Stafford Leys Community Primary School, Leicester

Ofsted's report card from its 13 January 2026 inspection grades Stafford Leys Community Primary School on 7 areas: 5 strong standard and 2 expected standard. Report cards replaced single-word judgements in November 2025, on a five-point scale from exceptional to urgent improvement.

Attendance and behaviour - Strong standard. "Attendance is a sustained strength."

Curriculum and teaching - Strong standard. "Leaders have designed an ambitious and coherently sequenced curriculum that enables pupils to build knowledge securely over time."

Early years - Strong standard. "Children in the early years benefit from an ambitious and coherently sequenced curriculum that gives them secure foundations for learning."

Inclusion - Strong standard. "Leaders and staff at Stafford Leys have established a consistently inclusive culture where pupils' individual needs are understood well."

Leadership and governance - Strong standard. "Leaders have established a clear and ambitious vision that places pupils' learning and wellbeing at the centre of their work."

Achievement - Expected standard. "Pupils achieve well overall, and leaders' recent work means that achievement is increasingly consistent across many subjects."

Personal development and wellbeing - Expected standard. "Pupils benefit from a well-structured personal development programme that supports their confidence, wellbeing and sense of responsibility."

Safeguarding standards were met.

Ofsted's next steps for the school: "• Leaders should continue to strengthen the interventions that disadvantaged pupils and pupils with low prior attainment receive, to ensure that these groups of pupils make consistently secure progress in all subjects, including reading".

In 2025, 79% of Year 6 pupils at Stafford Leys Community Primary School reached the expected standard in reading and 83% in maths. At the average state primary the figures were 78% and 77% in Leicestershire and 77% and 75% across England.

Results were similar in 2024 (79% in reading, 87% in maths).

For September 2026 entry, 44 families put Stafford Leys Community Primary School as their first choice and 169 named it as one of their preferences, for 51 places offered. It had fewer first-choice applications than places. Every family who put it first was offered a place there for 2026 entry.

The nearest other state primary schools to Stafford Leys Community Primary School are New Lubbesthorpe Primary School (0.6 miles, Good, 65% reading, 81% maths); Fossebrook Primary School (0.6 miles, Good, 87% reading, 90% maths); Kirby Muxloe Primary School (1 mile, Good, 90% reading, 90% maths); and Kingsway Primary School (1.4 miles, Good, 64% reading, 60% maths).

Stafford Leys Community Primary School's 2025 results were higher than 2 of these 4 schools.

Stafford Leys Community Primary School is one of 19 schools run by Bradgate Education Partnership, an academy trust.

Across the trust's primary schools, 63% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths in 2024/25.

72 parents answered Ofsted's Parent View survey about Stafford Leys Community Primary School (as of April 2026): 89% would recommend the school, 92% say their child is happy there and 46% of those with a view say bullying is dealt with well.

The strongest agreement was that their child feels safe (94%); the weakest, that the school deals with bullying well (among parents with a view) (46%).

11.2% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, well below the average state school (25%), according to the 2026 school census.

In 2026, 55 pupils (9.1%) received SEN support and 13 (2.1%) had an education, health and care plan, against 16.2% and 4.6% at the average state school. The most common need among them is a moderate learning difficulty.

There is no railway, tram or Underground station within about three miles of Stafford Leys Community Primary School.

9 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Boyers Walk (adjacent), 90 metres away.

Measured by the 2025 English Indices of Deprivation, the neighbourhood Stafford Leys Community Primary School stands in is among the 20% least deprived neighbourhoods in England. On income deprivation affecting children it is in the 7th decile, where the 1st is the most deprived. This describes where the school is, not where its pupils live.

In August 2026, police recorded 118 crimes within a mile of the school, most often violence and sexual offences, burglary and anti-social behaviour. That is well above the typical figure around schools in Leicestershire (58), as is usual near a town centre.

In 2024/25, Stafford Leys Community Primary School issued 10 suspensions, 1.7 for every 100 pupils (the average state school: 6.3), and no permanent exclusions.