Madani Girls' School

Voluntary aided school·Secondary school Leicester·LE5 5LL
Composite score
76.8
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#220
National rank
#10
In East Midlands
#1
In Leicester
Top 7%
Nationally

Performance (KS4 GCSE)

Attainment 8 score
61.4
National avg ≈ 46
Progress 8 score
—
% achieving 9–5 in English & Maths
73%
% achieving 9–4 in English & Maths
82%
% EBacc grade 5+
39%
EBacc average points score
5.50

Ofsted judgements

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Overall effectiveness
Good
Quality of education
Good
Behaviour and attitudes
Outstanding
Personal development
Outstanding
Leadership and management
Outstanding
Safeguarding effective?
Yes

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
44%
202 first choices, 90 places
First choices per place
2.24
more first choices than places
Applications naming the school
343
any preference, for 90 places
Applications from another council area
7%
First preferences per place, last five years▼ 0.16
00.511.522.53
1 per place
2.1920222.2720232.6320242.4020252.242026

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

We do not have a checked cut-off distance for Madani Girls' School yet. Leicester does publish allocation figures and we are working through them council by council — we only show a distance once we have found it in the council’s own document.

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

School profile

Age range
11–16
Pupils on roll
454
Gender
Girls
Religious character
Muslim
Admissions
Non-Selective

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
27.3%
Typical secondary: 27.5%
% EAL
80.0%
Typical secondary: 12.0%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
7.0%
Typical secondary: 13.7%
% with an EHC plan
1.1%
Typical secondary: 2.9%

Attendance

Overall absence
4.7%
Typical secondary: 8.9%
Persistently absent
11.2%
Typical secondary: 25.7%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
17.2
Typical secondary: 16.7
Spend per pupil
£7,360
Typical secondary: £7,815

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

What pupils do next

The share of this school's Year 11 leavers in education, training or employment for at least two terms afterwards.

In education, training or work
84%
61 pupils tracked
Stayed in education
80%
Apprenticeship
2%
Employment
2%

DfE, KS4 destination measures.

Nearby secondary schools

Location

Madani Girls' School at a glance

Located in Leicester, Madani Girls' School is a girls' secondary school, classified by the DfE as a voluntary aided school with a Muslim religious character. The school educates roughly 454 pupils aged 11 to 16. Ofsted judged the school to be 'Good' at its most recent inspection. The school's average Attainment 8 score in the latest GCSE results was 61.4 — well above the national average (national average: 46). Performance is little changed year on year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it among the top 7% of secondary schools in England.

73% of pupils achieved a grade 5 or above in both English and maths, well above the national average of about 45%. 82% achieved a standard pass (grade 4+) in English and maths. Madani Girls' School is oversubscribed: about 4 in 10 of the families who made it their first choice were offered a Year 7 place for September 2026, with 202 first choices for 90 places. After Year 11, 84% of its leavers went on to education, an apprenticeship or work that they stayed in for at least two terms. Overall pupil absence was 4.7%. There are about 17.2 pupils per teacher. When comparing schools, it is still worth visiting in person to see whether the atmosphere and approach suit your child. 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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