Schools in Leicester

The East Midlands' dominant city, Leicester sits on the River Soar in central Leicestershire, its origins reaching back through Anglo-Saxon settlement and Viking occupation to the Roman town of Ratae Corieltauvorum, whose Jewry Wall stands as one of the largest pieces of Roman civil masonry still upright in Britain. Humberstone and the West End extend the residential canvas eastward and westward, completing a city of some 388,000 people that has ranked consistently among the best places to live and work in the East Midlands.

Stoneygate, the leafy Victorian suburb curving south from the city centre, is widely regarded as one of Leicester's most school-competitive postcodes for state places, while Oadby draws families targeting secondary options in the adjacent borough. Loughborough adds further reach for county-wide school searches. East Midlands Railway links the city to London St Pancras in around an hour, with regional services reaching Derby, Nottingham, and Peterborough.