Lady Jane Grey Primary School

Lady Jane Grey Primary is performing well overall, with inspectors finding good provision across the quality of education, behaviour and attitudes, personal development, leadership and management, and early years. Pupils are respectful, kind and achieve well, and parents strongly recommend the school. Notable strengths include a strong reading culture and structured phonics, an improved early years curriculum with an impressive outdoor area, effective English and mathematics teaching, and good support for pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities. Safeguarding is effective. The school has significant context: it was previously judged outstanding and exempt from routine inspection until 2020, had not been inspected under section 5 since 2015, and this was its first routine inspection since the COVID-19 pandemic. It joined Raleigh Education Trust in May 2025 after several months of trust support, which has contributed to improvements, including in early years. Inspectors found that the trust has a secure understanding of the school and clear oversight systems. However, some subjects lack clear identification and sequencing of the knowledge pupils need to learn, which sometimes leads to weaker curriculum implementation and less secure pupil knowledge. The school’s checking of curriculum implementation and impact is not always rigorous enough, so some areas for development are not identified or addressed swiftly. Professional development for staff has also been limited, and achievement is not yet consistently strong across the curriculum.

Strengths

• Respectful relationships and a welcoming community are central to the school
• Pupils are polite, well-mannered and achieve well
• A strong reading culture is supported by a central library and frequent visits
• The phonics programme starts promptly in Reception and pupils achieve well
• The early years curriculum has improved, with an impressive outdoor learning area
• English and mathematics are clearly defined and delivered effectively
• Recent improvements help identify and support pupils with SEND well
• Personal development is prioritised through the RESPECT values and revised PSHE
• Safeguarding arrangements are effective
• Parents wholeheartedly recommend the school and staff are proud to work there

Areas for Improvement

• In some subjects, the knowledge pupils need to learn is not clearly identified and sequenced
• Teachers sometimes make unsuitable decisions about what to teach or overload pupils with too much information
• Pupils' knowledge in some subjects is less secure and builds less well on prior learning
• The school's checking of curriculum implementation and impact is not rigorous enough
• Some areas for development are not identified or addressed as swiftly as possible
• Staff have received limited professional development to enhance expertise and drive improvement
• Pupils' achievement is not as consistently strong across the curriculum as it should be

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 Lady Jane Grey Primary School attended 95.8% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 6.6% 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, 0.0% of pupils at Lady Jane Grey 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 Lady Jane Grey Primary School had 23.1 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 0.0% 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, 5.6% of pupils at Lady Jane Grey Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 2.6% 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 2023–24 Lady Jane Grey Primary School received £5,724 and spent £5,714 for each of its 210 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £10,000 (£48 per pupil).

Across all 4 schools of Raleigh Education Trust, income was £11,489 and spending £10,954 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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Lady Jane Grey Primary School is part of Raleigh Education Trust, which runs 5 schools. The nearest others:

• Ash Lea Academy Cotgrave
• Woodlands Academy Nottingham
• Willowfield Academy Nottingham
• Ambleside Primary School Nottingham

What is Lady Jane Grey Primary School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Lady Jane Grey Primary School is Good, from an inspection in July 2025.

When was Lady Jane Grey Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

Lady Jane Grey Primary School was last inspected in July 2025.

How many pupils does Lady Jane Grey Primary School have?

Lady Jane Grey Primary School has 196 pupils on roll.

What age range does Lady Jane Grey Primary School cover?

Lady Jane Grey Primary School for pupils aged 4 to 11.

What are Lady Jane Grey Primary School's SATs (KS2) results?

In 2025, 70% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Lady Jane Grey Primary School?

Lady Jane Grey Primary School is at Wolsey Close, Groby, Leicester, Leicestershire, LE6 0ZA.