Rowlatts Mead Primary Academy

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Composite score
75.1
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#1,148
National rank
#78
In East Midlands
#4
In Leicester
Top 8%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
76%
% achieving higher RWM
22%
Reading average scaled score
107.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
108.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Ofsted judgements

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

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
92%
65 first choices, 60 places
First choices per place
1.08
more first choices than places
Applications naming the school
84
any preference, for 60 places
Last place offered lived
0.43 mi
straight line, 2026 intake · 684 m
Applications from another council area
1%
First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.08
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1 per place
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Red dashed line = one first choice per place. How to read this

The cut-off distance is how far the last child offered a place lived, not a catchment boundary: it moves every year with the number of applicants. Published by the council in its 2026 allocation figures, and checked against that document before we show it.

Application figures: DfE, school level applications and offers (2026 intake).

School profile

Age range
3–11
Pupils on roll
418
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
29.6%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
70.6%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
13.9%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
1.7%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
6.0%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
20.9%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
25.3
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£5,305
Typical primary: £6,960

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

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About Rowlatts Mead Primary Academy

Rowlatts Mead Primary Academy is a primary school in Leicester, classified by the DfE as a converter academy. Around 418 pupils aged 3 to 11 attend the school. The school holds a 'Good' judgement from Ofsted. 76% of its pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of Key Stage 2, well above the national average (national figure: 61%). The proportion reaching the expected standard has fallen by 2.0 percentage points compared with the previous year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it among the top 8% of primary schools in England.

Pupils achieved an average scaled score of 107 in reading and 108 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). 22% reached the higher standard across all three subjects (around 8% do so nationally). Rowlatts Mead Primary Academy is oversubscribed: about 9 in 10 of the families who made it their first choice were offered a Reception place for September 2026, with 65 first choices for 60 places. In 2026 the furthest child offered a place lived 0.43 miles from the school in a straight line, according to the council's published allocation figures; the distance changes every year with demand. Overall pupil absence was 6.0%. There are about 25.3 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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