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Kingsway Primary School

Primary Ages 5-11 312 pupils Leicester
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Kingsway Primary School is an academy converter in Leicester for pupils aged 5 to 11. It has 312 pupils on roll. In 2025, 49% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

KS2 results: 2025.

Type Primary / Academy converter
Age Range 5-11
Religion Does not apply
Address Kingsway North
Braunstone Town
Leicester
Leicestershire
LE3 3BD
Phone 01162898525
Reference Number 144538

General Makeup

Number of pupils 312
Boy/Girl ratio Boys: 52.88%
Girls: 47.12%
Percentage of students eligible for free school meals 24.7%
Percentage of students where English is not their first language 32.1%

Class Sizes

Average size of one teacher classes 25.4
Average size of Key Stage 1 classes taught by one teacher 24
Average size of Key Stage 2 classes taught by one teacher 26.5

Year Groups

Year Boys Girls Total
1 23 23 46
2 20 19 39
3 26 23 49
4 29 17 46
5 23 28 51
6 23 23 46

Ethnicities

Ethnicity Percentage
White, British 50.6%
White, Other 12.8%
African 10.9%
Indian 8.7%
Asian, Other 4.5%
White & Asian 2.9%
White & Black (African) 1.9%
Mixed, Other 1.9%
White & Black (Caribbean) 1.3%
Caribbean 1%
Pakistani 1%
Unclassified 0.6%

Overall Ofsted Rating
Last Report Date 14 Jun 2022 – no overall grade published for this inspection
Date Report
14 Jun 2022 School inspection
04 Jan 2018 Academy conversion letter
14 May 2014 Full inspection:
Previously as Kingsway Primary School
22 Nov 2012 Monitoring visit
13 Sep 2012 Full inspection:
07 Jan 2011 Interim assessment
15 Jan 2008 Full inspection:
24 Mar 2003 Full inspection

How many students meet the standards

Reading, Writing & Maths School Score Percentile (local) Percentile (nationwide)
Pupils meeting the expected standard 49%
Pupils meeting a higher standard 6%

Average Scaled Score

Results are converted into scaled scores to allow accurate comparisons of performance over time even if the difficulty of the test varies over time. Scaled scores range from 80 to 120.

Subject School Percentile (local) Percentile (nationwide)
Reading 103
Maths 102

Progress Scores

A progress score is a way to measure how well a student progressed in comparison to other students of a similar starting ability. A score of zero means would mean that a student made the same progress as others that had a similar starting a ability. A positive score would mean that the student made more progress than other students of similar starting ability. The scores below are for the whole school so is the average progress score across all students.

Metric School Score Percentile (local) Percentile (nationwide)
Reading -3.1
Writing -2.9
Maths -2.5

How many students meet the standards

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Average Scaled Score

Results are converted into scaled scores to allow accurate comparisons of performance over time even if the difficulty of the test varies over time. Scaled scores range from 80 to 120.

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Progress Scores

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Reception admissions, 2026 entry

Number of Applications Number of Offers
First Preference
Second Preference 22 4
Third Preference 22 3
From another Local Authority 10 5

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Places and pupil numbers

In 2024–25 Kingsway Primary School had 320 pupils for 315 places. That is 5 more pupils than the school has room for.

Pupils and places

Reception intake in the “Braunstone LFE Primary” planning area

Leicestershire counted 338 Reception pupils in this area in 2024–25 and forecasts 319 in 2029–30, down 6%.

2018201920212022202320242025
Places 315315315315315315315
Pupils 307307307315310324320
Unfilled 2.5%2.5%2.5%0.0%1.6%0.0%0.0%

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 Kingsway Primary School attended 95.3% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 10.9% of pupils were persistently absent, missing at least one session in ten (nationally 13.0%).

Sessions missed

Pupils persistently absent

2018201920212022202320242025
Authorised absence 2.3%2.0%2.4%4.9%3.7%4.0%3.4%
Unauthorised absence 1.1%0.9%0.7%1.3%1.8%1.9%1.3%
Severely absent pupils 0.4%0.4%0.0%0.4%0.7%1.0%1.7%

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, 1.3% of pupils at Kingsway Primary School were suspended at least once (nationally 1.1%). No pupils were permanently excluded.

Pupils suspended at least once

20182019202020212022202320242025
Suspensions per 100 pupils 1.00.70.00.71.30.34.43.2
Permanent exclusions 00000000

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 Kingsway Primary School had 20.5 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 13.0% were no longer at the school a year later (nationally 15.7%).

Pupils per teacher

Teachers who left the school within a year

20192020202120222023202420252026
Pupils per adult 11.513.012.211.210.010.811.410.7
Teachers who left state teaching 3.0%11.0%17.7%13.4%12.5%15.7%13.0%–
Teachers who took any sick leave 72.7%–42.9%65.2%56.0%63.6%77.8%–
Sick days per teacher 2.6–0.85.75.64.018.3–

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, 11.9% of pupils at Kingsway Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 6.4% had an education, health and care (EHC) plan (nationally 4.1%).

The school has a SEN unit with 11 pupils.

Pupils by main type of need

SEN support EHC plan
Social, emotional and mental health 9 12
Speech, language and communication needs 11 5
Moderate learning difficulty 5 1
Other difficulty or disability 4 0
Autistic spectrum disorder 2 1
Specific learning difficulty 3 0
Hearing impairment 1 1
No specialist assessment of need 1 0
Vision impairment 1 0

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 Kingsway Primary School received £7,345 and spent £7,010 for each of its 315 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £167,000 (£530 per pupil).

Across all 10 schools of Life Multi-Academy Trust, income was £8,357 and spending £8,230 per pupil.

Income per pupil

Spending per pupil

2019202020212022202320242025
Revenue reserve £149,000£119,000£146,000£132,000£137,000£95,000£167,000
per pupil £487£387£480£424£450£302£530
In-year balance £16,000£108,000-£8,000£40,000£1,000-£45,000£105,000
per pupil £53£351-£25£129£5-£144£334

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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Granby Primary School
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Name Distance
The Winstanley School
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0.08 miles
Emmanuel Christian School
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0.53 miles
Ellesmere College
40 Braunstone Lane East, Leicester, Leicestershire, LE3 2FD
1.1 miles
Fullhurst Community College
Imperial Avenue, Leicester, Leicestershire, LE3 1AH
1.13 miles
West Gate School
Glenfield Road, Leicester, Leicestershire, LE3 6DG
1.47 miles
The Herewoode Academy
Glenfield Road, Leicester, LE3 6DN
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Castle Mead Academy
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2.11 miles
Brook Mead Academy
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2.19 miles
Leicester College
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2.25 miles
The Children's Hospital School
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Brockington College
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2.34 miles
English Martyrs' Catholic School, A Voluntary Academy
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2.49 miles
Millgate School
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2.54 miles
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2.6 miles
Indie Education
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2.65 miles
WQE and Regent College Group
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2.66 miles
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2.69 miles
Sir Jonathan North Girls' College
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2.72 miles
Lancaster Academy
Knighton Lane East, Leicester, Leicestershire, LE2 6FU
2.73 miles
Beaumont Leys School
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2.74 miles

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Kingsway Primary School is part of Life Multi-Academy Trust, which runs 10 schools. The nearest others:

How many pupils does Kingsway Primary School have?

Kingsway Primary School has 312 pupils on roll.

What age range does Kingsway Primary School cover?

Kingsway Primary School for pupils aged 5 to 11.

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

In 2025, 49% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Kingsway Primary School?

Kingsway Primary School is at Kingsway North, Braunstone Town, Leicester, Leicestershire, LE3 3BD.

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