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Stokes Wood Primary School
Primary · Mixed · Ages 3–11 · Community school
Blackett Avenue, Leicester LE3 9BX · stokeswood.leicester.sch.uk · 0116 287 5305
Overview
- Ofsted
- Remains Good
- Ungraded inspection · Jun 2023
- Key stage 2, 2024/25
- 64%
- reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths. Leicester 60%, England 62%
- 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
- 429
- 85% of 503 places
- Local authority
- Leicester
- Nursery class
- Yes
- Free school meals
- 37.2%
- First language not English
- 48%
- 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, 37 families put the school first and 37 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 | 37 | 37 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 40 | 39 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 40 | 40 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 40 | 40 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 36 | 35 | 1 | 100% |
Results
In 2024/25, 64% of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of key stage 2, and 2% the higher standard. Across Leicester it was 60%, and across England 62%.
Expected standard reading, writing and maths
| 2024/25 | Trend | School | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reading, writing and maths | |||
| ●64% | 62% | ||
| ▼2% | 8% | ||
| Average scaled score | |||
| ●104 | 106 | ||
| ●105 | 105 | ||
| ●106 | 105 | ||
Ofsted
At an ungraded inspection on 28 June 2023, Ofsted’s outcome for Stokes Wood Primary School was: School remains Good.
- Outcome
- Remains Good
- Inspected
- 27 Jun 2023
- Ungraded inspection
Safeguarding effectiveInspection reports
Previously: Good, graded inspection, Nov 2013
Earlier inspections
Before September 2019
May 2018Monitoring visit
Safeguarding Effective Nov 2013Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Leadership and management Good Oct 2008Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Leadership and management Good Early years Good
What parents said
87% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (23 replies, to 1 September 2025).
- Recommend
- 87%
- Replies
- 23
- 5% · 1 Sept 2025
based on the 61% who raised concerns
based on the 26% who had a child bullied