State-fundedFree schools · Leicester · LE3 9BN
Secondary (no sixth form) · ages 11–16
Brook Mead Academy is a state-funded school in Leicester, teaching pupils aged 11 to 16.
No Progress 8 or Attainment 8 figures are published for this school. That usually means it is newly opened, has a cohort too small for figures to be published without identifying pupils, or is a special school for which the measures are not calculated.
301 families named this school first for 245 places for 2026 entry — 1.23 first preferences per place.
| 2026 entry | 2025 entry | 2024 entry | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Per place | 1.23× | 0.75× | 0.43× |
This is how sought-after a school is, not how good it is — demand tracks house prices and older siblings as much as anything a school does. It is also not your chance of getting in: a school with two applicants per place can still admit everyone living near it, while a less popular school a mile further away turns you down. Distance is usually what decides it, and that depends on your address.
| Overall absence | 6.7%82nd percentile |
|---|---|
| Persistently absent pupils | 19.4%77th percentile |
Absence is worth reading next to results: it is a plainer signal of whether pupils are turning up and engaged than any grade average. Across the schools in this dataset the overall absence rate averages 9.0%, so this school is below the norm.
Outstanding
A legacy overall effectiveness grade, from an inspection before Ofsted retired the single headline grade in 2025.
The GCSE results here are for 2023–24 and earlier, which describes pupils who have already left. Nothing on this page covers where pupils go next, A-level or sixth-form results, pastoral care, how far a school pushes music, sport or drama, or how it feels to walk around — and those are the things parents most often say settled it. Visit at an open evening before you rank a school.
Nor is any of it a prediction of a place. Whether your child is offered one depends on the school's admission criteria and, most often, on how far you live from the gate.
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