Leicester Partnership School
Leicester Partnership School is a pupil referral unit in Leicester for boys and girls aged 11 to 16. It has 54 pupils and room for 160. About 74 in every 100 pupils come from a low-income family, far more than at most schools in England.
Carisbrooke Gardens, Leicester, LE2 3PR0116 303 3281lps.leicester.sch.ukMiss Denise Henderson head teacherAll details
Ofsted
Ofsted hasn't published an inspection for this school yet.
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.
The most common needs among pupils getting extra support: Other difficulty or disability (25), emotional and mental health (22), Moderate learning difficulty (2), Hearing impairment (1), Specific learning difficulty (1).
How the mix of pupils has changed
| Census | 2026 | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils on roll | 54 | 49 | 35 | 30 | 18 | 18 |
| Pupils from low-income familiesFree school meals | 74% | 80% | 60% | 67% | 67% | 61% |
| Pupils learning EnglishEnglish as an additional language | 6% | 8% | 11% | 3% | 6% | 6% |
| Pupils getting extra supportSEN support | – | 18% | 29% | 17% | 17% | 17% |
| Pupils with an EHC planEducation, health and care plans | – | 14% | 6% | 13% | 0% | 6% |
What pupils do next
After GCSEs
Where the 12 pupils who left in 2022/23 were a year later.
Among pupils from low-income families it was 71%, compared with – for everyone else.
Earlier years
| Destination | 2022/23 leavers | 2021/22 leavers | 2020/21 leavers |
|---|---|---|---|
| Still in education, work or training | 67% | 67% | 56% |
| Education | 58% | 67% | 44% |
| Apprenticeship | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| Work | 8% | 0% | 11% |
| Not in education, work or training | 17% | 22% | 0% |
Staff and money
From the government's count of school staff in November 2025 and the school's published accounts.
Money
From the council school accounts, year to March 2025. The per-pupil figures are compared with other primary schools in England that report their accounts the same way.
Reserves are the money left over at the end of the year, kept back for emergencies and big projects. Being in the red year after year is a warning sign. Very large reserves can mean money sitting in the bank instead of being spent on today's pupils. Academy figures are rounded to the nearest £1,000 and include a share of any money the trust holds centrally.
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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| St Thomas More Catholic Voluntary Academy | Academy | 300 m | 274 | Good 2022 | 92 | Compare |
| Overdale Junior School | Academy | 580 m | 489 | Good 2022 | 75 | Compare |
| Overdale Infant School | Academy | 700 m | 352 | No overall grade 2025 | 32 | Compare |
| Avenue Primary School | Council | 850 m | 545 | Not inspected | 62 | Compare |
| Sir Jonathan North Girls' College | Academy | 910 m | 1,115 | No overall grade 2025 | 85 | Compare |
| Leicester High School for Girls | Independent | 960 m | 249 | Not inspected | – | Compare |
| Leicester Islamic Academy | Independent | 990 m | 349 | Not inspected | – | Compare |
| Lancaster Academy | Academy | 0.6 miles | 883 | Good 2024 | 21 | Compare |
Questions parents ask
Is Leicester Partnership School a good school?
We don't have enough published data to score Leicester Partnership School yet.
How many pupils does Leicester Partnership School have?
54 pupils aged 11 to 16 were on the roll in January 2026. It has 160 places, so it is 34% full.
These answers come straight from the figures on this page and update when new data comes out.
Contact and details
- Address
- Carisbrooke Gardens, Leicester, LE2 3PR
- Telephone
- 0116 303 3281
- Website
- www.lps.leicester.sch.uk
- Head Teacher
- Miss Denise Henderson
- Type of school
- Pupil referral unit (Pupil referral unit, local authority maintained schools)
- Phase
- Pupil referral unit / alternative provision, ages 11-16
- Gender
- Mixed
- Local authority
- Leicester
- Ward
- Knighton
- Constituency
- Leicester South
- Setting
- Urban: Nearer to a major town or city
- Opened
- 24 April 2006 (result of amalgamation)
- URN
- 131535 · LAESTAB 8561103 · UKPRN 10016459
- Formerly
- The Key Way Centre, The Coleman Centre
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.
- Pupil characteristics: DfE school census, January 2026.
- Staff: DfE school workforce census, November 2025.
- Pupil premium: DfE allocations and conditions of grant, 2026 to 2027.
- Money: DfE financial benchmarking and insights tool, consistent financial reporting 2024/25.
- 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.