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Fosse Mead Primary Academy
Primary · Mixed · Ages 3–11 · Sponsored academy
Balfour Street, Leicester LE3 5EA · fosse-tmet.uk · 0116 251 9261
Overview
- Ofsted
- Good
- 2019 framework · inspected Jul 2024
- Key stage 2, 2024/25
- 58%
- 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
- 0.9
- first choices for each place · Reception, September 2026
- Pupils
- 433
- 3 over 430 places · 101%
- Local authority
- Leicester
- Nursery class
- Yes
- Free school meals
- 43.2%
- First language not English
- 60.3%
- 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, 53 families put the school first and 57 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 | 57 | 53 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 45 | 40 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 50 | 42 | 0.8 | 100% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 56 | 44 | 0.8 | 100% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 37 | 37 | 1 | 100% |
Results
In 2024/25, 58% of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of key stage 2, and 7% 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 | |||
| ▼58% | 62% | ||
| ●7% | 8% | ||
| Average scaled score | |||
| ▼102 | 106 | ||
| ●103 | 105 | ||
| ▼102 | 105 | ||
Some years are for the predecessor school (URN 120089)
Ofsted
Fosse Mead Primary Academy was judged Good at its last graded inspection, on 2 July 2024, under Ofsted’s 2019 framework.
- Overall
- Good
- Inspected
- 2 Jul 2024
- 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: Inadequate, graded inspection, Nov 2019
Earlier inspections
Including inspections of the predecessor school (URN 120089), which Ofsted links to this one.
September 2019 to November 2025
- May 2021Monitoring visitEffective action
- Mar 2021Monitoring visitEffective action
Nov 2019Inadequate
Quality of education Requires improvement Behaviour and attitudes Requires improvement Personal development Good Leadership and management Inadequate Early years Requires improvement Safeguarding Not effective Inspection of the predecessor school (URN 120089)
Before September 2019
Oct 2016Good
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 Inspection of the predecessor school (URN 120089)
Sept 2014Requires improvement
Outcomes for pupils Requires improvement Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Requires improvement Leadership and management Good Early years Good Inspection of the predecessor school (URN 120089)
What parents said
94% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (68 replies, to 7 April 2025).
- Recommend
- 94%
- Replies
- 68
- 15% · 7 Apr 2025
based on the 60% who raised concerns
based on the 49% who had a child bullied