How far do you need to live from a school in Leicester to get a place?

It depends on the school. Across the 22 Leicester schools with a published figure, the last child admitted lived a median of 0.69 miles away; the tightest was Knighton Mead Primary Academy at 0.24 miles. The distance moves every year with demand.

Do Leicester schools have catchment areas?

Most English schools do not. When a school is oversubscribed, places are offered outward from the school until they run out, so what exists is how far the last admitted child lived, which the council publishes after each round. That is the figure on this page.

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How far Leicester schools admitted from

For every oversubscribed school, Leicester publishes how far away the last child offered a place lived. This is that figure for 22 schools, tightest first. A short distance means a school that fills up close to its gates; a long one means places went further afield.

22schools with a published figure

0.69 mithe middle school's distance

16filled within a mile

The tightest is Knighton Mead Primary Academy at 0.24 miles in varies; the most far-reaching, Avenue Primary School, admitted from 2.51 miles.

Primary schools

School	Ofsted	Admitted from	Round	How full
Knighton Mead Primary Academy Leicester	No current grade	0.24 mi	varies	123%
King Richard III Infant and Nursery School Leicester	Requires improvement	0.34 mi	varies	150%
Sparkenhoe Community Primary School Leicester	Good	0.38 mi	varies	94%
Evington Valley Primary School Leicester	No current grade	0.39 mi	varies	108%
Highfields Primary School Leicester	No current grade	0.49 mi	varies	91%
Abbey Mead Primary Academy Leicester	Outstanding	0.53 mi	varies	97%
Sandfield Close Primary School Leicester	No current grade	0.53 mi	varies	99%
Hazel Community Primary School Leicester	Good	0.62 mi	varies	98%
Granby Primary School Leicester	Good	0.63 mi	varies	92%
Thurnby Mead Primary Academy Leicester	No current grade	0.71 mi	varies	118%
Montrose School Leicester	No current grade	0.76 mi	varies	108%
Imperial Avenue Infant School Leicester	No current grade	0.8 mi	varies	93%
Rowlatts Mead Primary Academy Leicester	Good	1.27 mi	varies	139%
Barley Croft Primary School Leicester	No current grade	1.98 mi	varies	98%
Overdale Infant School Leicester	No current grade	2.16 mi	varies	95%
Parks Primary School Leicester	No current grade	2.26 mi	varies	97%
Avenue Primary School Leicester	No current grade	2.51 mi	varies	99%

Secondary schools

School	Ofsted	Admitted from	Round	How full
Moat Community College Leicester	No current grade	0.52 mi	varies	104%
Soar Valley College Leicester	No current grade	0.55 mi	varies	100%
Castle Mead Academy Leicester	Outstanding	0.69 mi	varies	102%
Crown Hills Community College Leicester	No current grade	0.98 mi	varies	119%
Rushey Mead Academy Leicester	Outstanding	1.29 mi	varies	111%

Reading the numbers

These are not catchment areas: most English schools have none. Each figure is the distance from the school to the home of the furthest child who was offered a place under the distance criterion in that round, as Leicester measures it, which is usually a straight line from a fixed point at the home to one at the school. Looked-after children, siblings and, at faith schools, faith criteria come before distance, so a school can fill before distance is reached at all. The figure moves every year with the number of applications. How the whole process works →

Checking an address against these

Each school's page has a checker that measures a postcode against that school's distance. The full property report measures every nearby school at once, alongside sold prices, flood risk and the rest of the house.

Admission distances published by Leicester. School details and grades from the Department for Education's register and Ofsted. If a figure looks wrong, tell us and it goes on the accuracy log.