Your Guide to Secondary Education in Leicestershire

Leicestershire County Council makes sure that, in the county as a whole, there are full-time school places for all children from the age of 5 onwards whose parents request places, and decides, with the Governors of individual schools, the catchment area for the school, the maximum size of a school and the maximum size of each year group.

There is a network of catchment areas for local schools in Leicestershire, and parents living in a school’s catchment area have high priority for places in that school, as long as they apply on time. Because local government reorganisation split Leicestershire, Leicester City and Rutland in 1997, some historic catchment areas now cross county boundaries. For instance there are some villages in Leicestershire for which the catchment school is in Rutland. There are similar cross-boundary catchment arrangements on some parts of the county boundary with Leicester City, and in a few places with other neighbouring counties.

For example:

(i) Leicestershire villages allocated to Leicestershire primary schools and Rutland secondary schools: Hallaton, Tugby, Bringhurst, Drayton, East Norton, Great Easton, Keythorpe Hall, Launde, Loddington, Neville Holt, Skeffington, Stockerston and Medbourne.

(ii) Leicestershire villages allocated to Rutland primary and secondary schools: Knossington, Cold Overton, Owston, Newbold, Horninghold, Withcote and Blaston.

For Melton Mowbray and the surrounding area there is one catchment area for the three Melton secondary school.

The Children and Young People’s Service, is responsible for:

Parents are responsible for:

All admissions to community and voluntary controlled schools are the responsibility of the Children and Young People’s Service and not the schools themselves.

 

There is a different arrangement for Church of England and Roman Catholic Voluntary Aided Schools and for Foundation Schools. Enquiries concerning these schools should be made direct to the Headteacher. Admissions to these schools are the responsibility of the Governors, but an application for a place must be made on the form you receive from your local authority.

 

Each school caters as far as possible for the needs of the families in its neighbourhood. The Headteacher of the school will be pleased to discuss what the school can offer your child and you can get advice on admissions from the Allocations Section, County Hall, Tel: 0116 305 6684.

When your child transfers from primary to secondary school, you must apply for a place in a secondary school. The Headteacher or the Allocations Section will be able to give you advice on admission.

Each school works closely with the other schools in the area to help pupils to transfer easily on to the next stage.