Madani Boys School

Voluntary aided school·Secondary school Leicester·LE5 5LL
Composite score
65.3
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National rank
#46
In East Midlands
#5
In Leicester
Top 21%
Nationally

Performance (KS4 GCSE)

Attainment 8 score
52.2
National avg ≈ 46
Progress 8 score
—
% achieving 9–5 in English & Maths
61%
% achieving 9–4 in English & Maths
81%
% EBacc grade 5+
11%
EBacc average points score
4.48

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
354
any preference, for 90 places
Applications from another council area
4%
First preferences per place, last five years▼ 0.22
00.511.522.53
1 per place
1.9120222.1420232.3820242.4720252.242026

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

We do not have a checked cut-off distance for Madani Boys 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
448
Gender
Boys
Religious character
Muslim
Admissions
Non-Selective

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
23.9%
Typical secondary: 27.5%
% EAL
82.6%
Typical secondary: 12.0%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
9.4%
Typical secondary: 13.7%
% with an EHC plan
2.9%
Typical secondary: 2.9%

Attendance

Overall absence
5.5%
Typical secondary: 8.9%
Persistently absent
14.6%
Typical secondary: 25.7%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
25.0
Typical secondary: 16.7
Spend per pupil
£7,520
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
77%
61 pupils tracked
Stayed in education
77%
Apprenticeship
0%
Employment
0%

DfE, KS4 destination measures.

Nearby secondary schools

Location

About Madani Boys School

Madani Boys School is a boys' secondary school in Leicester, classified by the DfE as a voluntary aided school with a Muslim religious character. Around 448 pupils aged 11 to 16 attend the school. The school's average Attainment 8 score in the latest GCSE results was 52.2 — above the national average (national average: 46). Its Attainment 8 score has risen by 0.7 points year on year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it in the top 21% of secondary schools nationally.

61% of pupils achieved a grade 5 or above in both English and maths, well above the national average of about 45%. 81% achieved a standard pass (grade 4+) in English and maths. Madani Boys 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, 77% of its leavers went on to education, an apprenticeship or work that they stayed in for at least two terms. Overall pupil absence was 5.5%. There are about 25.0 pupils per teacher. Madani Boys 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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