Saint Peters Catholic Voluntary Academy

Academy converter·Primary school Leicestershire·LE9 7AW
Composite score
49.2
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#7,529
National rank
#616
In East Midlands
#95
In Leicestershire
Top 51%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
65%
% achieving higher RWM
6%
Reading average scaled score
105.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
105.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
100%
26 first choices, 29 places
First choices per place
0.90
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
58
any preference, for 29 places
First preferences per place, last five years▼ 0.05
00.511.5
1 per place
0.9620221.0020231.0020240.9520250.902026

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

Every child who put Saint Peters Catholic Voluntary Academy 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
202
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
Roman Catholic

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
14.8%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
15.3%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
17.3%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
1.5%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
5.4%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
10.1%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
31.9
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£6,564
Typical primary: £6,960

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

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Location

Saint Peters Catholic Voluntary Academy at a glance

Located in Leicestershire, Saint Peters Catholic Voluntary Academy is a primary school, classified by the DfE as a converter academy with a Roman Catholic religious character. The school educates roughly 202 pupils aged 4 to 11. 65% 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 2.0 percentage points year on year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it around the middle of primary schools nationally.

Pupils achieved an average scaled score of 105 in reading and 105 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). 6% 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 Saint Peters Catholic Voluntary Academy their first choice was offered one of its 29 Reception places. Overall pupil absence was 5.4%. There are about 31.9 pupils per teacher. Saint Peters Catholic Voluntary Academy 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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