Blaby Thistly Meadow Primary School

Community school·Primary school Leicestershire·LE8 4FE
Composite score
34.7
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#12,416
National rank
#1155
In East Midlands
#179
In Leicestershire
Top 84%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
48%
% achieving higher RWM
3%
Reading average scaled score
105.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
103.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Ofsted judgements

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Quality of education
Outstanding
Behaviour and attitudes
Outstanding
Personal development
Outstanding
Leadership and management
Outstanding
Safeguarding effective?
Yes
Early years provision
Good

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
77%
78 first choices, 60 places
First choices per place
1.30
more first choices than places
Applications naming the school
205
any preference, for 60 places
Applications from another council area
3%
First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.32
00.511.5
1 per place
0.9820220.9820231.0020240.9820251.302026

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

Leicestershire does not publish how far from the school the last child offered a Reception place lived, so there is no cut-off distance to show for Blaby Thistly Meadow Primary School. Ask the school or the council how places were allocated this year.

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

School profile

Age range
4–11
Pupils on roll
306
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
16.0%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
5.2%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
15.0%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
1.3%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
4.2%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
9.0%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
23.9
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£6,873
Typical primary: £6,960

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

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School overview

Blaby Thistly Meadow Primary School is a primary school serving Leicestershire, classified by the DfE as a community school. It has 306 pupils aged 4 to 11 on roll. In the most recent Key Stage 2 SATs, 48% of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths combined — below the national average of 61%. That is down 19.0 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 103 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). 3% reached the higher standard across all three subjects (around 8% do so nationally). Competition for places is real here - 77% of first-choice applicants were offered a Reception place for September 2026 (78 first choices for 60 places). Overall pupil absence was 4.2%. There are about 23.9 pupils per teacher. Blaby Thistly Meadow 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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