De Lisle College Loughborough Leicestershire

Academy converter·Secondary school Loughborough, Leicestershire·LE11 4SQ
Composite score
68.9
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#456
National rank
#29
In East Midlands
#4
In Leicestershire
Top 14%
Nationally

Performance (KS4 GCSE)

Attainment 8 score
55.1
National avg ≈ 46
Progress 8 score
—
% achieving 9–5 in English & Maths
60%
% achieving 9–4 in English & Maths
76%
% EBacc grade 5+
32%
EBacc average points score
5.05

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
76%
262 first choices, 211 places
First choices per place
1.24
more first choices than places
Applications naming the school
603
any preference, for 211 places
Applications from another council area
1%
First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.24
00.511.5
1 per place
0.9420220.9220230.8920241.0020251.242026

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 Year 7 place lived, so there is no cut-off distance to show for De Lisle College Loughborough Leicestershire. 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
11–18
Pupils on roll
1,340
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
Roman Catholic
Admissions
Non-Selective

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
15.7%
Typical secondary: 27.5%
% EAL
24.3%
Typical secondary: 12.0%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
10.2%
Typical secondary: 13.7%
% with an EHC plan
1.5%
Typical secondary: 2.9%

Attendance

Overall absence
7.3%
Typical secondary: 8.9%
Persistently absent
17.2%
Typical secondary: 25.7%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
20.3
Typical secondary: 16.7
Spend per pupil
£6,291
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
94%
217 pupils tracked
Stayed in education
90%
Apprenticeship
3%
Employment
2%

DfE, KS4 destination measures.

Nearby secondary schools

Location

School overview

De Lisle College Loughborough Leicestershire is a secondary school serving Loughborough, Leicestershire, classified by the DfE as a converter academy with a Roman Catholic religious character. It has 1,340 pupils aged 11 to 18 on roll. In the most recent GCSE results, pupils achieved an average Attainment 8 score of 55.1, above the national average of 46. That marks an improvement of 1.0 points in its Attainment 8 score on the previous year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it among the top 14% of secondary schools in England.

60% of pupils achieved a grade 5 or above in both English and maths, well above the national average of about 45%. 76% achieved a standard pass (grade 4+) in English and maths. Competition for places is real here - 76% of first-choice applicants were offered a Year 7 place for September 2026 (262 first choices for 211 places). After Year 11, 94% of its leavers went on to education, an apprenticeship or work that they stayed in for at least two terms. Overall pupil absence was 7.3%. There are about 20.3 pupils per teacher. De Lisle College Loughborough Leicestershire 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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