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Alderman Richard Hallam Primary School

PrimaryAges 3–11Community

Leicester, LE4 0FQ · Leicester local authority

Leicester’s School Grade B− better than 51% of towns in England

Its letter
39%
of England’s primaries have lower KS2 results
Getting in
101/101
first choices offered a place, 2026 (England: 93%)
How full
881 pupils
96% of its 918 places
Free school meals
15%
15 in 100 pupils eligible · outlined square = England’s schools (25)
The gist

What stands out about Alderman Richard Hallam Primary School

  • Its own letter, C+: Key Stage 2 results better than 39% of England’s primary schools
  • Ofsted report card, September 2026: achievement expected standard, safeguarding met (shown, not graded)
  • Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026 (101 of 101)
  • Homes in its postcode sector (LE4 0) sold for a median £260,000; Leicester’s is £249,950

Results

DfE · Key Stage 2

Reading, writing and maths 59%

Met the expected standard, DfE’s 3-year average 2023–2025 · higher than 39% of England’s 14,979 graded primaries · Leicester avg 61%

0%20%40%60%80%100%England avg 61.6%Alderman Richard Hallam Primary 59%

Each subject, 2025

Met the expected standard; the mark is England’s schools · average scaled score: reading 103, maths 105 (100 = the expected standard)

Reading67%
England’s schools 77%
Writing (teacher assessed)70%
England’s schools 73%
Maths74%
England’s schools 75%
Grammar, punctuation and spelling77%
England’s schools 74%

Disadvantaged pupils, 2025

Met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths: the 18 disadvantaged pupils and the rest, beside England’s schools

Disadvantaged
50%England 48.5%
Not disadvantaged
55%England 69.4%
Reached the higher standard in all three2%
England’s schools 8% · Leicester 5% · 2025

England’s figures are of its graded mainstream state schools, each school counted once; grammar schools are included, which is why the right-hand tail is long. Small cohorts are suppressed.

Getting in

How hard is it to get a place at Alderman Richard Hallam Primary School?

Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026.

101
families put it first for September 2026
106
places offered
100%
of first choices offered a place (England’s primaries: 93%)
First choices and places, by year of entry
20192020202120222023202420252026
Families who put it firstPlaces offered

In every year shown, every family who put it first was offered a place. The council runs the coordinated admissions; each school’s rules (siblings, distance, faith) decide who gets in. DfE doesn’t publish the furthest distance offered, so check the council’s admissions booklet for that. Leicester council sets the admissions rules. Apply through Leicester council’s coordinated admissions.

Demand for primary schools in Leicester, September 2026

Outline = places offered · green = families who put it first · striped = more first choices than places · the 10 most in demand

1.24 per place
75% got their first choice
1.22 per place
82% got their first choice
1.22 per place
82% got their first choice
1.15 per place
86% got their first choice
1.14 per place
81% got their first choice
1.13 per place
85% got their first choice
1.12 per place
85% got their first choice
1.09 per place
92% got their first choice
1.08 per place
92% got their first choice
Alderman Richard Hallam Primary
0.95 per place
100% got their first choice

Leicester and Leicester, side by side

2023–2025

All 72 graded primaries in Leicester. Schools with more pupils on free school meals usually score lower, so a school above the crowd for its free school meals is doing better than its intake predicts. Leicester’s schools are coloured by their letter.

