East Leake Academy

East Leake Academy is performing well overall, with strong provision across education, behaviour, personal development, leadership and sixth form. Leaders have high aspirations for all pupils, including those with SEND, and have built a broad, ambitious and well-sequenced curriculum. Pupils benefit from a wide range of subjects, effective reading support, high-quality personal development and a strong extra-curricular offer. Behaviour in lessons is purposeful, safeguarding is effective, and staff feel well supported. Sixth-form students are aspirational and take part in leadership activities with younger pupils.

Strengths

• Broad and ambitious curriculum that is well sequenced across subjects
• Pupils build knowledge and skills over time and achieve well
• Weaker readers receive support to develop fluency and access the full curriculum
• Wide range of subjects at key stage 3 and a well-considered academic and vocational offer at key stage 4
• Specialist staff provide clear explanations and challenge pupils to think deeply in many lessons
• High-quality personal development covering careers, healthy living and relationships
• Strong extra-curricular provision and a focus on learning beyond the classroom
• Bespoke mental health and well-being support, including the school therapy dog
• Sixth-form students have high aspirations and develop leadership through the '6 for 6' programme
• Positive behaviour culture with pupils responding well to rewards
• Attendance is improving
• Staff feel leaders consider their workload and well-being, and early career teachers receive high-quality training
• Safeguarding arrangements are effective

Areas for Improvement

• Attendance of vulnerable pupils remains lower than that of their peers
• A small minority of pupils are not respectful of the female gender, meaning some girls do not feel as valued as boys
• Checking of pupils' understanding and addressing misconceptions is not consistently strong across lessons
• Outside the classroom, not all pupils demonstrate mutual respect, and some pupils feel treated differently by 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 East Leake Academy attended 91.1% of sessions (the national figure for secondary schools was 91.6%). 25.1% 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, 8.5% of pupils at East Leake Academy were suspended at least once (nationally 7.3%). 8 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 East Leake Academy had 17.2 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for secondary schools was 16.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 8.9% 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, 17.3% of pupils at East Leake Academy were on SEN support (nationally 14.1%) and 1.8% 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 2024–25 East Leake Academy received £7,701 and spent £8,105 for each of its 1,088 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £210,000 (£193 per pupil).

Across all 14 schools of Diverse Academies Trust, income was £8,591 and spending £8,593 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 Loughborough · Nottinghamshire local authority: places and applications

East Leake Academy is part of Diverse Academies Trust, which runs 16 schools. The nearest others:

• The Holgate Academy Nottingham
• Hillocks Primary Academy Sutton-In-Ashfield
• Horizons Academy Mansfield
• Redgate Primary Academy Mansfield
• Wainwright Primary Academy Mansfield
• Walton Academy Grantham
• Queen Elizabeth's Academy Mansfield
• Samuel Barlow Primary Academy Mansfield
• Yeoman Park Academy Mansfield
• Thoresby Vale Primary Academy Mansfield

What is East Leake Academy's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for East Leake Academy is Good, from an inspection in November 2024.

When was East Leake Academy last inspected by Ofsted?

East Leake Academy was last inspected in November 2024.

How many pupils does East Leake Academy have?

East Leake Academy has 1,118 pupils on roll.

What age range does East Leake Academy cover?

East Leake Academy for pupils aged 11 to 18.

What are East Leake Academy's GCSE results?

In 2026 its average Attainment 8 score was 49.5, and 50% of pupils achieved grade 5 or above in both English and maths GCSE.

Where is East Leake Academy?

East Leake Academy is at Lantern Lane, East Leake, Loughborough, Leicestershire, LE12 6QN.