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Merrydale Infant School
Primary · Mixed · Ages 3–7 · Community school
Claydon Road, Leicester LE5 0PL · merrydale-inf.leicester.sch.uk · 0116 276 7593
Overview
- Ofsted
- Good
- 2019 framework · inspected Nov 2023
- Last distance offered
- No limit
- Reception, September 2026 entry · Leicester Council
- Demand for places
- 1.0
- first choices for each place · Reception, September 2026
- Pupils
- 334
- 64 over 270 places · 124%
- Local authority
- Leicester
- Nursery class
- Yes
- Free school meals
- 17%
- First language not English
- 84.4%
- 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 76 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 | 76 | 75 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 83 | 83 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 85 | 85 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 90 | 89 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 90 | 90 | 1 | 100% |
Ofsted
Merrydale Infant School was judged Good at its last graded inspection, on 21 November 2023, under Ofsted’s 2019 framework.
- Overall
- Good
- Inspected
- 21 Nov 2023
- Graded inspection
Safeguarding effectiveInspection reports
Graded areas
| Quality of education | Good |
|---|---|
| Behaviour and attitudes | Good |
| Personal development | Good |
| Leadership and management | Good |
| Early years | Good |
Previously: Concerns, ungraded inspection, Sept 2022
Earlier inspections
September 2019 to November 2025
Sept 2022Ungraded inspectionConcerns
Safeguarding Effective
Before September 2019
Feb 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 Mar 2012Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Leadership and management Good
What parents said
100% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (13 replies, to 4 September 2023).
- Recommend
- 100%
- Replies
- 13
- 4% · 4 Sept 2023
based on the 69% who raised concerns
based on the 38% who had a child bullied