Ashby Willesley Primary School

About Ashby Willesley Primary School

Ashby Willesley Primary School’s Key Stage 2 results comfortably outpace the local authority average, marking it as a strong performer within Leicestershire’s primary landscape. While the LA average for pupils reaching the expected standard in reading, writing and maths sits at 62%, Ashby Willesley achieves 73% — a clear eleven-point advantage. This places the school in the top 25% nationally and sixth out of 41 schools in the North West Leicestershire ranking. The school is also notably oversubscribed: for its 60 places in 2025/26, it received 159 applications, with 60 first-preference requests and 53 offers made. That level of demand suggests local families see it as a reliable choice. The school’s most recent Ofsted inspection, in November 2022, rated it Good across every category — quality of education, behaviour and attitudes, personal development, leadership and management, and early years provision — maintaining the same rating it held in its previous inspection a decade earlier.

Looking more closely at the 2023/24 exam data, Ashby Willesley’s pupils perform particularly well in maths. 92% reached the expected standard, and 40% achieved the higher standard — a strong showing for a primary school. Reading scores are similarly solid: 85% at expected and 45% at the higher threshold. Writing is slightly lower, with 78% at expected and 13% at the higher level, which is a common pattern nationally. The school’s average scaled scores are 109 in maths and 108 in reading, both above the national benchmark of 100. Only 8% of pupils reached the higher standard across all three subjects, which is modest but reflects the challenge of achieving that combined threshold. The school’s Progress 8 scores are not available, so it is not possible to measure how much value the school adds relative to pupils’ starting points, but the raw attainment figures are clearly above the local norm.

The school is well equipped, with facilities including a music room, ICT suite, gymnasium, sports hall, forest school area and even a chapel. Sports on offer include athletics, rounders, swimming and gymnastics, while clubs range from film club and coding to chess, choir and drama. For families with children who have additional needs, the school lists support for a wide range of SEND categories, including dyslexia, moderate learning difficulty, speech and language needs, hearing and visual impairments, and autistic spectrum disorder. With 405 pupils against a capacity of 420, the school is nearly full but not bursting, and only 4.2% of pupils are eligible for free school meals — well below the national average, which may reflect the area’s demographic profile. Ashby Willesley suits families who prioritise strong academic foundations in a well-resourced, Good-rated primary that is clearly popular within its community.

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