Community school

Beaumont Leys School

Mixed · ages 11–16 · no sixth formLeicester, East Midlands · Leicester LE4 0FLSchool website
Pupils on roll
1,062of 1,050 places
Free school meals
33.0%
Year 11 cohort 2025
208
Ofsted
School remains Good, 7 May 2025Read the Ofsted report
What the data says

Beaumont Leys School has no sixth form. Of the 216 pupils who finished Year 11 there in 2023, 28% moved to a sixth form college, 49% to a further education college and 4% started an apprenticeship.

Food Preparation and Nutrition is unusually popular at GCSE: 22% of the year group took it, against 8% of pupils across England.

GCSE results in 2025 were in line with the national picture: Attainment 8 of 45.2 against 46.1 across England and 45.5 in Leicester, with 39% of pupils getting grade 5 or above in both English and maths (England 45%).

As an 11–16 school, Beaumont Leys School is judged on where pupils go at 16 rather than on A level results.

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.

Beaumont Leys School
Leicester
England
School sixth formSixth form collegeFurther education collegeOther educationApprenticeshipEmploymentNo sustained destination
MeasureBeaumont Leys SchoolLeicesterEngland
Pupils in the cohort2164,326607,348
Any sustained destination88%89%92%
Stayed in education83%87%86%
— school sixth form5%18%34%
— sixth form college28%38%13%
— further education college49%29%37%
— other education1%2%2%
Apprenticeship4%1%3%
Employment1%1%3%
No sustained destination5%6%6%
Destination unknown6%5%3%

GCSE results 2025

MeasureBeaumont Leys SchoolLeicesterEngland
Attainment 8 (average points per pupil)45.245.546.1
Grade 5 or above in English and maths39%43%45%
Grade 4 or above in English and maths64%63%65%
Entered the English Baccalaureate subjects17%40%41%
EBacc average point score3.844.024.09
Disadvantaged pupils in the cohort33%32%28%
Attainment 8 — disadvantaged pupils34.235.734.9
Attainment 8 — other pupils50.550.150.4
Pupils with high prior attainment (Key Stage 2)
English as an additional language29%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
Mathematics211100%88%17%22%65%
English Language207100%89%11%20%66%
English Literature20599%86%9%21%73%
Religious Studies18087%31%24%32%72%
Combined Science17182%65%6%9%58%
Geography11455%41%15%25%56%
History6029%41%23%26%60%
Food Preparation and Nutrition4522%8%9%21%49%
Fine Art4120%9%17%28%63%
Design and Technology3919%11%5%23%64%
Biology3316%23%39%45%85%
French3115%18%26%29%87%
Spanish2914%19%55%27%86%
Physics2813%23%43%46%93%
Computer Science2813%13%36%30%93%
Chemistry2813%23%46%47%100%
Business Studies2713%18%4%20%63%
Music147%5%0%33%57%
Polish42%1%84%
Italian21%0%53%
Gujarati10%0%57%

Technical awards and other Key Stage 4 qualifications

SubjectEntriesShare of cohortEngland
Sports Studies51
Health Studies47
Computer Appreciation / Introduction25
Speech and Drama15

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.