Braunstone Community Primary School

Braunstone Community Primary School is performing well overall, receiving a good rating in all areas of the inspection. The school, which has not been previously inspected since its registration, demonstrates a strong commitment to providing a safe and nurturing environment for its pupils. The leadership team is dedicated to ensuring that students gain the knowledge and skills essential for their future success, while also fostering personal development through a well-planned curriculum and various enrichment activities. The positive school community, marked by good behavior and supportive relationships among staff and students, reflects the school's ethos of care and effort put into education.

Strengths

• Staff show high levels of care for pupils and prioritize their well-being.
• Pupils are eager to learn and display good manners and confidence.
• The curriculum is well-planned to promote both academic and personal development.
• Pupils achieve increasingly well in mathematics, writing, and other subjects.
• Reading is a priority, and pupils enjoy their reading experiences.

Areas for Improvement

• Some teachers occasionally drift from teaching plans, leading to less focused learning.
• Leaders do not consistently ensure all staff follow agreed phonics teaching approaches.
• The current curriculum does not include a modern foreign language.

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 Braunstone Community Primary School attended 93.8% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 21.4% 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, 0.2% of pupils at Braunstone 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 Braunstone Community Primary School had 19.3 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 14.2% 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, 17.5% of pupils at Braunstone Community Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 5.1% 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 Braunstone Community Primary School received £8,423 and spent £8,535 for each of its 422 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £375,000 (£888 per pupil).

Across all 20 schools of Discovery Schools Academies Trust Ltd, income was £9,576 and spending £9,975 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 · Leicester local authority: places and applications

Braunstone Community Primary School is part of Discovery Schools Academies Trust Ltd, which runs 21 schools. The nearest others:

• Fossebrook Primary School Leicester
• Millgate School Leicester
• Enderby Danemill Primary School Leicester
• Mowmacre Hill Primary School Leicester
• Woolden Hill Primary School Leicester
• Greystoke Primary School Leicester
• Merrydale Junior School Leicester
• Parkland Primary School South Wigston Wigston
• Ash Field Academy Leicester
• Badgerbrook Primary School Leicester

What is Braunstone Community Primary School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Braunstone Community Primary School is Good, from an inspection in March 2025.

When was Braunstone Community Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

Braunstone Community Primary School was last inspected in March 2025.

How many pupils does Braunstone Community Primary School have?

Braunstone Community Primary School has 429 pupils on roll.

What age range does Braunstone Community Primary School cover?

Braunstone Community Primary School for pupils aged 3 to 11.

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

In 2025, 75% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Braunstone Community Primary School?

Braunstone Community Primary School is at Cort Crescent, Braunstone, Leicester, Leicestershire, LE3 1QH.