The School Record

The Hall School

Primary school · Leicestershire

Glenfield Frith Drive, Leicester, LE3 8PQ

This school became an academy on 1 September 2025. Before that it was a community school, under its earlier school number, URN 120070.

About the school

Type of school
Academy
Academy trust
Symphony Learning Trust
Became an academy
1 September 2025. Before that it was a community school, under its earlier school number, URN 120070.
Ages
3 to 11
Boys or girls
Boys and girls
Nursery classes
Yes
Website
https://www.thehallprimary.com/
Telephone
0116 287 3582
School number (URN)
151954

Other schools run by Symphony Learning Trust

Symphony Learning Trust runs 18 other schools with a page here. These are the 10 nearest.

From Get Information about Schools, retrieved 2 September 2026. Schools update their own entries, so these can be out of date.

Children in each year group

As counted on one day in January 2026, the most recent school census. These are children, not places.

Children in each year group at The Hall School

Nursery 1 12, Nursery 2 58, Reception 59, Y1 60, Y2 60, Y3 61, Y4 60, Y5 60, Y6 6012Nursery 158Nursery 259Reception60Y160Y261Y360Y460Y560Y6
Source: Department for Education school census, January 2026.
Year groupChildren
Nursery 1 12
Nursery 2 58
Reception 59
Year 1 60
Year 2 60
Year 3 61
Year 4 60
Year 5 60
Year 6 60

This is not a list of spare places. Places per year group are not published, and the count is from January. Children join and leave all year, so a year group that looked two under in January can be full by March.

If you are moving into the area and need a place during the school year, ask Leicestershire. Councils handle applications made during the school year, including for schools that set their own admission rules. They hold the up-to-date position, which this page does not.

Who decides who gets a place

This school sets its own admission rules, through its academy trust, rather than Leicestershire setting them.

Look on the school's own website for its admission arrangements. An admission authority has to agree its rules every year and publish them. The council still takes the application.

Taken from the kind of school this is, as recorded by the Department for Education. We do not hold this school's rules themselves: a summary of an admission rule is not the rule, and only the admission authority's own published arrangements are binding.

How to apply

Applications for a place starting in September 2027 close on 15 January 2027, the date the School Admissions Code sets for every council in England.

Councils send every offer for primary school places on the same day, 16 April 2027 or the next working day.

You apply through the council where you live, even for a school in another area. You do not apply to the school. Find your council's primary school application on GOV.UK.

If you live in Leicestershire, the council's own page explains how to apply there. Leicestershire school admissions.

To ask about visiting the school, or anything else about it, contact the school. Website: https://www.thehallprimary.com/. Telephone: 0116 287 3582.

Links and dates can change. Your council's own website has the final word. The dates are set nationally by the School Admissions Code 2021. GOV.UK link checked 23 September 2026. Leicestershire's page checked 29 September 2026. Contact details from Get Information about Schools.

How many families applied

Preferences expressed and offers made at Reception, as published by the Department for Education. These describe demand, not whether a particular child would be offered a place.

In the 2026 intake, 67 families named The Hall School as their first preference, and the school made 59 offers.

That is 1.14 first preferences per place offered, higher than 87% of schools admitting at Reception in England that year.

More first preferences per place than 87% of comparable schools
Position among schools in England admitting at Reception, 2026 intake.

First preferences for this school rose 20%, from 56 a year in 2022–2023 to 68 in 2025–2026. Across all 225 schools in Leicestershire admitting at Reception, first preferences changed little over the same years, from 7,395 to 6,870.

Counts of families, not places.

Across Leicestershire as a whole, 94.0% of families applying for a primary place for September 2026 were offered their first choice, and 99.1% were offered one of the three schools they named. That is a figure for the council, not for this school. How the 2026 round went in Leicestershire.

Compared with its own past

About the same number of families as its recent average put this school first.

In 2026, 67 families put this school first. In 2021 to 2025 the average was 62 a year.

In 2026, 143 families named this school somewhere on their list. In 2021 to 2025 the average was 118 a year.

In 2026, 81 in every 100 families who put this school first were offered a place here (54 of 67). In 2021 to 2025 it was 92 in every 100.

In 2026, 12 of the 59 offers went to children living outside Leicestershire. In 2021 to 2025 the average was 16 a year.

Some of the earlier years are from this school's record under its old school number.

Each figure is compared only with the same figure at this school. "About the same" means within 10 in every 100 of the average.

First preferences and offers at Reception

Families naming The Hall School first, against the offers it made, for every intake year held.

First preferences from 92 in 2014 to 67 in 2026; Offers made from 59 in 2014 to 59 in 20264060801002014201620182020202220242026First preferences67Offers made59
Source: Department for Education, school-level applications and offers. Preferences count families. Offers count places given out on offer day. The vertical axis does not start at zero.

Figures before 2026 are from this school's earlier record, under its old school number (URN 120070), before it became an academy. The government's school register links the two, and they are the same school.

