Community school

Moat Community College

Mixed · ages 11–16 · no sixth formLeicester, East Midlands · Leicester LE2 0TUSchool website
Pupils on roll
1,091of 1,050 places
Free school meals
39.8%
Year 11 cohort 2025
213
Ofsted
School remains Good, 8 March 2023Read the Ofsted report
What the data says

Moat Community College has no sixth form. Of the 214 pupils who finished Year 11 there in 2023, 51% moved to a sixth form college, 30% to a further education college and none started an apprenticeship.

Sixth form colleges are the main next step: 51% of leavers went to one, roughly three times the England rate of 13%.

Religious Studies is unusually popular at GCSE: 79% of the year group took it, against 31% of pupils across England.

GCSE results in 2025 were in line with the national picture: Attainment 8 of 44.6 against 46.1 across England and 45.5 in Leicester, with 34% 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.

Moat Community College
Leicester
England
School sixth formSixth form collegeFurther education collegeOther educationApprenticeshipEmploymentNo sustained destination
MeasureMoat Community CollegeLeicesterEngland
Pupils in the cohort2144,326607,348
Any sustained destination89%89%92%
Stayed in education89%87%86%
— school sixth form7%18%34%
— sixth form college51%38%13%
— further education college30%29%37%
— other education2%2%
Apprenticeship0%1%3%
Employment1%3%
No sustained destination7%6%6%
Destination unknown4%5%3%

GCSE results 2025

MeasureMoat Community CollegeLeicesterEngland
Attainment 8 (average points per pupil)44.645.546.1
Grade 5 or above in English and maths34%43%45%
Grade 4 or above in English and maths59%63%65%
Entered the English Baccalaureate subjects70%40%41%
EBacc average point score4.124.024.09
Disadvantaged pupils in the cohort34%32%28%
Attainment 8 — disadvantaged pupils42.935.734.9
Attainment 8 — other pupils45.550.150.4
Pupils with high prior attainment (Key Stage 2)
English as an additional language91%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
Mathematics21099%88%13%22%70%
English Language20496%89%12%20%67%
Combined Science20194%65%7%9%60%
English Literature19792%86%17%21%75%
Religious Studies16979%31%30%32%85%
History10750%41%10%26%55%
Geography8741%41%16%25%62%
French7736%18%13%29%84%
Spanish7435%19%15%27%80%
Business Studies6531%18%6%20%54%
Computer Science4421%13%20%30%59%
Design and Technology3115%11%13%23%48%
Citizenship Studies2813%3%18%19%68%
Fine Art2713%9%19%28%78%
Psychology2612%3%12%22%54%
Sociology209%4%5%21%50%
Chemistry84%23%50%47%100%
Biology84%23%50%45%100%
Physics84%23%50%46%88%
Italian21%0%53%
Turkish10%0%71%

Technical awards and other Key Stage 4 qualifications

SubjectEntriesShare of cohortEngland
Engineering Studies55
Computer Appreciation / Introduction39
Hospitality / Catering Studies34
Health Studies30
Sports Studies16

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.