Stafford Leys Community Primary School

Stafford Leys Community Primary School demonstrates strong overall performance with an emphasis on safeguarding, attendance, and behavior. Leaders have created a supportive and inclusive environment, allowing pupils to excel socially and academically. The curriculum is ambitious, coherently sequenced, and effectively implemented, ensuring that pupils build knowledge over time. However, there are some inconsistencies in the progress of disadvantaged and lower-attaining pupils that leaders are beginning to address.

Strengths

• Consistently strong attendance rates.
• Effective and well-structured behavior management across the school.
• Ambitious and coherently sequenced curriculum from early years to Year 6.
• Strong teaching practices with well-developed subject knowledge.
• Inclusive approach that supports pupils with additional needs effectively.
• Robust personal development program promoting wellbeing and responsibility.

Areas for Improvement

• Inconsistent progress for pupils with lower prior attainment.
• Variability in phonics outcomes affecting early reading foundations for some pupils.
• Disadvantaged pupils do not consistently achieve as well as their peers.

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 Stafford Leys Community Primary School attended 96.3% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 5.6% 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, 0.7% of pupils at Stafford Leys Community 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 Stafford Leys Community Primary School had 24.3 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 10.5% 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, 9.1% of pupils at Stafford Leys Community Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 2.1% 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 2024–25 Stafford Leys Community Primary School received £5,921 and spent £6,384 for each of its 598 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £388,000 (£649 per pupil).

Across all 19 schools of Bradgate Education Partnership, income was £7,352 and spending £7,630 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). Academy figures include a share of the trust's central services, shared out by pupil numbers, and are rounded to the nearest £1,000. Premises costs were defined differently from 2024, so compare them across that gap with care.

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All schools in Leicester · Leicestershire local authority: places and applications

Stafford Leys Community Primary School is part of Bradgate Education Partnership, which runs 19 schools. The nearest others:

• Ratby Primary School Leicester
• Newtown Linford Primary School Leicester
• Mercenfeld Primary School Markfield
• Church Hill Infant School Leicester
• Eastfield Primary School Leicester
• The Roundhill Academy Leicester
• The Merton Primary School Leicester
• The Pochin School Leicester
• Wreake Valley Academy Leicester
• Outwoods Edge Primary School Loughborough

What is Stafford Leys Community Primary School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Stafford Leys Community Primary School is Expected standard, from an inspection in March 2026.

When was Stafford Leys Community Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

Stafford Leys Community Primary School was last inspected in March 2026.

How many pupils does Stafford Leys Community Primary School have?

Stafford Leys Community Primary School has 607 pupils on roll.

What age range does Stafford Leys Community Primary School cover?

Stafford Leys Community Primary School for pupils aged 4 to 11.

What are Stafford Leys Community Primary School's SATs (KS2) results?

In 2025, 73% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Stafford Leys Community Primary School?

Stafford Leys Community Primary School is at Stafford Leys, Leicester Forest East, Leicester, Leicestershire, LE3 3LJ.