Academy sponsor led · Primary
Leicester · LE3 1PF · Leicester
Ages 3–11
Status: Open
0.3 miles away
OpenPrimaryURN 143245
Braunstone Community Primary School
Academy converter · Leicester · LE3 1QH
Phase
Primary
Age range
Ages 3–11
Pupils
429
Local authority
Leicester
Age range
Ages 3–11
05111619
Provision snapshot
Based on official GIAS characteristics
2 / 6
- NurseryHas Nursery Classes
- Sixth formDoes not have a sixth form
- BoardingNo boarders
- Special school
- Independent
- Academy
Local context
How this school sits among open establishments in its area, using official GIAS records. These are counts, not rankings.
Mixed academy converter (primary), Ages 3–11, in Leicester, Leicester, 429 pupils on roll. Notable characteristics: nursery, academy. Free school meals: 60.3%.
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Overview
- School type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Age range
- 3–11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Status
- Open
- URN
- 143245
Location
- Address
- Cort Crescent, Braunstone
- Postcode
- LE3 1QH
- Town
- Leicester
- County
- Leicestershire
- Local authority
- Leicester
- District
- Leicester
- Constituency
- Leicester West
- Urban/rural
- Urban: Nearer to a major town or city
Size & intake
Pupil numbers and free school meals come from the GIAS school census fields. Capacity fill is calculated when both pupils and capacity are published. Census date: 15 Jan 2026.
- Pupils on roll
- 429
- Boys / girls
- 220 / 209
- School capacity
- 420
- Capacity fill
- 429 / 420 (102%)
- Free school meals
- 60.3%
- FSM pupils
- 238
- Gender
- Mixed
School characteristics
- Nursery provision
- Has Nursery Classes
- Sixth form
- Does not have a sixth form
- Boarding
- No boarders
- Governance
- Academy trust: DISCOVERY SCHOOLS ACADEMIES TRUST LTD
- Academy trust
- DISCOVERY SCHOOLS ACADEMIES TRUST LTD
- Sponsor
- Discovery Schools Academies Trust Ltd
Contact
- Headteacher
- Miss Sharon Walker
- Telephone
- 01162858130
Official links
Ofsted
Latest inspection outcomes from Ofsted monthly management information. Report-card grades use the current framework where published; older OEIF grades are shown when that is the latest graded inspection.
Headline
Good
Inspection date
2019-09-18
- Overall effectiveness
- Good
- Quality of education
- Good
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Good
- Personal development
- Good
- Leadership and management
- Good
- Safeguarding effective
- Yes
Performance
Official school-level results from DfE school and college performance tables. Figures are not rankings — suppressed or unavailable values are omitted.
Key stage 2 (2023/24)
- Expected standard (RWM)
- 50%
- Higher standard (RWM)
- 3%
- Avg scaled score — reading
- 103.0
- Avg scaled score — maths
- 104.0
- Avg scaled score — GPS
- 101.0