primary schools research inner and outer leicester

[Cinnamonlily06]

we are sooo moving by end of this school year and know nothing about schools are areas in leicester!
we are considering:
meadow community wigston
BAdgebrook
brockshills
glen hills
St John the Baptist CofE Primary School
st thomas
please advice ! thanks

[Tara1968]

Hi I moved to Oadby 2 months ago and can't believe the problems I am having getting my two children into a local school. We have not moved within Leicestershire to specifically target Oadby schools like a lot of people seem to be doing. However, my children have been out of school for over 2 months and all school places in Oadby are full, with none available for September either. Currently we have no confirmed places so still do not know whether they will be allocated places in September. They are due to start Year 2 and Year 6 from September. We've appealed and are currently awaiting a decision. However, the news on the grapevine is that most appeals are unsuccessful and that unless there is a specific medical or special educational needs reason, we are unlikely to get into any local schools. I have already been told not to get my hopes up. The nearest school to us with places for both my children currently is Kibworth over 5 miles away and by the time my application is processed this may no longer be available.

To top it all off, I have looked at the admissions criteria for Beauchamp and Gartree for when my eldest goes to High school in September 18 and have been informed that despite living within 0.5 miles and within the catchment area, my son will not get in to Beauchamp as he has not attended a feeder school for a minimum of 2 years beforehand. This was quite clearly impossible as we have only just moved to Leicestershire. Apparently children living in Leicester City will take precedent in their admissions criteria over my child who lives in the area as we have only just moved. Am due to check out the Gartree admissions policy to see whether this is true for them as well

Does anyone have any advice or information they could share with me? Thank you.

[UnaPalomaBlanca]

Thomas More- unlikely to get in unless practising Catholic. St John the Baptist- unlikely to get in if not practising some faith. Priority goes to Christians but there are many children of Islamic, Sikh, Hindu faiths and more.
Overdale is very highly regarded catchment school. Have no idea of it's ethnic breakdown but Leic is a successfully diverse city.
Avenue primary is catchment school for Clarendon Pk and other areas. It has had issues with OFSTED in recent years but is regarded as a a good solid school by most parents.

[eastmidlandsnightnanny]

Waterleys is in wigston borders Knight on and sometimes knighton children manage to get an out catchment place and it feeds into bushloe now joined with Abington and known as wigston academy

[Cinnamonlily06]

Thank you !!! I haven't looked at St. John I was looking at st Thomas and overdale for Knighton . How is wigston?
Yes my daughter will start sec in 2 years 🙈

[SugarMiceInTheRain]

Oadby schools are great, my son is starting at Gartree in September, though we live in Wigston, we are looking to move to Oadby before DS2 starts secondary. Again, Oadby is quite an Asian area - lots of people who value education highly seem to move there, plus it's close to the private schools in Great Glen but less expensive to live in than the villages.

Friends who have children at Glen Hills love it. Stoneygate and Clarendon Park are nice areas to live in, I believe St John's has a good reputation too.

[Cinnamonlily06]

Thank you !!! From ofsted it looks that oadby schools are great .... Sooo confusing 🙈🙈

[justjuanmorebeer]

I have friends and a nephew at Brookside in Oadby and they are really happy with it. Know one little girl who goes to Langmoor I will ask the mum what she thinks.

[Cinnamonlily06]

ok spoke with overdale which is indeed oversubscribed and to go thru leicester council admissions…. (for in year transfer )
St Thomas is more open mostly due to priority in faith…but i also heard very good about Oadby and all they schools seems to be doing so well there and this is confusing me :(((
Anyone in Oadby able to advice please??

[Cinnamonlily06]

I will now
Any other school that is worth looking into ? Thanks

[justjuanmorebeer]

It is a Catholic school but like any faith school here they take all religions you just have to get proof from your place of worship that you are regular attenders etc.

Have you contacted any schools yet to see if they have any places? I'd be basing your decision on that really. It is not realistic to think you can move and you'll just get an in year transfer to the school you like. Make admissions enquiries and ask Leicester city council what the wait times are like.

[Cinnamonlily06]

but st thomas is not catholic?
anyway i don't mind as far as they are good schools
any other schools in the area please?

[justjuanmorebeer]

Choude, the schools in the areas mentioned: Thomas more, Overdale and StJohns or Avenue are all predominantly Asian. As are the Secondaries for the corresponding catchments.

[justjuanmorebeer]

[Cinnamonlily06]

I don't mind mixed but 70% it's a bit too much ... And that's what they say about overdale...

[ChoudeBruxelles]

No they won't. Combined ethnic minorities make up about 51% of the population

[justjuanmorebeer]

All the schools in Leicester city will have mainly Asian students on roll. If that is a problem for you then Leicester maybe isn't the right place.

[Cinnamonlily06]

I was looking at rightmove catchment areas 🙈
But after a lot of thinking I really like stoneygate and Clarendon areas so I will concentrate the search there ... Most probably will try st Thomas . Overdale looks like it it very Asian from ofsted report but possibly will go and see it sometime this week . Any other schools there please ?

[justjuanmorebeer]

My friend whose little girl goes to Glen Hills moved into the Badge catchment from another house in Glen Parva so they could get in to the school. However it was full and they could not get a place for a mid year transfer so she goes to Glen Hills instead.

You need to contact the school directly and ask if there is any likelihood of actually getting a place before you sign on a house. Glen Parva an ok location if either of you need to get onto the motorway for a commute.

[ChoudeBruxelles]

Where is the house you've seen

[Wishfulmakeupping]

Confused op it wouldn't be the catchment for both please don't go on rightmove map catchment app it's a load of rubbish- google the catchment maps for specific schools the catchments for both badgerbrook and glen hills are tiny and not always logical if that makes sense there's literally roads cuts in half so houses next door to each other would be in different catchments.
Badgerbrook is outstanding and feeds into leysland which is also outstanding.
Glen hills feeds into south wigston I don't know what the ofsted it but its not got a great rep although a new head had taken over so its changing.
Glen hills kids can go to leysland if its not oversubscribed but its a tiny number that go up from glen hills to anywhere other than south wig so your kids would be the odd ones out iykwim.

[Cinnamonlily06]

for secondary i tough catchment would be bigger or are they attached to the choice of primary? in london is not,depends if they are oversubscribed or not,but all goes with catchment

[Cinnamonlily06]

tx! glen hill and badgebrook are both outstanding in the ofsted report…
the house we are after seems to be in the catchement for both

[ChoudeBruxelles]

Dn is yr 5. What's the catchment?

[justjuanmorebeer]

I know a little girl in f2 at Glen Hills. Small world. Meant to be great.

[Cinnamonlily06]

😀 what year??