Community school · Primary
Leicester · LE5 0PL · Leicester
Ages 3–7
Status: Open
0.0 miles away
OpenPrimaryURN 143244
Merrydale Junior School
Academy converter · Leicester · LE5 0PL
Phase
Primary
Age range
Ages 7–11
Pupils
354
Local authority
Leicester
Age range
Ages 7–11
05111619
Provision snapshot
Based on official GIAS characteristics
1 / 6
- NurseryNo 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 7–11, in Leicester, Leicester, 354 pupils on roll. Notable characteristics: academy. Free school meals: 31.6%.
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Overview
- School type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Age range
- 7–11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Status
- Open
- URN
- 143244
Location
- Address
- Claydon Road
- Postcode
- LE5 0PL
- Town
- Leicester
- County
- Leicestershire
- Local authority
- Leicester
- District
- Leicester
- Constituency
- Leicester East
- 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
- 354
- Boys / girls
- 194 / 160
- School capacity
- 360
- Capacity fill
- 354 / 360 (98%)
- Free school meals
- 31.6%
- FSM pupils
- 112
- Gender
- Mixed
School characteristics
- Nursery provision
- No Nursery Classes
- Sixth form
- Does not have a sixth form
- Boarding
- No boarders
- Special classes
- No Special Classes
- Governance
- Academy trust: DISCOVERY SCHOOLS ACADEMIES TRUST LTD
- Academy trust
- DISCOVERY SCHOOLS ACADEMIES TRUST LTD
- Sponsor
- Discovery Schools Academies Trust Ltd
Contact
- Headteacher
- Mr Antony Corbett
- Telephone
- 01162767708
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
2019-10-23
- 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)
- 0%
- Avg scaled score — reading
- 103.0
- Avg scaled score — maths
- 103.0
- Avg scaled score — GPS
- 105.0