Mulberry West St Leonards Primary

Academy sponsor led·Primary school St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex·TN38 8BX
Composite score
56.5
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#4,971
National rank
#728
In South East
#31
In East Sussex
Top 34%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
60%
% achieving higher RWM
15%
Reading average scaled score
104.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
104.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
98%
53 first choices, 60 places
First choices per place
0.88
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
94
any preference, for 60 places
First preferences per place, last five years▼ 0.01
00.511.5
1 per place
0.9220220.8620230.9620240.9020250.882026

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

We do not have a checked cut-off distance for Mulberry West St Leonards Primary yet. East Sussex 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
5–11
Pupils on roll
417
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
31.9%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
10.3%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
12.9%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
3.1%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
7.7%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
26.3%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
20.2
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£6,789
Typical primary: £6,960

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

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Location

School overview

Mulberry West St Leonards Primary is a primary school serving St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex, classified by the DfE as a sponsor-led academy. It has 417 pupils aged 5 to 11 on roll. 60% 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 risen by 6.0 percentage points year on year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it in the top 34% of primary schools nationally.

Pupils achieved an average scaled score of 104 in reading and 104 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). 15% reached the higher standard across all three subjects (around 8% do so nationally). 98% of the families who made Mulberry West St Leonards Primary their first choice were offered a Reception place for September 2026, even though the school made at least as many offers as it had first choices - the rest withdrew, moved or fell outside a priority group. Overall pupil absence was 7.7%. There are about 20.2 pupils per teacher. Mulberry West St Leonards Primary 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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