Community school · Primary
Leicester · LE5 1NG · Leicester
Ages 3–11
Status: Open
0.3 miles away
OpenPrimaryURN 138115
St Joseph's Catholic Academy
Academy converter · Leicester · LE5 1HF
Phase
Primary
Age range
Ages 3–11
Pupils
213
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, 213 pupils on roll. Notable characteristics: nursery, academy. Free school meals: 22.6%. Religious character: Roman Catholic. Diocese: Diocese of Nottingham.
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Overview
- School type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Age range
- 3–11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Status
- Open
- URN
- 138115
Location
- Address
- Armadale Drive
- Postcode
- LE5 1HF
- 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
- 213
- Boys / girls
- 95 / 118
- School capacity
- 307
- Capacity fill
- 213 / 307 (69%)
- Free school meals
- 22.6%
- FSM pupils
- 47
- Gender
- Mixed
School characteristics
- Nursery provision
- Has Nursery Classes
- Sixth form
- Does not have a sixth form
- Boarding
- No boarders
- Special classes
- No Special Classes
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Diocese
- Diocese of Nottingham
- Governance
- Academy trust: ST THOMAS AQUINAS CATHOLIC MULTI ACADEMY TRUST
- Academy trust
- ST THOMAS AQUINAS CATHOLIC MULTI ACADEMY TRUST
Contact
- Headteacher
- Mrs Clair Dedman
- Telephone
- 01162416197
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
2022-05-10
- 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)
- 46%
- Higher standard (RWM)
- 8%
- Avg scaled score — reading
- 103.0
- Avg scaled score — maths
- 103.0
- Avg scaled score — GPS
- 103.0