Diseworth Church of England Primary School

About Diseworth Church of England Primary School

Diseworth Church of England Primary School holds a Good rating from its most recent Ofsted inspection in May 2024, with inspectors awarding Good across all five categories, including quality of education, behaviour and attitudes, personal development, and leadership and management. The school has maintained this standard since its previous inspection in 2012, which also rated it Good. However, the most telling academic metric is the Key Stage 2 results for the 2023/24 academic year, where just 43% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths combined. This places the school well below the Leicestershire local authority average of 62% for the same measure. Nationally, the school ranks in the bottom 12% of all primary schools on this combined measure, and within North West Leicestershire it sits 37th out of 41 schools, putting it in the bottom 10% locally.

Looking more closely at the individual subjects, the picture is mixed. In reading, 57% of pupils reached the expected standard, with an average scaled score of 103. Writing saw the same proportion at 57% meeting expectations. Maths was weaker, with only 43% reaching the expected standard and an average score of 102. No pupils achieved the higher standard in any of the three subjects. Progress scores are not available for the school, so it is difficult to say whether pupils are improving at a typical rate compared with their peers nationally. The school's small size — just 37 pupils on roll against a capacity of 84 — means that these percentages represent very small numbers of children, so a single pupil's result can shift the figures significantly from one year to the next.

The school offers a range of facilities including playing fields, a sports hall, a sensory room, an ICT suite, music rooms, a forest school, a library and a chapel. It also provides a nursery provision for younger children. For families with children who have special educational needs, the school lists provisions for dyslexia, moderate learning difficulties, social and emotional mental health needs, speech and language communication needs, physical disabilities, autistic spectrum disorder and other difficulties. Despite its small size, the school was oversubscribed for the 2025/26 intake, with 19 applications for just 3 places and only 2 first-preference offers made. This suggests strong local demand, likely from families who value its Church of England character, small class sizes and village setting, even though its academic outcomes are below the local average.

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