Fairfield Community Primary School

Academy converter·Primary school Wigston, Leicestershire·LE18 4WA
Composite score
40.8
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National rank
#939
In East Midlands
#147
In Leicestershire
Top 72%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
52%
% achieving higher RWM
6%
Reading average scaled score
103.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
103.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Ofsted judgements

New framework · Last inspection: 27/01/2026 · Read full report ↗

Achievement
Expected standard
Leadership and governance
Expected standard
Curriculum and teaching
Expected standard
Attendance and behaviour
Expected standard
Personal development and wellbeing
Expected standard
Inclusion
Expected standard
Safeguarding standards
Met
Early years
Expected standard

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
90%
30 first choices, 29 places
First choices per place
1.03
more first choices than places
Applications naming the school
89
any preference, for 29 places
Applications from another council area
14%
First preferences per place, last five years▶ 0.00
00.511.5
1 per place
1.0020221.0020231.0020241.0320251.032026

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 Fairfield Community 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
2–11
Pupils on roll
207
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
18.8%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
14.0%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
11.6%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
3.4%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
5.2%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
10.5%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
22.6
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£6,787
Typical primary: £6,960

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

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About Fairfield Community Primary School

Fairfield Community Primary School is a primary school in Wigston, Leicestershire, classified by the DfE as a converter academy. Around 207 pupils aged 2 to 11 attend the school. 52% of its pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of Key Stage 2, below the national average (national figure: 61%). The proportion reaching the expected standard has fallen by 10.0 percentage points compared with 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 103 in reading and 103 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). 6% reached the higher standard across all three subjects (around 8% do so nationally). Fairfield Community Primary School is oversubscribed: about 9 in 10 of the families who made it their first choice were offered a Reception place for September 2026, with 30 first choices for 29 places. Overall pupil absence was 5.2%. There are about 22.6 pupils per teacher. Fairfield 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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