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Imperial Avenue Infant School
Primary · Mixed · Ages 3–7 · Community school
Imperial Avenue, Braunstone, Leicester LE3 1AH · imperialavenue.leicester.sch.uk · 0116 282 4503
Overview
- Ofsted
- Remains Good
- Ungraded inspection · Jun 2023
- Last distance offered
- No limit
- Reception, September 2026 entry · Leicester Council
- Demand for places
- 0.9
- first choices for each place · Reception, September 2026
- Pupils
- 300
- 93% of 324 places
- Local authority
- Leicester
- Nursery class
- Yes
- Free school meals
- 23.3%
- First language not English
- 46.3%
- School census 2025/26
The official school record (Department for Education)
Admissions
For Reception in September 2026, everyone who applied was offered a place. Source: Leicester Council’s document.
For Reception in September 2026, 75 families put the school first and 82 places were offered; 100% of those families were offered a place there. Admission depends on the school’s own rules.
First choices against places
| Reception | Places | First choices | Per place | % offered |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2026Sept 2026 | 82 | 75 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 90 | 85 | 0.9 | 95% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 90 | 75 | 0.8 | 99% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 75 | 62 | 0.8 | 100% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 90 | 89 | 1 | 100% |
Ofsted
At an ungraded inspection on 14 June 2023, Ofsted’s outcome for Imperial Avenue Infant School was: School remains Good.
- Outcome
- Remains Good
- Inspected
- 13 Jun 2023
- Ungraded inspection
Safeguarding effectiveInspection reports
Previously: Good, graded inspection, Sept 2017
Earlier inspections
Before September 2019
Sept 2017Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Personal development, behaviour and welfare Good Leadership and management Good Early years Good Safeguarding Effective Jun 2015Requires improvement
Outcomes for pupils Requires improvement Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Requires improvement Leadership and management Requires improvement Early years Good
What parents said
92% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (13 replies, to 1 April 2024).
- Recommend
- 92%
- Replies
- 13
- 4% · 1 Apr 2024
based on the 77% who raised concerns
based on the 15% who had a child bullied