40%49%58%67%76%85%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%Pupils eligible for free school meals →KS2 expected standard →Alderman Richard Hallam
ABCDElsewhere in LeicesterAlderman Richard Hallam Primary
Show as a table
SchoolLetterFree school mealsKS2 expected standard
Queensmead Primary AcademyA+36%86%
St Thomas More Catholic Voluntary AcademyA+7%84%
Whitehall Primary SchoolA+10%83%
Parks Primary SchoolA+41%83%
North Mead Primary AcademyA39%79%
Humberstone Junior SchoolA24%76%
Caldecote Community Primary SchoolA−43%75%
Beaumont Lodge Primary SchoolA−31%74%
Abbey Mead Primary AcademyA−14%74%
Rowlatts Mead Primary AcademyA−30%73%
Falcons Primary SchoolA−20%72%
Kestrel Mead Primary AcademyA−22%72%
Hope Hamilton CofE Primary SchoolA−22%71%
Stokes Wood Primary SchoolB+37%70%
Spinney Hill Primary SchoolB+16%70%
Sparkenhoe Community Primary SchoolB+24%70%
Shenton Primary SchoolB+23%70%
Linden Primary SchoolB+17%69%
Hazel Community Primary SchoolB+27%68%
Krishna Avanti Primary SchoolB+6%68%
Christ the King Catholic Voluntary AcademyB+11%68%
Charnwood Primary SchoolB+25%68%
Evington Valley Primary SchoolB21%67%
St John the Baptist CofE Primary SchoolB19%67%
Uplands Junior L.E.A.D. AcademyB27%67%
Sacred Heart Catholic Voluntary AcademyB21%66%
Overdale Junior SchoolB12%66%
Sandfield Close Primary SchoolB16%65%
Slater Primary SchoolB24%65%
Willowbrook Mead Primary AcademyB35%65%
Saint Patrick's Catholic Voluntary AcademyB−18%63%
Folville Junior SchoolB−32%62%
Dovelands Primary SchoolB−16%62%
Knighton Mead Primary AcademyB−37%62%
Wyvern Primary SchoolB−19%61%
Avenue Primary SchoolC+18%60%
Inglehurst Junior SchoolC+44%59%
Mellor Community Primary SchoolC+20%59%
Alderman Richard Hallam Primary SchoolC+15%59%
St Barnabas CofE Primary SchoolC+17%59%
Heatherbrook Primary AcademyC+34%59%
Highfields Primary SchoolC+25%59%
Thurnby Mead Primary AcademyC+28%58%
Forest Lodge AcademyC+45%58%
Coleman Primary SchoolC22%57%
Braunstone Community Primary SchoolC60%57%
Wolsey House Primary SchoolC35%56%
Medway Community Primary SchoolC33%56%
Merrydale Junior SchoolC32%56%
Tudor Grange Samworth Academy, A church of England SchoolC43%56%
Taylor Road Primary SchoolC32%55%
Herrick Primary SchoolC16%54%
Glebelands Primary SchoolC23%54%
Montrose SchoolC−25%52%
Fosse Mead Primary AcademyC−43%52%
Granby Primary SchoolC−22%51%
Rushey Mead Primary SchoolC−11%51%
Braunstone Frith Primary AcademyC−48%51%
Barley Croft Primary SchoolC−47%50%
St Joseph's Catholic AcademyC−23%49%
Mowmacre Hill Primary SchoolC−56%49%
Bridge Junior SchoolC−21%49%
Catherine Junior SchoolD23%46%
Belgrave St Peter's CofE Primary SchoolD46%46%
Shaftesbury Junior SchoolD36%44%
Eyres Monsell Primary SchoolD35%44%
Rolleston Primary SchoolD47%44%
Marriott Primary SchoolD50%43%
Mayflower Primary SchoolD12%41%
Holy Cross Catholic School, a Voluntary AcademyD46%41%
Scraptoft Valley Primary SchoolD36%40%
Woodstock Primary AcademyD44%40%

Who goes here

DfE school census, January 2025

908 pupils. SEN support is extra help in school for a special educational need; an EHC plan is the council’s legal plan for pupils who need more.

SEN support
10%England 15.3%
EHC plan
1.5%England 3.6%
English as an additional language
51.2%England 18.8%
Free school meals in the last 6 years
15.2%England 26.2%

Girls and boys

Girls 50%Boys 50%
Its letter

Alderman Richard Hallam Primary School’s letter

Its own results against England’s schools, not the town’s School Grade.

