Rushey Mead Academy
Ofsted: Exceptional
Score
B80
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- Location
- Leicester, LE4 7AN
- Distance
- 0.4km away
Soar Valley College
Gleneagles Avenue, Leicester, LE4 7GY
Local ranking3rd of 20 secondary schools in Leicester
Ofsted: Outstanding
Secondary
Phase
1560
Capacity
11-16
Age range
Mixed
Gender
School history and successor
Continues from Soar Valley College (URN 120286) since 1 May 2023. Results, demographics and trends from before then are that school's, shown here so the record is unbroken.
Ofsted Inspection
Inspected 11 March 2025 — from September 2024 Ofsted no longer gave an overall grade, but each area below was judged in full
Safeguarding standards Met
- Quality of education
- Outstanding
- Behaviour & attitudes
- Outstanding
- Personal development
- Outstanding
- Leadership & management
- Outstanding
Scale: Outstanding · Good · Requires improvement · Inadequate
Year:
GCSE Results
2024-25- Average Attainment 8
- 51.5 nat46.0
- Grade 5+ Eng & Maths
- 47.9% nat45.4%
- Grade 4+ Eng & Maths
- 71.8% nat64.8%
- Entering EBacc
- 30.4% nat40.5%
- EBacc APS
- 4.4 nat4.1
- Cohort Size
- 309
Destinations
After GCSE 2024-25
- Sustained education/employment
- 93.0%
- Continued in education
- 92.0%
- Not sustained
- 5.0%
Pupil Demographics
2024-25- Total Pupils
- 1564
- Boys
- 813 (52%)
- Girls
- 751 (48%)
- Capacity
- 1560 (100% full)
- SEND
- 13.5%
- FSM Eligible
- 30.5%
- EAL
- 76.9%
- SEN with EHC Plan
- 2.0%
- SEN Support
- 11.5%
- Pupil:Teacher Ratio
- 16.1:1
- Teachers (FTE)
- 97.4
- Budget per Pupil
- £8,112/yr
Attendance & Absence
2024-25- Overall Absence Rate
- 5.4% nat6.2%
- Persistent Absence
- 13.0% nat15.8%
Persistent absence: pupils missing 10%+ of sessions.
School Information
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- Religious Character
- Does not apply
- Nursery
- No Nursery Classes
- Sixth Form
- Does not have a sixth form
- Boarders
- No boarders
- Admissions
- Non-selective
Pupil Ethnicity
Loading chart
- Asian Indian: 61.6%
- Asian Other: 8.4%
- Black African: 7.4%
- White Other: 6.0%
- White British: 5.2%
- Asian Pakistani: 4.8%
- Mixed Other: 1.4%
- Mixed White & Asian: 1.2%
61.6%
Asian Indian
8.4%
Asian Other
7.4%
Black African
Historical Trends
GCSE Performance
Pupil Demographics
Attendance & Absence
Ethnicity Over Time
Contact & Location
Gleneagles Avenue
Leicester, East Midlands
Administrative
- URN
- 148877
- UKPRN
- 10089753
- Establishment No.
- 4250
- Trust
- ASPIRE LEARNING PARTNERSHIP
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