Ellistown Community Primary School

Community school·Primary school Coalville, Leicestershire·LE67 1EN
Composite score
45.5
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#8,952
National rank
#758
In East Midlands
#115
In Leicestershire
Top 61%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
70%
% achieving higher RWM
0%
Reading average scaled score
105.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
107.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
100%
22 first choices, 24 places
First choices per place
0.92
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
90
any preference, for 24 places
Applications from another council area
1%
First preferences per place, last five years▼ 0.19
00.511.52
1 per place
0.8620221.5020230.9220241.1020250.922026

Red dashed line = one first choice per place. How to read this

Every child who put Ellistown Community Primary School first was offered a place in 2026, so no distance cut-off applied: living further away did not cost a place that year.

Application figures: DfE, school level applications and offers (2026 intake).

School profile

Age range
4–11
Pupils on roll
203
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
14.8%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
3.4%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
13.3%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
2.5%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
5.4%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
15.8%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
23.0
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£6,723
Typical primary: £6,960

“Typical” = the median primary school in England. What this means

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Location

School overview

Ellistown Community Primary School is a primary school serving Coalville, Leicestershire, classified by the DfE as a community school. It has 203 pupils aged 4 to 11 on roll. In the most recent Key Stage 2 SATs, 70% of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths combined — above the national average of 61%. That marks an improvement of 15.0 percentage points in the proportion reaching the expected standard on the previous year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it in the lower half of primary schools nationally.

Pupils achieved an average scaled score of 105 in reading and 107 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). Ellistown Community Primary School was not oversubscribed for September 2026: all 22 families who put it first were offered a place. Overall pupil absence was 5.4%. There are about 23.0 pupils per teacher. Ellistown Community Primary School does not currently have a recent graded Ofsted judgement on record (often the case for newer or recently converted schools), so it is worth asking when its next inspection is expected. This overview is generated automatically from the latest published DfE performance tables and Ofsted data; figures are rounded, and you can check the originals via the official links above.

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