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £1,267,000 (£1,192 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 Beaumont Leys School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Beaumont Leys School is Good, from an inspection in June 2025.

When was Beaumont Leys School last inspected by Ofsted?

Beaumont Leys School was last inspected in June 2025.

How many pupils does Beaumont Leys School have?

Beaumont Leys School has 1,062 pupils on roll.

What age range does Beaumont Leys School cover?

Beaumont Leys School for pupils aged 11 to 16.

What are Beaumont Leys School's GCSE results?

In 2026 its average Attainment 8 score was 50.3, and 46% of pupils achieved grade 5 or above in both English and maths GCSE.

Where is Beaumont Leys School?

Beaumont Leys School is at Anstey Lane, Leicester, Leicestershire, LE4 0FL.