Booth Wood Academy, Loughborough

Ofsted's report card from its 16 June 2026 inspection grades Booth Wood Academy on 7 areas: 6 strong standard and 1 expected standard. Report cards replaced single-word judgements in November 2025, on a five-point scale from exceptional to urgent improvement.

Achievement - Strong standard. "Pupils achieve well across the school."

Attendance and behaviour - Strong standard. "Attendance is strong."

Curriculum and teaching - Strong standard. "Leaders provide a clear and well-organised curriculum."

Inclusion - Strong standard. "The school meets the needs of a wide range of pupils well."

Leadership and governance - Strong standard. "Leaders provide clear direction and maintain a strong focus on improving the school."

Personal development and wellbeing - Strong standard. "Leaders provide a clear and well-planned programme for personal development and wellbeing."

Early years - Expected standard. "Leaders provide clear direction for the early years."

Safeguarding standards were met.

Ofsted's next steps for the school: "Leaders should continue to embed the use of assessment in the early years so that learning opportunities across the provision support more children to reach a good level of development"; "Leaders should continue to rigorously monitor the impact of recent curriculum refinements so that all pupils reach the highest possible standards".

Booth Wood Academy has no published results of its own yet. Before it took its current form in 2024, as Booth Wood Primary School (URN 119973), 97% of its Year 6 pupils reached the expected standard in reading and 100% in maths in the 2025 Key Stage 2 assessments.

For September 2026 entry, 29 families put Booth Wood Academy as their first choice and 91 named it as one of their preferences, for 29 places offered. That is one first choice for every place. Every family who put it first was offered a place there for 2026 entry.

The nearest other state primary schools to Booth Wood Academy are Thorpe Acre Junior School (0.4 miles, Good, 73% reading, 71% maths); Thorpe Acre Infant School (0.4 miles, Good); Holywell Primary School (0.7 miles, Good, 90% reading, 90% maths); and Mountfields Lodge School (1 mile, Good, 66% reading, 63% maths).

Booth Wood Academy is one of 36 schools run by The David Ross Education Trust, an academy trust.

Across the trust's primary schools, 72% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths in 2024/25.

14.3% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, well below the average state school (25%), according to the 2026 school census.

The nearest tram or metro stop is Loughborough Central (Great Central Railway), about 1.9 miles away in a straight line.

20 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Shops (adjacent), 100 metres away.

In August 2026, police recorded 119 crimes within a mile of the school, most often violence and sexual offences, anti-social behaviour and criminal damage and arson. That is well above the typical figure around schools in Leicestershire (58), as is usual near a town centre.

Booth Wood Academy recorded no suspensions or permanent exclusions in 2024/25.

The secondary schools closest to Booth Wood Academy are Charnwood College (0.4 miles), De Lisle College Loughborough Leicestershire (0.4 miles), Limehurst Academy (1.6 miles) and Woodbrook Vale School (1.6 miles).