Primary: KS2 reading, writing and maths C+Better than 39% of 15,230 schools
How school letters are worked out

Each school’s measure is compared with every graded school in England of the same phase: for primaries, the share of pupils meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (DfE’s three-year average); for secondaries, Attainment 8 and the share with grade 5 or above in English and maths, each turned into a z-score against England’s schools and averaged. The letter comes from the share of those schools it beats, in the same bands as every grade on the site. The same method gives U.S. schools their letters, against their own state.

A+ 95+A 85–94A− 75–84B+ 65–74B 55–64B− 45–54C+ 35–44C 25–34C− 15–24D 5–14D− 0–4

Graded: England’s open mainstream state schools with published results (grammar schools included, which select by test). Not graded: special schools, alternative provision, nurseries, 16–19 colleges, UTCs and studio schools, Welsh schools. Ofsted plays no part.

Ofsted

Ofsted inspections

Shown, not graded: Ofsted is never part of a letter or the School Grade.

Report card, inspection starting September 2026.

SafeguardingMet
AchievementExpected standard
Curriculum and teachingExpected standard
InclusionExpected standard
Attendance and behaviourExpected standard
Personal development and well-beingExpected standard
Leadership and governanceExpected standard
Early yearsExpected standard

Before the report card: Ungraded inspection: School remains Good, March 2022.

The full reports on Ofsted ↗

Living nearby

Living near Alderman Richard Hallam Primary School

For families thinking of moving: what homes cost around the school, and the other schools close by.

Home prices in LE4 0, the school’s postcode sector

Leicester property prices →
£260,000
median sale, 324 sales in 36 months · Leicester £249,950

Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025

£100K£150K£200K£250K£300K2010201520202025LE4 0Leicester
LE4 0Leicester

By type, the 36 months to August 2026

Detached
£310K
Semi-detached
£280K
Terraced
£230K
Flat
£120K
LE4 0Leicester

Homes in LE4 0 sell for a little over Leicester’s typical price. HM Land Registry Price Paid, standard sales. Catchments aren’t published, so the postcode sector stands in for “around the school”.

Schools within 1.6 miles

29 state schools
0.5 mi1 mi1.5 miNDC+DB+CC−C+A+BBB−C−DDC+B+AB−A−C−B−DDBCC+Alderman Richard Hallam Pri…
ABCDNo letterPrimarySecondary / all-through

Leicester, LE4 0FQ

Alderman Richard Hallam Primary School: common questions

Is Alderman Richard Hallam Primary School a good school?

By its published results, below average: its Key Stage 2 results are better than 39% of England’s primary schools (its letter is C+), with 59% of pupils meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, against 62% for England’s schools. Ofsted: a report card in September 2026.

How hard is it to get into Alderman Richard Hallam Primary School?

For September 2026, 101 families put Alderman Richard Hallam Primary School first and all of them were offered a place; 106 places were offered in all.

What is Alderman Richard Hallam Primary School’s Ofsted rating?

Its latest inspection (September 2026) gave a report card: achievement expected standard, safeguarding met. Ofsted stopped giving one-word overall grades in September 2024.

How much do houses cost near Alderman Richard Hallam Primary School?

Homes in its postcode sector, LE4 0, sold for a median £260,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (324 sales).

Sources: DfE Get Information about Schools (16 October 2026), Key Stage 2 performance tables (2023–2025, three-year average) and Key Stage 4 (2025/26, provisional); Ofsted state-funded school inspections as at 30 September 2026. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Also: DfE Key Stage 4 performance, schools data (2023/24 and 2024/25 final, 2025/26 provisional) and Key Stage 2 performance tables 2024/25 by subject; DfE school census, January 2025; DfE school-level applications and offers, September 2019 to 2026 entry; HM Land Registry Price Paid by postcode sector, 2010 to August 2026.

A school’s letter is our own summary of its published results against England’s schools of the same phase; Leicester’s School Grade is a separate grade, built from the results of the schools in and around the town against other towns. Map: © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026 (ONS boundaries). Northern Ireland: Source: NISRA; contains Land & Property Services data and Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland information, © Crown copyright, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Scotland: contains National Records of Scotland data, Registers of Scotland data and SEPA data, © Crown copyright / © SEPA 2025, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.