Croft Church of England Primary School, Leicester
Data last updated 11 Sept 2026
Location
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Key Information
DfE GIASOfsted Rating
Overall
Ofsted Insights
What This School Does Well
Croft provides a warm, welcoming and inclusive environment where your child will feel safe, happy and well supported. The school has strong systems for identifying and meeting individual needs, with staff receiving high-quality training. Attendance is excellent, behaviour is positive, and the school prioritises pupil wellbeing alongside a broad and well-planned curriculum.
Key Strengths
- Strong safeguarding culture with open communication and active concern management
- Excellent attendance rates close to or above national average, with improving trends for disadvantaged pupils
- Positive behaviour and conduct throughout the school, with pupils feeling safe and respected
- Well-planned, ambitious and broad curriculum with clear sequencing across subjects
- Effective support for pupils with additional needs, with leaders identifying needs quickly and accurately
Areas for Improvement
- Pupils' attainment in key stage 2 national tests in reading, writing and mathematics is below ambitions
- Inconsistencies in teaching quality and staff subject knowledge across the school
- Quality of staff-child interactions in early years is not consistently high
- Some pupils struggle to apply the same standard of handwriting, spelling and grammar in wider curriculum subjects as in English lessons
Safeguarding
Safeguarding standards are met - leaders have created an open and positive culture of safeguarding where all legal requirements are fulfilled and pupils feel safe.
Extracurricular Activities
Educational visits to national space centre, range of pupil-chosen clubs and enrichment activities
Croft Church of England Primary School provides a nurturing and inclusive education where pupils feel safe and well supported. However, pupils' attainment in key stage 2 national tests does not yet match leaders' ambitions, particularly in reading, writing and mathematics.
At a Glance
16.5%
Free School Meals
No
Boarding
Yes
Nursery
No
Sixth Form
No
Special Measures
Primary Performance (KS2)
Academic year 2025/26KS2 Results (% meeting expected standard)
Reading has declined from 70% to 63%. Maths has declined from 65% to 50%. Writing has remained stable at around 75%.
Class Sizes
20.0
Avg class size
19.5
Infant (KS1)
20.3
KS2
5
Total classes
2024/25 academic year
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Capacity & Demand
School Occupancy
62%
Available places
109 pupils
175 capacity
66 spare places available
Area Demand Pressure - Leicester
Based on MHCLG housing supply data for Leicester
Admissions Demand - Leicestershire
Places available
8,747
Applications
6,780
Got 1st preference
95.4%
Got preferred school
99.6%
Primary admissions across Leicestershire (2025/26)
Inspection History(14)
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Pupil Demographics
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School Funding
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Pupil Absence2024/25
5.04144%
Overall absence
10.98901%
Persistent absence
91
Enrolments
Absence trend
Source: DfE pupil absence statistics. Persistent absence = pupils missing 10%+ sessions.
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