Stonebow Primary School Loughborough

Academy converter·Primary school Loughborough, Leicestershire·LE11 4ZH
Composite score
36.4
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#11,996
National rank
#1098
In East Midlands
#171
In Leicestershire
Top 81%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
56%
% achieving higher RWM
0%
Reading average scaled score
105.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
106.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Ofsted judgements

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

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
100%
20 first choices, 20 places
First choices per place
1.00
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
47
any preference, for 20 places
First preferences per place, last five years▶ 0.00
00.511.5
1 per place
1.0020220.8420230.9620241.0020251.002026

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

Every child who put Stonebow Primary School Loughborough 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
4–11
Pupils on roll
205
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
16.1%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
8.8%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
16.1%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
2.9%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
7.3%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
15.0%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
25.0
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£5,834
Typical primary: £6,960

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

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Location

Stonebow Primary School Loughborough at a glance

Located in Loughborough, Leicestershire, Stonebow Primary School Loughborough is a primary school, classified by the DfE as a converter academy. The school educates roughly 205 pupils aged 4 to 11. Ofsted judged the school to be 'Good' at its most recent inspection. 56% of its pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of Key Stage 2, broadly in line with the national average (national figure: 61%). The proportion reaching the expected standard has fallen by 20.0 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 105 in reading and 106 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). Getting a place is straightforward: for the September 2026 intake every family who made Stonebow Primary School Loughborough their first choice was offered one of its 20 Reception places. Overall pupil absence was 7.3%. There are about 25.0 pupils per teacher. Given the recent dip in results, it may be worth asking the school what is behind the change and what is being done in response. 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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