Abbey Mead Primary Academy
Leicester, LE4 5HH · Leicester local authority
Leicester’s School Grade B− better than 51% of towns in England
What stands out about Abbey Mead Primary Academy
- Its own letter, A−: Key Stage 2 results better than 81% of England’s primary schools
- 74% meet the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 12 points above England’s schools
- 14% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (fewer than England’s 25%)
- Ofsted: Outstanding, March 2024 (shown, not graded)
- Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026 (81 of 81)
- Homes in its postcode sector (LE4 5) sold for a median £245,000; Leicester’s is £249,950
Results
DfE · Key Stage 2Reading, writing and maths 74%
Met the expected standard, DfE’s 3-year average 2023–2025 · higher than 81% of England’s 14,979 graded primaries · Leicester avg 61%
Each subject, 2025
Met the expected standard; the mark is England’s schools · average scaled score: reading 106, maths 108 (100 = the expected standard)
Disadvantaged pupils, 2025
Met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths: the 16 disadvantaged pupils and the rest, beside England’s schools
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.
How hard is it to get a place at Abbey Mead Primary Academy?
Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026.
Years when some first choices missed out: 2019 (3), 2020 (10), 2021 (25), 2023 (7), 2025 (6). 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. The Mead Educational Trust sets the admissions rules. Apply through Leicester council’s coordinated admissions.
Outline = places offered · green = families who put it first · striped = more first choices than places · the 10 most in demand
100% got their first choice
Leicester and Leicester, side by side
2023–2025All 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.
Show as a table
| School | Letter | Free school meals | KS2 expected standard |
|---|---|---|---|
| Queensmead Primary Academy | A+ | 36% | 86% |
| St Thomas More Catholic Voluntary Academy | A+ | 7% | 84% |
| Whitehall Primary School | A+ | 10% | 83% |
| Parks Primary School | A+ | 41% | 83% |
| North Mead Primary Academy | A | 39% | 79% |
| Humberstone Junior School | A | 24% | 76% |
| Caldecote Community Primary School | A− | 43% | 75% |
| Beaumont Lodge Primary School | A− | 31% | 74% |
| Abbey Mead Primary Academy | A− | 14% | 74% |
| Rowlatts Mead Primary Academy | A− | 30% | 73% |
| Falcons Primary School | A− | 20% | 72% |
| Kestrel Mead Primary Academy | A− | 22% | 72% |
| Hope Hamilton CofE Primary School | A− | 22% | 71% |
| Stokes Wood Primary School | B+ | 37% | 70% |
| Spinney Hill Primary School | B+ | 16% | 70% |
| Sparkenhoe Community Primary School | B+ | 24% | 70% |
| Shenton Primary School | B+ | 23% | 70% |
| Linden Primary School | B+ | 17% | 69% |
| Hazel Community Primary School | B+ | 27% | 68% |
| Krishna Avanti Primary School | B+ | 6% | 68% |
| Christ the King Catholic Voluntary Academy | B+ | 11% | 68% |
| Charnwood Primary School | B+ | 25% | 68% |
| Evington Valley Primary School | B | 21% | 67% |
| St John the Baptist CofE Primary School | B | 19% | 67% |
| Uplands Junior L.E.A.D. Academy | B | 27% | 67% |
| Sacred Heart Catholic Voluntary Academy | B | 21% | 66% |
| Overdale Junior School | B | 12% | 66% |
| Sandfield Close Primary School | B | 16% | 65% |
| Slater Primary School | B | 24% | 65% |
| Willowbrook Mead Primary Academy | B | 35% | 65% |
| Saint Patrick's Catholic Voluntary Academy | B− | 18% | 63% |
| Folville Junior School | B− | 32% | 62% |
| Dovelands Primary School | B− | 16% | 62% |
| Knighton Mead Primary Academy | B− | 37% | 62% |
| Wyvern Primary School | B− | 19% | 61% |
| Avenue Primary School | C+ | 18% | 60% |
| Inglehurst Junior School | C+ | 44% | 59% |
| Mellor Community Primary School | C+ | 20% | 59% |
| Alderman Richard Hallam Primary School | C+ | 15% | 59% |
| St Barnabas CofE Primary School | C+ | 17% | 59% |
| Heatherbrook Primary Academy | C+ | 34% | 59% |
| Highfields Primary School | C+ | 25% | 59% |
| Thurnby Mead Primary Academy | C+ | 28% | 58% |
| Forest Lodge Academy | C+ | 45% | 58% |
| Coleman Primary School | C | 22% | 57% |
| Braunstone Community Primary School | C | 60% | 57% |
| Wolsey House Primary School | C | 35% | 56% |
| Medway Community Primary School | C | 33% | 56% |
| Merrydale Junior School | C | 32% | 56% |
| Tudor Grange Samworth Academy, A church of England School | C | 43% | 56% |
| Taylor Road Primary School | C | 32% | 55% |
| Herrick Primary School | C | 16% | 54% |
| Glebelands Primary School | C | 23% | 54% |
| Montrose School | C− | 25% | 52% |
| Fosse Mead Primary Academy | C− | 43% | 52% |
| Granby Primary School | C− | 22% | 51% |
| Rushey Mead Primary School | C− | 11% | 51% |
| Braunstone Frith Primary Academy | C− | 48% | 51% |
| Barley Croft Primary School | C− | 47% | 50% |
| St Joseph's Catholic Academy | C− | 23% | 49% |
| Mowmacre Hill Primary School | C− | 56% | 49% |
| Bridge Junior School | C− | 21% | 49% |
| Catherine Junior School | D | 23% | 46% |
| Belgrave St Peter's CofE Primary School | D | 46% | 46% |
| Shaftesbury Junior School | D | 36% | 44% |
| Eyres Monsell Primary School | D | 35% | 44% |
| Rolleston Primary School | D | 47% | 44% |
| Marriott Primary School | D | 50% | 43% |
| Mayflower Primary School | D | 12% | 41% |
| Holy Cross Catholic School, a Voluntary Academy | D | 46% | 41% |
| Scraptoft Valley Primary School | D | 36% | 40% |
| Woodstock Primary Academy | D | 44% | 40% |
Who goes here
DfE school census, January 2025714 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.
Girls and boys
Abbey Mead Primary Academy’s letter
Its own results against England’s schools, not the town’s School Grade.
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.
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 inspections
Shown, not graded: Ofsted is never part of a letter or the School Grade.
Graded inspection: Outstanding, March 2024.
Living near Abbey Mead Primary Academy
For families thinking of moving: what homes cost around the school, and the other schools close by.
Home prices in LE4 5, the school’s postcode sector
Leicester property prices →Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025
By type, the 36 months to August 2026
Homes in LE4 5 sell for about the same as 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
38 state schoolsLocation
Directions ↗Leicester, LE4 5HH
Abbey Mead Primary Academy: common questions
Is Abbey Mead Primary Academy a good school?
By its published results, well above average: its Key Stage 2 results are better than 81% of England’s primary schools (its letter is A−), with 74% of pupils meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, against 62% for England’s schools. Ofsted: Outstanding, March 2024.
How hard is it to get into Abbey Mead Primary Academy?
For September 2026, 81 families put Abbey Mead Primary Academy first and all of them were offered a place; 82 places were offered in all.
What is Abbey Mead Primary Academy’s Ofsted rating?
Its latest inspection outcome is Outstanding (March 2024).
How much do houses cost near Abbey Mead Primary Academy?
Homes in its postcode sector, LE4 5, sold for a median £245,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (145 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.
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