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St Leonard's Church of England First School

Primary · Stoke-on-Trent · ST10 2LY

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Good

Graded inspection under the pre-November 2025 system

This is an overall-effectiveness grade from the previous inspection framework. The school has not yet had a report-card inspection.

Quality of education: GoodBehaviour & attitudes: GoodPersonal development: GoodLeadership & management: GoodSafeguarding effective: Yes

Inspected 27 September 2022

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At a glance

40 pupils · 45% of 89 capacity

School type
Academy converter
Age range
4–9
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
Church of England
Free school meals
7.5% of pupils
Website
www.stleonardsfirstschoolipstones.com
URN
151578

Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026

1.00 first-choice applications per place

9 places offered · 9 first-choice applications · roughly balanced

Applications and offers on national offer day, DfE. A ratio above 1.00 means more families named this school first choice than there were places.

Admissions cutoff distance: Reception

Every applicant was offered a place for 2013 entry, so distance was not needed to decide places.

Cutoff distances as published by the local authority. Siblings and other priority groups are offered places first; cutoffs move year to year.

Attendance (2025/26 autumn term)

Sessions missed (overall absence)
3.1%
England 6.5%
Pupils missing 10%+ of sessions (persistent absence)
0%
England 18.1%

Autumn-term absence, DfE pupil absence data. Lower is better.

Staffing

Pupils per qualified teacher
10.4
England 18.5

Full-time-equivalent, 2025/26.

School Workforce Census, DfE. The ratio counts full-time-equivalent qualified teachers; retention follows teachers in post one November to the next. Open Government Licence v3.0.

The area around the school

Child poverty (IDACI)
10/10among the least deprived tenth of England
Overall deprivation (IMD)
6/10around the middle for England

English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (MHCLG), decile of the small area the school stands in: 1 is the most deprived tenth of England, 10 the least. IDACI counts only children in low-income families, which is the measure closest to the intake a school is likely to draw on.

Census 2021This areaEngland
Adults with a degree or higher32.3%33.9%
Adults with no qualifications18.5%18.1%
In managerial or professional work32.7%33.2%
Households deprived in two or more ways14.8%18.1%
Residents in very good health45%48.5%
Homes owned by the occupier87.3%62.3%
Social housing2.6%17.1%
Privately rented10%20.5%
Detached houses62.8%22.9%
Flats2.4%22.2%
Homes with four or more bedrooms30.1%21.1%
Households with no car or van6.8%23.5%

Census 2021 (ONS) for statistical area E01029803 (a lower layer super output area), the neighbourhood of roughly 1,515 adults that the school stands in. These figures describe the area, not the pupils. Children travel in from further away, and for selective, faith and some other schools usually much further. Open Government Licence v3.0.

What homes cost nearby

Median sale price
£262,50026 sales within 1 km, January 2024 to July 2026
Typical range
£210,000–£357,500the middle half of sales
England median
£300,000all sales over the same period
Detached (16)£345,000
Terraced (6)£166,000

Homes around this school are cheaper than most school neighbourhoods in England, comparing the median within 1 km across every state school.

Every residential sale registered with HM Land Registry within 1 km of the school (straight line) since January 2024, market sales of houses and flats only. A sale is dated by completion and registered weeks later, so the most recent months are incomplete. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Postcodes located with OS Code-Point Open: contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026; contains Royal Mail data © Royal Mail copyright and database right 2026; contains National Statistics data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Roads around the school

No collision was reported to the police within 500 m of the school in 2021–2025.

Child pedestrian casualties
0a rural school averages 0.3
Collisions at school-run times
0a rural school averages 0.7
All reported collisions
0a rural school averages 3.4
Of those, serious or fatal
0a rural school averages 0.9

Every collision reported to the police within 500 m of the school in 2021–2025, from the Department for Transport's road casualty statistics (STATS19). "Child pedestrians" counts casualties aged under 16 on foot; "school-run times" means weekdays 07:30–09:00 and 15:00–16:30 outside August. A high count usually says the school sits on or near a busy road, not that the school is unsafe: counts rise with traffic and with how built-up an area is, which is why the comparison is with other rural schools. Distances are straight-line from the school's recorded position. Open Government Licence v3.0.

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