Captains Close Primary School

Academy converter·Primary school Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire·LE14 3TU
Composite score
41.6
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National rank
#894
In East Midlands
#138
In Leicestershire
Top 70%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
55%
% achieving higher RWM
5%
Reading average scaled score
107.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
107.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Ofsted judgements

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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%
17 first choices, 19 places
First choices per place
0.90
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
39
any preference, for 19 places
Applications from another council area
3%
First preferences per place, last five years▼ 0.02
00.511.5
1 per place
0.8920220.9620230.8620240.9220250.902026

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

Every child who put Captains Close Primary 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
3–11
Pupils on roll
159
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
30.2%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
6.9%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
14.5%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
10.7%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
6.8%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
19.7%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
14.2
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£10,824
Typical primary: £6,960

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

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Location

Captains Close Primary School at a glance

Located in Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, Captains Close Primary School is a primary school, classified by the DfE as a converter academy. The school educates roughly 159 pupils aged 3 to 11. 55% 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 3.0 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 107 in reading and 107 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). 5% reached the higher standard across all three subjects (around 8% do so nationally). Getting a place is straightforward: for the September 2026 intake every family who made Captains Close Primary School their first choice was offered one of its 19 Reception places. Overall pupil absence was 6.8%. There are about 14.2 pupils per teacher. Captains Close 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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