Community school

Crown Hills Community College

Mixed · ages 11–16 · no sixth formLeicester, East Midlands · Leicester LE5 5FTSchool website
Pupils on roll
1,493of 1,254 places
Free school meals
27.1%
Year 11 cohort 2025
288
Ofsted
Inspected, 21 January 2025Read the Ofsted report
What the data says

Crown Hills Community College has no sixth form. Of the 296 pupils who finished Year 11 there in 2023, 64% moved to a sixth form college, 16% to a further education college and 1% started an apprenticeship.

Sixth form colleges are the main next step: 64% of leavers went to one, roughly three times the England rate of 13%.

French is unusually popular at GCSE: 33% of the year group took it, against 18% of pupils across England.

GCSE results in 2025 were in line with the national picture: Attainment 8 of 47.4 against 46.1 across England and 45.5 in Leicester, with 47% of pupils getting grade 5 or above in both English and maths (England 45%).

Where pupils went after Year 11

Destinations of the 2023 Year 11 leavers, measured the following year: the share in a sustained place for at least two terms. Compared with all state-funded schools in Leicester and England.

This school
Leicester
England
School sixth formSixth form collegeFurther education collegeOther educationApprenticeshipEmploymentNo sustained destination
MeasureThis schoolLeicesterEngland
Pupils in the cohort2964,326607,348
Any sustained destination94%89%92%
Stayed in education92%87%86%
— school sixth form12%18%34%
— sixth form college64%38%13%
— further education college16%29%37%
— other education0%2%2%
Apprenticeship1%1%3%
Employment1%3%
No sustained destination4%6%6%
Destination unknown2%5%3%

GCSE results 2025

MeasureThis schoolLeicesterEngland
Attainment 8 (average points per pupil)47.445.546.1
Grade 5 or above in English and maths47%43%45%
Grade 4 or above in English and maths66%63%65%
Entered the English Baccalaureate subjects30%40%41%
EBacc average point score4.094.024.09
Disadvantaged pupils in the cohort26%32%28%
Attainment 8 — disadvantaged pupils42.335.734.9
Attainment 8 — other pupils49.250.150.4
Pupils with high prior attainment (Key Stage 2)
English as an additional language84%55%19%

Progress 8 is not available for 2025 and 2026: these cohorts had no Key Stage 2 tests in 2020 and 2021, so there is no baseline. Attainment 8 shows results without taking pupils’ starting points into account.

Subjects taken at GCSE

Entries in 2025 as a share of the Year 11 cohort, and the share of entries graded 7–9 and 4–9, compared with all entries in England.

SubjectEntriesShare of cohortEnglandGrades 7–9EnglandGrades 4–9
Mathematics28599%88%23%22%69%
English Literature28599%86%18%21%79%
English Language28599%89%19%20%73%
Combined Science23281%65%9%9%50%
Geography16658%41%11%25%50%
History12644%41%24%26%67%
French9433%18%28%29%68%
Citizenship Studies8931%3%8%19%73%
Religious Studies6924%31%23%32%64%
Biology5318%23%53%45%100%
Chemistry5318%23%55%47%100%
Physics5318%23%47%46%96%
3D Design4315%2%2%16%26%
Graphic Communication3713%1%16%23%51%
Food Preparation and Nutrition3412%8%9%21%38%
Textiles3311%2%0%27%24%
Fine Art248%9%13%28%96%
Computer Science217%13%62%30%100%
Physical Education207%11%0%24%60%
Photography176%6%24%19%41%
Music124%5%0%33%17%
Italian52%0%53%
Portuguese10%0%50%
Spanish10%19%27%
Urdu10%1%42%
Arabic10%1%47%
Punjabi10%0%48%

Technical awards and other Key Stage 4 qualifications

SubjectEntriesShare of cohortEngland
Computer Appreciation / Introduction176
Sports Studies53
Speech and Drama27
Dance: General12

Where Crown Hills Community College is

Other secondary schools in Leicester are shown for comparison; darker blue means more Year 11 leavers stayed in education. The last distance at which this school offered places is not yet on file — it comes from Leicester’s allocation statistics.

Other secondary schools in Leicester

Babington Academy

Academy converter · 1,339 pupils

84% stayed in education · Attainment 8 38.0

Sources: Department for Education school and college performance tables 2024/2025 (Key Stage 4 and 16–18 results, subject entries, destination measures for 2023 leavers); Get Information About Schools register as at 19 September 2026; Ofsted management information as at 31 August 2026. Small numbers are suppressed by DfE and shown as “—”. How to read these figures.