Leicester College
Leicester College is a further education in Leicester for boys and girls aged 16 to 99.
Welford Road, Leicester, LE2 7LW0116 224 2000Mr Shabir Ismail principalAll details
Ofsted
Ofsted hasn't published an inspection for this school yet.
Results
A level and sixth-form results, 2025
2,049 students finished sixth-form courses.
All sixth-form measures, year by year
| Measure | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2019 | 2018 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Students | 2,049 | 1,991 | 1,903 | 1,923 | 3,605 | 3,575 |
| Average A level points per entryA level APS per entry | – | – | – | – | 20.00 | – |
| Average A level grade | – | – | z | z | D | – |
| Applied general courses: points per entry | 23.62 | 23.95 | 24.61 | 27.17 | – | – |
| T levels: points per entry | 23.05 | 22.34 | 25.10 | 29.01 | – | – |
Getting a place
Admissions policy not published.
Each council publishes its own figures on how many families applied and how far away the last child to get a place lived. We are adding councils one at a time. If you have a link to Leicester council's admissions booklet, send it to us.
Who goes here
Who the school teaches, from the latest school census.
What pupils do next
After sixth form
Where the 1,771 pupils who left in 2022/23 were a year later.
Among pupils from low-income families it was 57%, compared with 72% for everyone else.
Where the ones heading for university went
Among students from low-income families, 36% went on to degree-level study or training and 0% to a top-third university.
Earlier years
| Destination | 2022/23 leavers | 2021/22 leavers | 2020/21 leavers | 2019/20 leavers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Still in education, work or training | 68% | 69% | 74% | – |
| Education | 23% | 25% | 30% | – |
| Apprenticeship | 11% | 8% | 10% | 2% |
| Work | 33% | 36% | 35% | – |
| Not in education, work or training | 24% | 23% | 20% | – |
The area around the school
Crime figures come from police.uk. The police record each crime at the nearest of a fixed set of map points rather than the exact spot, so “within 500 m” is only rough. House prices are from HM Land Registry sales nearby over the last two years.
Nearby schools
The closest schools, nearest first. Hover over a row to see it on the map.
| School | Type | Distance | Pupils | Ofsted | Score | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hazel Community Primary School | Council | 280 m | 410 | Report card 2026 | 65 | Compare |
| The Children's Hospital School | Foundation special school | 570 m | 112 | Outstanding 2023 | – | Compare |
| University of Leicester | Higher education institutions | 640 m | – | Not inspected | – | Compare |
| WQE and Regent College Group | Further education | 780 m | – | Not inspected | – | Compare |
| Leicester Therapeutic School | Independent | 810 m | – | Not inspected | – | Compare |
| Beauchamp City Sixth Form | Free schools 16 to 19 | 960 m | 1,041 | Not inspected | – | Compare |
| Avicenna School | Independent | 980 m | 27 | Not inspected | – | Compare |
| De Montfort University | Higher education institutions | 0.7 miles | – | Not inspected | – | Compare |
Questions parents ask
Is Leicester College a good school?
We don't have enough published data to score Leicester College yet.
How many pupils does Leicester College have?
The number of pupils is not published.
These answers come straight from the figures on this page and update when new data comes out.
Contact and details
- Address
- Welford Road, Leicester, LE2 7LW
- Telephone
- 0116 224 2000
- Principal
- Mr Shabir Ismail
- Type of school
- Further education (Further education, colleges)
- Phase
- College, ages 16-99
- Gender
- Mixed
- Local authority
- Leicester
- Ward
- Saffron
- Constituency
- Leicester South
- Setting
- Urban: Nearer to a major town or city
- URN
- 131863 · LAESTAB 8568008 · UKPRN 10003867
- Formerly
- Charles Keene College of Further Education, Leicester South Fields College
Where these figures come from
- School details: Department for Education, Get Information About Schools, refreshed daily (this page rebuilt 13 September 2026).
- Inspections: Ofsted management information, monthly; latest publication in our data 27 August 2026.
- Neighbourhood: police.uk street-level crime, HM Land Registry price paid data, NaPTAN bus stops, English Indices of Deprivation 2025.
- All under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Full list and update calendar.