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Humberstone Infant Academy
Primary · Mixed · Ages 3–7 · Sponsored academy
Main Street, Humberstone, Leicester LE5 1AE · 0116 276 7648
Overview
- Ofsted
- Improving
- Ungraded inspection · Jun 2024
- 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
- 249
- 92% of 270 places
- Local authority
- Leicester
- Nursery class
- Yes
- Free school meals
- 15.7%
- First language not English
- 38.2%
- 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, 71 families put the school first and 73 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 | 73 | 71 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 70 | 69 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 83 | 82 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 81 | 76 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 90 | 88 | 1 | 95% |
Ofsted
At an ungraded inspection on 12 June 2024, Ofsted’s outcome for Humberstone Infant Academy was: School remains Good (Improving) - S5 Next.
- Outcome
- Improving
- Inspected
- 11 Jun 2024
- Ungraded inspection
Safeguarding effectiveInspection reports
Previously: Good, graded inspection, Feb 2019
Earlier inspections
Including inspections of the predecessor school (URN 120012), which Ofsted links to this one.
Before September 2019
Feb 2019Good
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 Sept 2015Requires improvement
Outcomes for pupils Requires improvement Personal development, behaviour and welfare Requires improvement Leadership and management Requires improvement Early years Requires improvement Safeguarding Effective Inspection of the predecessor school (URN 120012)
What parents said
83% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (23 replies, to 7 April 2025).
- Recommend
- 83%
- Replies
- 23
- 8% · 7 Apr 2025
based on the 74% who raised concerns
based on the 43% who had a child bullied