Leigh Academy Peninsula East
Academy converter · Rochester · ME3 9HR
Ages 3–11 · 230 pupils · Medway
Ofsted
Good
KS2 expected (RWM)
75%
Overall absence
5.6%
Admissions demand
0.89 · Often has places
Ofsted
Latest published inspection outcomes — not a ranking.
Headline
Good
Inspection date
2024-05-21
- Overall effectiveness
- Good
- Quality of education
- Good
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Outstanding
- Personal development
- Outstanding
- Leadership and management
- Outstanding
- Safeguarding effective
- Yes
Performance
Official school-level results. Figures are not rankings — suppressed values are omitted.
Key stage 2 (2023/24)
- Avg scaled score — reading
- 104.0
- Avg scaled score — maths
- 101.0
- Avg scaled score — GPS
- 101.0
Absence
Academic year 2023/24. Persistent absence means 10%+ of sessions missed. Lower figures are better.
- Authorised absence
- 4.0%
- Severe absence (50%+)
- 1.0%
- Enrolments in measure
- 201
Absence trend
2021/22
2022/23
2023/24
- Overall
- Persistent (10%+)
Admissions demand
Coordinated admissions for primary entry (2024/25 cycle, national offer day). Demand ratio compares families who listed this school 1st with total offers made — not a catchment or distance guarantee.
Demand ratio
0.89 · Often has places
1st preferences
24
Places offered
29
1st-preference offers
24
- Total preferences (any rank)
- 39
- Preferred offers (top 3)
- 28
- Applications from outside LA
- 0
- Offers to outside-LA applicants
- 0
Source: DfE primary and secondary school applications and offers. Figures reflect offers on national offer day; late applications, appeals and waiting lists are not included.
Size & intake
From the GIAS school census (15 Jan 2026).
230 pupils · 250 places
- Pupils on roll
- 230
- Boys / girls
- 113 / 117
- School capacity
- 250
- Capacity fill
- 230 / 250 (92%)
- Free school meals
- 22.7%
- FSM pupils
- 52
- Gender
- Mixed
- School type
- Academy converter
Age range
Ages 3–11
Provision
Official GIAS characteristics
2 / 6
- NurseryHas Nursery Classes
- Sixth form
- Boarding
- Special school
- Independent
- Academy
School characteristics
- Special classes
- No Special Classes
- Governance
- Academy trust: LEIGH ACADEMIES TRUST
- Academy trust
- LEIGH ACADEMIES TRUST
- Sponsor
- Leigh Academies Trust
- Headteacher
- Mrs Lorna Rimmer
Location
- Address
- Avery Way, Allhallows
- Postcode
- ME3 9HR
- Town
- Rochester
- Local authority
- Medway
- District
- Medway
- Constituency
- Rochester and Strood
- Urban/rural
- Smaller rural: Nearer to a major town or city
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 Rochester, Medway, 230 pupils on roll. Notable characteristics: nursery, academy. Free school meals: 22.7%.
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Contact
- Headteacher
- Mrs Lorna Rimmer
- Telephone
- 01634270428