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Badgerbrook Primary School
Primary · Mixed · Ages 4–11 · Academy
Badger Drive, Whetstone, Leicester LE8 6ZW · badgerbrook.org · 0116 275 2353
Overview
- Ofsted
- Report card
- Nov 2025 · graded by area, with no overall grade
- Key stage 2, 2024/25
- 76%
- reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths. Leicestershire 63%, England 62%
- Demand for places
- 1.0
- first choices for each place · Reception, September 2026
- Pupils
- 398
- 95% of 420 places
- Local authority
- Leicestershire
- Nursery class
- No
- Free school meals
- 9.8%
- First language not English
- 6%
- School census 2025/26
The official school record (Department for Education)
Admissions
For Reception in September 2026, 56 families put the school first and 58 places were offered; 98% 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 | 58 | 56 | 1 | 98% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 51 | 51 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 57 | 56 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 59 | 60 | 1▲ | 98% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 60 | 70 | 1.2▲ | 84% |
Results
In 2024/25, 76% of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of key stage 2, and 7% the higher standard. Across Leicestershire it was 63%, and across England 62%.
Expected standard reading, writing and maths
| 2024/25 | Trend | School | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reading, writing and maths | |||
| ▲76% | 62% | ||
| ●7% | 8% | ||
| Average scaled score | |||
| ●107 | 106 | ||
| ●106 | 105 | ||
| ●106 | 105 | ||
Some years are for the predecessor school (URN 119978)
Ofsted
Ofsted inspected Badgerbrook Primary School on 11 November 2025 and published a report card: each area has its own grade, and there is no overall grade.
- Inclusion: Strong standard
- Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard
- Achievement: Expected standard
- Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard
- Personal development and well-being: Expected standard
- Early years: Needs attention
- Leadership and governance: Expected standard
- Inspected
- 11 Nov 2025
- Report card
- Safeguarding
- Met
Graded areas
| Inclusion | Strong standard |
|---|---|
| Curriculum and teaching | Expected standard |
| Achievement | Expected standard |
| Attendance and behaviour | Strong standard |
| Personal development and well-being | Expected standard |
| Early years | Needs attention |
| Leadership and governance | Expected standard |
Previously: Requires improvement, graded inspection, Jan 2024
Earlier inspections
Including inspections of the predecessor school (URN 119978), which Ofsted links to this one.
September 2019 to November 2025
Jan 2024Requires improvement
Quality of education Requires improvement Behaviour and attitudes Requires improvement Personal development Requires improvement Leadership and management Requires improvement Early years Requires improvement Safeguarding Effective Inspection of the predecessor school (URN 119978)
Before September 2019
Sept 2011Outstanding
Outcomes for pupils Outstanding Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Outstanding Leadership and management Outstanding Early years Good Inspection of the predecessor school (URN 119978)
Oct 2006Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Leadership and management Good Early years Good Inspection of the predecessor school (URN 119978)
What parents said
94% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (139 replies, to 6 April 2026).
- Recommend
- 94%
- Positive
- 91%
- Replies
- 139
- 34% · 6 Apr 2026
based on the 76% who raised concerns
based on 22 parents (16%) whose child was bullied
based on 24 parents (17%) with SEND