Charnwood Primary School

Charnwood Primary is an inclusive, supportive school where pupils feel safe and proud to attend. Inspectors found strong relationships, effective support for pupils with SEND and those learning English as an additional language, and a broad personal development offer. Reading is well taught, the curriculum is ambitious and vocabulary-focused, and pupils achieve well in many subjects and national assessments. Leadership, behaviour and personal development are all secure, and safeguarding is effective.

Strengths

• Inclusive school with strong friendships across multicultural communities
• Pupils feel safe, cared for and ready to succeed
• High aspirations with effective support for EAL and SEND pupils
• Pupils achieve well in many subjects and national assessments
• Clear, ambitious curriculum with vocabulary and language development at its heart
• Reading is well taught, including through phonics passports and targeted catch-up
• Pupils access the full curriculum with tailored support
• Broad extra-curricular offer including trips, clubs and performances
• Strong personal development and pupil voice
• Effective safeguarding arrangements
• Supportive staff training and trust-wide collaboration
• Effective oversight by trustees and local governing body

Areas for Improvement

• Early years provision requires improvement
• Early years independent activities do not consistently rehearse and embed key knowledge and routines
• Early years adults do not routinely extend children's communication and language
• Early years staff need more expertise to deliver the intended curriculum successfully
• Some curriculum activities do not secure pupils' grammar and sentence structure
• Pupils' misconceptions are not always fully resolved
• Curriculum implementation is not consistently strong, slowing learning at times

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 Charnwood Primary School attended 93.1% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 20.7% 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 Charnwood 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 Charnwood Primary School had 20.8 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 22.2% 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, 8.0% of pupils at Charnwood Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 1.8% 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 Charnwood Primary School received £6,011 and spent £5,943 for each of its 418 pupils. It ended the year with a deficit of £4,000 (-£9 per pupil).

Across all 9 schools of Attenborough Learning Trust, income was £6,814 and spending £6,613 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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Charnwood Primary School is part of Attenborough Learning Trust, which runs 9 schools. The nearest others:

• Shenton Primary School Leicester
• Bridge Junior School Leicester
• Highfields Primary School Leicester
• Green Lane Infant School Leicester
• Uplands Infant School Leicester
• Sparkenhoe Community Primary School Leicester
• Inglehurst Infant School Leicester
• Buswells Lodge Primary School Leicester

What is Charnwood Primary School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Charnwood Primary School is Good, from an inspection in May 2025.

When was Charnwood Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

Charnwood Primary School was last inspected in May 2025.

How many pupils does Charnwood Primary School have?

Charnwood Primary School has 400 pupils on roll.

What age range does Charnwood Primary School cover?

Charnwood Primary School for pupils aged 3 to 11.

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

In 2025, 67% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Charnwood Primary School?

Charnwood Primary School is at Nedham Street, Leicester, Leicestershire, LE2 0HE.