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Overdale Infant School
Primary · Mixed · Ages 3–7 · Academy
Eastcourt Road, Knighton, Leicester LE2 3YA · overdale-inf.leicester.sch.uk · 0116 288 2724
Overview
- Ofsted
- No overall grade
- 2019 framework · inspected Jan 2025
- 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
- 352
- 95% of 370 places
- Local authority
- Leicester
- Nursery class
- Yes
- Free school meals
- 7.6%
- First language not English
- 37.8%
- 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, 83 families put the school first and 84 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 | 84 | 83 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 89 | 88 | 1 | 99% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 107 | 105 | 1 | 99% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 85 | 84 | 1 | 98% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 119 | 118 | 1 | 95% |
Ofsted
Ofsted inspected Overdale Infant School on 21 January 2025 under its 2019 framework. Inspections from September 2024 give no overall grade.
- Overall
- No overall grade
- Inspected
- 21 Jan 2025
- 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: Requires improvement, graded inspection, Sept 2022
Earlier inspections
Including inspections of the predecessor school (URN 120021), which Ofsted links to this one.
September 2019 to November 2025
Sept 2022Requires improvement
Quality of education Requires improvement Behaviour and attitudes Good Personal development Good Leadership and management Requires improvement Early years Good Safeguarding Effective
Before September 2019
Oct 2010Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Leadership and management Good Early years Good Inspection of the predecessor school (URN 120021)
Sept 2007Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Leadership and management Good Early years Good Inspection of the predecessor school (URN 120021)
What parents said
90% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (89 replies, to 1 September 2025).
- Recommend
- 90%
- Replies
- 89
- 28% · 1 Sept 2025
based on the 72% who raised concerns
based on the 29% who had a child bullied
based on 11 parents (12%) with SEND