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Hazel Community Primary School

Community school in Leicester, LE2 7JN, taking ages 4 to 11, 410 on roll.

Report card Ofsted, Jan 2026
0.62 mi Admitted from, latest published year
98% Full
65.0% Met the expected standard, 2024/25

Will an address get in?

In the latest published round, the furthest child offered a place lived 0.62 miles away.

Applying for September 2027? Primary applications close 15 January 2027; offers on 16 April 2027.

The circle is 0.62 miles, the distance the school admitted from in the latest published year.

Hazel Community Primary School: 0.62 miles Castle Mead Academy: 0.69 miles, published by Leicester

This is not a catchment area. 0.62 miles was last year's outcome, not a boundary and not a promise.
How to read this

Most English schools do not have a catchment area. When Hazel Community Primary School is oversubscribed, places go outward from the school until they run out, so the distance moves each year with how many families applied and where they lived.

Distances are measured from the postcode's centre, not a front door; a postcode covers a few houses. Siblings, looked-after children come before distance, so a school can fill before distance counts at all.

Real admission areas are not circular: the circle is the distance, not a boundary. The labels on the map are postcode districts whose centre falls inside both circles; each opens the district's guide.

The address on the closing date is the one the council uses. How admissions work.

Source: Leicester, published admission distances

Where Hazel Community Primary School and Castle Mead Academy are both in reach

Both distances are drawn on the map above. Castle Mead Academy admitted from 0.69 miles in the latest published year, published by Leicester. Its own page has the rest of its figures.

The postcode districts whose centre falls inside both published distances, cheapest first by the median of real sales around each district's centre. The cheapest is LE21 at £185,000. A district is wide, so check the address itself, not the list.

DistrictAreaFrom Hazel Community Primary SchoolFrom Castle Mead AcademyMedian sold price
LE21 Leicester 0.3 mi 0.7 mi £185,000 59 sales

Sold prices from HM Land Registry, via each district's area guide. Distances measured from each district's centre to each school's point on the Department for Education register.

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If the answer is no, you can appeal. In Leicester, 25 of 350 secondary appeals succeeded in 2025 (7.1%; England 19.9%), counted for all the council's schools together. How every council compares.

Other schools nearby with a published distance

The closest schools to Hazel Community Primary School that also have a council-published admission distance, nearest first.

SchoolPhaseAdmitted fromAway
King Richard III Infant and Nursery School Both in reach Primary 0.34 mi 0.8 mi
Knighton Mead Primary Academy Both in reach Primary 0.24 mi 0.8 mi
Sparkenhoe Community Primary School Both in reach Primary 0.38 mi 0.9 mi
Avenue Primary School Both in reach Primary 2.51 mi 1.0 mi
Castle Mead Academy Both in reach Secondary 0.69 mi 1.0 mi
Imperial Avenue Infant School Both in reach Primary 0.8 mi 1.0 mi

The distance as a picture

Hazel Community Primary School catchment area map: the 0.62 mile admission distance and the postcode districts inside it
Drawn to scale from the published figure, with the districts whose centre falls inside. Save the picture, or share this page and this is the card that appears.

What kind of school this is

Religious characterNo religious character
Sixth formDoes not have a sixth form
How full 410 pupils in 420 places (98% full)
Local authorityLeicester

Department for Education register (GIAS).

How the school is doing

Ofsted Report card, January 2026: 7 areas strong or exceptional
Report card
  • Safeguarding Met
  • Inclusion Strong standard
  • Curriculum and teaching Strong standard
  • Achievement Strong standard
  • Attendance and behaviour Strong standard
  • Personal development and wellbeing Strong standard
  • Early years Strong standard
  • Post-16 provision Not applicable
  • Leadership and governance Strong standard
Ofsted stopped giving schools a single overall grade in 2024; from November 2025 each area is judged on this five-point scale.
Meeting the expected standard 65.0% in reading, writing and maths (2024/25)
YearMeeting the expected standard
2024/25 65.0%
2023/24 67.0%
2022/23 73.0%

Ofsted, and the Department for Education's published performance data.

Who goes to Hazel Community Primary School

Girls and boys50.0% girls, 50.0% boys
English as an additional language84.4% of pupils
Free school meals26.8% of pupils eligible

DfE school census, most recent published year.

What it costs to live within reach of Hazel Community Primary School

Cheapest district inside the 0.62 miles: LE87, median £115,000. Dearest: LE21, £185,000.

DistrictAreaFrom the schoolMedian sold price
LE87 Leicester 0.5 mi £115,000 55 sales
LE21 Leicester 0.3 mi £185,000 59 sales
How to read this

The postcode districts whose centre falls inside the 0.62 miles the school admitted from in the latest published year, cheapest first, by the median of real sales around each district's centre. A district is wide, so check the address itself, not the list. Districts without enough recorded sales to rank are not shown.

How this compares across England: what a tight gate costs, school by school.

Source: HM Land Registry sold prices, via each district's area guide

Getting to Hazel Community Primary School by bus

Best-served stop: Sawday Street, 0.1 mi away, with 21.9 buses an hour on weekday daytimes; first bus 05:59, last 23:52.

Every stop within 600 m
StopFrom the schoolWeekday daytime, an hourEveningSundayRoutes
Burnmoor Street165 yd3.81.50.720, X6, X84
Burnmoor Street168 yd2.80.50.020, X84
Sawday Street0.1 mi21.97.86.848, 88A, 88, 84, 85, 20

These are scheduled departures, not buses observed running. Two stops on opposite sides of a road are two rows.

Source: operators' timetables on the Bus Open Data Service (Department for Transport), week of 8 Sep 2026

The fee-paying alternative

Weighing Hazel Community Primary School against the independent sector? Every fee-paying school around LE2: ages, selection, and how full each one is → What it costs to live at LE2 7JN, by the school: council tax, energy, prices, rent, stamp duty →

Checking the house as well as the school

The full report checks one address against every nearby school, with sold prices, flood risk and crime.

Common questions

What is the catchment area for Hazel Community Primary School?

Hazel Community Primary School does not have one in the sense most people mean. Like most English schools, an oversubscribed year offers places outward from the school until they run out. The nearest thing to an answer: the furthest child admitted in the latest published year lived 0.62 miles away, per Leicester.

How close do I need to live to get a place at Hazel Community Primary School?

Nobody can say in advance, and anyone who does is guessing. 0.62 miles was enough in the latest published year, and at 98% full the school has little slack. The distance moves every year with the number of applications, so treat last year's figure as evidence, not a promise.

Does buying a house near Hazel Community Primary School guarantee a place?

No. Admission criteria usually put looked-after children, siblings ahead of distance, so places can be filled before distance is reached. Councils also check that the address is genuinely where the child lives.

Every Leicester school's distance

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