Voluntary aided school

Madani Boys School

Boys · ages 11–16 · no sixth form · MuslimLeicester, East Midlands · Leicester LE5 5LLSchool website
Pupils on roll
450of 450 places
Free school meals
25.8%
Year 11 cohort 2025
88
Ofsted
Improved significantly, 8 May 2025Read the Ofsted report
What the data says

Madani Boys School has no sixth form. Of the 61 pupils who finished Year 11 there in 2023, 46% moved to a sixth form college, 5% to a further education college and none started an apprenticeship.

Sixth form colleges are the main next step: 46% of leavers went to one, roughly three times the England rate of 13%.

Religious Studies is unusually popular at GCSE: 100% of the year group took it, against 31% of pupils across England.

GCSE results in 2025 were above the national picture: Attainment 8 of 52.2 against 46.1 across England and 45.5 in Leicester, with 61% 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.

Madani Boys School
Leicester
England
School sixth formSixth form collegeFurther education collegeOther educationApprenticeshipEmploymentNo sustained destination
MeasureMadani Boys SchoolLeicesterEngland
Pupils in the cohort614,326607,348
Any sustained destination77%89%92%
Stayed in education77%87%86%
— school sixth form26%18%34%
— sixth form college46%38%13%
— further education college5%29%37%
— other education0%2%2%
Apprenticeship0%1%3%
Employment0%1%3%
No sustained destination10%6%6%
Destination unknown13%5%3%

GCSE results 2025

MeasureMadani Boys SchoolLeicesterEngland
Attainment 8 (average points per pupil)52.245.546.1
Grade 5 or above in English and maths61%43%45%
Grade 4 or above in English and maths81%63%65%
Entered the English Baccalaureate subjects43%40%41%
EBacc average point score4.484.024.09
Disadvantaged pupils in the cohort31%32%28%
Attainment 8 — disadvantaged pupils45.835.734.9
Attainment 8 — other pupils55.150.150.4
Pupils with high prior attainment (Key Stage 2)
English as an additional language81%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
Mathematics88100%88%34%22%86%
Religious Studies88100%31%39%32%84%
English Language88100%89%9%20%88%
English Literature88100%86%20%21%84%
Combined Science7181%65%17%9%63%
French4551%18%18%29%51%
Geography3338%41%18%25%64%
Arabic2427%1%17%47%46%
Computer Science2225%13%50%30%95%
Business Studies2225%18%5%20%73%
Design and Technology1719%11%24%23%94%
Chemistry1719%23%53%47%88%
Physics1719%23%53%46%88%
Biology1719%23%53%45%94%
Art and Design1719%7%12%24%94%
History1517%41%20%26%73%
Urdu45%1%42%
Italian11%0%53%
German11%5%33%

Technical awards and other Key Stage 4 qualifications

SubjectEntriesShare of cohortEngland
Sports Studies12

Other secondary schools in Leicester

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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.