Applications and offers at Reception, 13 intake years
Intake 1st preferences1st choice All preferencesAny choice Offers madeOffers 1st prefs per placePer place
2026 67 143 59 1.14
2025
old school number		 69 129 60 1.15
2024
old school number		 58 112 60 0.97
2023
old school number		 49 120 55 0.89
2022
old school number		 64 111 59 1.08
2021
old school number		 69 116 60 1.15
2020
old school number		 65 130 60 1.08
2019
old school number		 58 93 58 1.00
2018
old school number		 75 114 59 1.27
2017
old school number		 65 120 59 1.10
2016
old school number		 92 156 60 1.53
2015
old school number		 87 153 60 1.45
2014
old school number		 92 160 59 1.56

“Offers made” is the number of offers on offer day, not the number of places the school has.

Source: Department for Education: school-level applications and offers, checked 14 September 2026. All sources.

Where families put this school on their list

In 2026 this school made 59 offers: 54 to families who had named it first, 3 to families who named it second and 2 to families who named it third.

A school is not allowed to treat a family differently because of where it sat on their list. The School Admissions Code says an admission authority must not give extra priority to children whose parents rank preferred schools in a particular order.

The order is used at the end, by the council, and not by the school. Where more than one school could take a child, the council offers the one the family put highest.

Leaving the other boxes empty does not change how this school considers an application. If none of the schools a family names can offer a place, the council has to offer one at a school that has room, and that school may be further away.

Source: Department for Education school level applications and offers, and the School Admissions Code 2021, paragraphs 1.9 and 2.11.

Ofsted

Ofsted changed its inspection framework: the current one publishes several graded areas and no single overall grade, while the previous one published an overall effectiveness grade. Each inspection below states which framework produced it.

Ofsted ungraded inspection, 9 February 2023

This inspection relates to a predecessor of the current school.

School remains Good

Ofsted's report for this school

Source: Ofsted: state-funded school inspections management information, checked 14 September 2026. All sources.

If you are refused a place

In 2026, families in Leicestershire lodged 113 appeals about a primary school place.

66 of them were heard by a panel and 5 succeeded, which is about 8 in every 100 heard.

The other 47 did not reach a panel. Most appeals that do not are withdrawn because a place comes up first.

Reception is an infant class, and the law caps an infant class at 30 children. A panel hearing an appeal about an infant class can only agree in three situations: the place was refused by mistake, the admission rules were not applied properly, or the decision was one no reasonable council would have made. It cannot simply decide that the child should have the place.

Of the 60 infant class appeals heard in Leicestershire in 2026, 0 succeeded.

This is a record of decisions already made. A panel hears one case at a time and decides it on what that family sets out, so these figures do not indicate what would happen in any particular appeal.

These count appeals about every school in Leicestershire, not this school. Nobody publishes appeal figures school by school.

Source: Department for Education, admission appeals in England, reporting year 2026.

Waiting lists

Being refused a place does not end the application. Every admission authority has to keep a waiting list until at least 31 December of the school year the child would have started, and some keep them for longer.

A waiting list is not a queue. The rules say a child cannot be given priority for having joined it earlier, or for having applied earlier. The list is put back in order against the school's own admission rules every time a child is added, so a place can move further away as well as nearer.

Councils differ on whether a refused child goes onto the list automatically. The council that sent the refusal is the only place that can say which it does.

From the School Admissions Code 2021, paragraph 2.15.

Children with special educational needs

In January 2026, 12 of the 490 children here had an education, health and care plan. That is 2 in every 100. Across schools in England the middle figure is 4 in every 100.

A further 63 were on SEN support, which is help arranged by the school without a plan. That is 13 in every 100, against a middle figure of 15 in every 100 across England.

A school named in a child's education, health and care plan has to admit that child. That duty holds even when the school is full, and it sits outside the rules that decide who gets a place when there are more children than places. Which school is named is decided with the council while the plan is being written, not through the normal application.

Source: Department for Education, special educational needs in England, January 2026 census.

Who goes to this school

In January 2026, 37 of the 490 children here were known to be eligible for free school meals. That is 8 in every 100.

Fewer children are eligible here than at half of primary schools in England, where the middle figure is 20 in every 100.

English was not the first language for 12 in every 100 children here. Across primary schools the middle figure is 10 in every 100.

This describes the children who go to this school. It is not a measure of the school. Most children go to a school near home, so it is mostly a fact about the streets around it.

This matters when reading results. Across the 15,153 schools we hold 2024 key stage 2 results for, the fifth with the fewest eligible children averaged 70% reaching the expected standard in reading, writing and maths. The fifth with the most averaged 48%.

Those are averages of many schools all over the country. This school's own results are further down this page exactly as published.

Source: Department for Education school census, January 2026. Free school meal eligibility is counted for every pupil on roll.

Catchment area

Nobody publishes a catchment area map for this school that we can read. That does not mean an address is outside its area. It means we hold no map, so we cannot tell you either way.

Where it is, and schools nearby

The 6 nearest primary schools we hold figures for, by straight-line distance from The Hall School.

Nearby and related

Where these figures come from

Using this information

This is information only, not advice. It may have mistakes in it, or be out of date. Check with the school and the council before you decide anything. We collect these figures from official publications and check them, but mistakes can get through. If you find one, tell us.

Figures current as of 14 September 2026.

This page was updated on 5 November 2026. "Retrieved" is the date of our copy of each source, not the year its figures describe. How we compare schools.