Ibstock School

Academy converter·Secondary school Ibstock, Leicestershire·LE67 6NE
Composite score
51.9
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#2,299
National rank
#185
In East Midlands
#35
In Leicestershire
Top 72%
Nationally

Performance (KS4 GCSE)

Attainment 8 score
41.5
National avg ≈ 46
Progress 8 score
—
% achieving 9–5 in English & Maths
38%
% achieving 9–4 in English & Maths
59%
% EBacc grade 5+
6%
EBacc average points score
3.51

Ofsted judgements

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Quality of education
Requires improvement
Behaviour and attitudes
Requires improvement
Personal development
Requires improvement
Leadership and management
Requires improvement
Safeguarding effective?
Yes

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
100%
99 first choices, 121 places
First choices per place
0.82
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
252
any preference, for 121 places
First preferences per place, last five years▼ 0.08
00.511.5
1 per place
0.9120220.8920230.9020240.9020250.822026

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

Every child who put Ibstock 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
11–16
Pupils on roll
740
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None
Admissions
Non-Selective

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
21.9%
Typical secondary: 27.5%
% EAL
3.4%
Typical secondary: 12.0%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
15.8%
Typical secondary: 13.7%
% with an EHC plan
3.5%
Typical secondary: 2.9%

Attendance

Overall absence
12.5%
Typical secondary: 8.9%
Persistently absent
32.5%
Typical secondary: 25.7%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
18.5
Typical secondary: 16.7
Spend per pupil
£8,934
Typical secondary: £7,815

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

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School overview

Ibstock School is a secondary school serving Ibstock, Leicestershire, classified by the DfE as a converter academy. It has 740 pupils aged 11 to 16 on roll. The school's average Attainment 8 score in the latest GCSE results was 41.5 — below the national average (national average: 46). Its Attainment 8 score has risen by 2.5 points year on year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it in the lower half of secondary schools nationally.

38% of pupils achieved a grade 5 or above in both English and maths, below the national average of about 45%. 59% achieved a standard pass (grade 4+) in English and maths. Getting a place is straightforward: for the September 2026 intake every family who made Ibstock School their first choice was offered one of its 121 Year 7 places. Overall pupil absence was 12.5%. There are about 18.5 pupils per teacher. Ibstock 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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