Primary school
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This school
URN 138185 · LAESTAB 856/3426 · Source: Get Information about Schools, DfE, OGL v3.0 (record under Visit & links).
Top school 2024/25
Expected standard, RWM: P98.3 of East Midlands primaries (2024/25) · Higher standard, RWM: P94.9 (2024/25) · Ofsted Good (2022).
Top 10% of East Midlands primaries on Expected standard, RWM and top 25% on Higher standard, RWM (2024/25, cohort 30+), and Ofsted Good or better or a report card with nothing below Expected. Separate from the map plaque, which only tiers the school's East Midlands rank by England results (Top 1/3/5/10/25%).
Against East Midlands and Leicester
Track: East Midlands's middle 80% (10th to 90th percentile); L = East Midlands median; L = Leicester median, shown when 10 or more of its schools have a figure; the dot is this school.
East Midlands state schools in Close Knit with a published figure, same phase (primary or secondary) and year; the borough median only when 10 or more of its schools have one. 10th, 50th and 90th percentiles with linear interpolation (PostgreSQL percentile_cont).
Colour only where lower or higher is clearly better (absence: lower): blue = better than the East Midlands median, red = in East Midlands's worst 10%.
Money: Compared only with academies' accounts (AAR), same academic year.
Results
England rank: Key stage 2: % of pupils meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths; ties broken by % at the higher standard. Ranked among 15,057 primaries in England, 2024/25. England's state-funded mainstream schools with a published figure that year (suppressed or missing figures are left out); equal figures share a rank; top % = rank ÷ schools × 100, rounded up.
Top % in England by year: the first and best years are labelled; the dashed line is the middle (top 50%).
Against East Midlands: East Midlands state primaries, same year, cohort 30+, suppressed figures left out. Steps: the score out of 10 against East Midlands (10 = top 10%).
Arrows: change in East Midlands percentile points since 2018/19.
Pupils counted: 40 pupils (2024/25), every measure.
KS2 progress (reading), KS2 progress (writing), KS2 progress (maths): Not published for 2023/24 or 2024/25.
Getting in
Got in = first-choice families offered a place on national offer day ÷ families who put the school first. Putting a school first gives no priority: siblings and distance decide.
First-choice applications not offered a place on national offer day: 100 × (1 − first-preference offers ÷ first preferences). Applications count preferences, not children; places can still be offered from waiting lists after offer day.
Source: DfE, Primary and secondary school applications and offers.
Last distance offered: the straight line from the school to the furthest child offered a place under the distance rule. Not a catchment: it changes every year.
You: the straight line from the centre of Knighton (the area you came from) to the school, not from your door; inside or outside compares it with the latest distance offered.
Inspections
OutstandingGood
Dates are the day each inspection started: Nov 2022 Good · Oct 2008 Outstanding · Nov 2005 Good. Each dot opens its Ofsted report.
Inspection judgements graded Outstanding or Good, and Requires improvement or Inadequate, out of the judgements graded (the overall grade and aggregated judgements are not counted). Counted from Ofsted's grades, never scored from the report text.
Source: Ofsted, state-funded schools inspections and outcomes.
Pupils
Full = pupils on roll ÷ the school's capacity (280 places), from Get Information about Schools.
Pupil profile and absence: DfE school census and pupil absence (Compare school and college performance). Free school meals = eligible at any time in the past 6 years; persistently absent = missed 10% or more of sessions. Withheld = suppressed by DfE.
Workforce
School workforce census, 2025/26. Staff in FTE (full-time equivalent), rounded to 1 decimal on the card. As published: teachers 10, leadership 2, teaching assistants 12.71, support staff incl. TAs 20.12, whole workforce 30.12 (55 people), 11 teachers by headcount.
Other support = support staff incl. TAs minus teaching assistants.
Per adult counts teachers, TAs and other classroom support; excludes admin staff.
- DfE: FTE pupils (January census) ÷ FTE teachers (November census)
- DfE: FTE pupils ÷ FTE teachers, teaching assistants, other school support staff and technicians; administrative, auxiliary and business staff are not counted
- Teachers in leadership posts: head, deputy and assistant heads
Financials
Academy accounts (AAR) · September 2024 to August 2025.
Published total ÷ FTE pupils in the same return, to the nearest pound; income and spend per pupil are left out when the return covers less than 12 months.
CFR (maintained schools, April–March) and AAR (academies, September–August) are different accounts and years: do not compare a maintained school with an academy.
Why some figures are missing
Parent View: Ofsted Parent View: not published for this school (Ofsted lists only schools with 10 or more responses; fewer in the current survey and in the earlier-survey years loaded).
All sources and licences (6)
- Department for Education, Primary and secondary school applications and offers
- Department for Education, Compare school and college performance
- Ofsted, state-funded schools inspections and outcomes
- Department for Education, Academies Accounts Return
- Department for Education, School workforce in England, reporting year 2025
- Department for Education, Get Information about Schools
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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Results · 2024/25
Ranked 547 of 15,057 primaries in England · top 4%
Against East MidlandsArrows: East Midlands rank change since 2018/19
Show KS2 results by year
No exams 2019/20–21Not published 2021/22
Getting in · 2026
By preference
| Choice | Applied | Offered |
|---|---|---|
| 1st | 34 | 34 |
| 2nd | 22 | 1 |
| 3rd | 15 | 0 |
Last distance offered: London only
0.6 km from Knighton · approx.: from the area's centre, not your door
Visit & links
Open days aren't open data: the school site lists them.
Official
Guides
Links open in a new tab. Close Knit counts the click, never what you do there.
Inspections · 2005–2022
- 2005Goodas predecessor
- 2008Outstandingas predecessor
- 2022Good
5 strong areas
- Personal development
- Quality of education
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Early years provision
- Effectiveness of leadership and management
0 weak areas
5 areas graded · safeguarding effective
Pupils · 2024/25
Girls 46.4%Boys 53.6%
97.9% full · 280 places
Parent View
Not published for this school
Workforce · 2025/26
- Classroom teachers 8
- Leadership 2
- Teaching assistants 12.7
- Other support 7.4
Teachers 10 FTE · Whole workforce 30.1 · 55 people
Financials · 2024/25
- +£83,000revenue reserve
- +£38,000in-year balance
Grants £6,152 · self-generated £562 · premises £290 per pupil
Multi-academy trust: ST THOMAS AQUINAS CATHOLIC MULTI ACADEMY TRUST (23 academies) · trust reserve £2,162,000 · Reserves in a multi-academy trust belong to the trust; this academy's figures include the share of central costs the trust gives it