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Living in Hinckley with children

Hinckley, Leicestershire and Warwickshire. What the published figures say about its schools, its homes and daily life, each with its source and date. 50,729 people in 22,363 households; 27.1% of households have dependent children (Census 2021 (ONS, via NOMIS), summed over the town's output areas).

16schools in Hinckley
£248ktypical semi, 12 months
75crimes a year per 1,000 people
88%gigabit broadband

Schools

16 schools: 13 state primary, 3 state secondary
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Primary: expected standard, 2025 results (DfE) · red mark: Leicestershire 63%ResultOfsted
1Saint Peter's Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary AcademyPrimary · Top 14% (28/214) · 80%School remains Good
2Hinckley Parks Primary SchoolPrimary · Top 23% (49/214) · 74%Ofsted report card
3Sharnford Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary · Top 25% (52/214) · 73%Ofsted report card
4Sketchley Hill Primary School BurbagePrimary · Top 28% (58/214) · 72%Good
5Burbage Junior SchoolPrimary · Top 28% (59/214) · 71%Good
6Richmond Primary SchoolPrimary · (112/214) · 63%Good
7Westfield Junior SchoolPrimary · (125/214) · 59%Good
Secondary: attainment 8, 2026 results (DfE) · red mark: Leicestershire 47.0ResultOfsted
1Hastings High SchoolSecondary · Top 17% (7/43) · 54.3School remains Good
2Redmoor AcademySecondary · Top 42% (18/43) · 47.6Ofsted report card
3The Hinckley SchoolSecondary · (32/43) · 42.2Good
Every school in Hinckley, with inspection, league band and the last place offered

State primary schools (13)

SchoolInspectionLeague rankLast place offered
Saint Peter's Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary AcademySchool remains GoodTop 14% (28/214) in Leicestershire—
Hinckley Parks Primary SchoolOfsted report cardTop 23% (49/214) in Leicestershire—
Sharnford Church of England Primary SchoolOfsted report cardTop 25% (52/214) in Leicestershire—
Sketchley Hill Primary School BurbageGoodTop 28% (58/214) in Leicestershire—
Burbage Junior SchoolGoodTop 28% (59/214) in Leicestershire—
Richmond Primary SchoolGood(112/214) in Leicestershire—
Westfield Junior SchoolGood(125/214) in Leicestershire—
St Mary's Church of England Primary School, HinckleyGood(145/214) in Leicestershire—
Wolvey CofE Primary SchoolGood(130/166) in Warwickshire4.865 miles (2025)
Battling Brook Primary SchoolGood(199/214) in Leicestershire—
Burbage Church of England Infant SchoolSchool remains Good——
Hollycroft Primary SchoolOfsted report card——
Westfield Infant SchoolGood——

State secondary schools (3)

SchoolInspectionLeague rankLast place offered
Hastings High SchoolSchool remains GoodTop 17% (7/43) in Leicestershire—
Redmoor AcademyOfsted report cardTop 42% (18/43) in Leicestershire—
The Hinckley SchoolGood(32/43) in Leicestershire—

Rank: the school's place among its council's schools of the same phase, from three years of DfE results (kinplace's league table, how it is worked out); schools with hidden or no results get none. Inspections: Ofsted and ISI. Last place offered: the council's offer-day figures. School register: DfE Get Information about Schools, updated 17 October 2026.

Homes and prices

Typical sale, last 12 months (Land Registry)
Detached£370,000
Semi-detached£248,000
Terraced£195,000
Flat or maisonette£130,000

The middle sale of each type, September 2025 to August 2026: half sold for more, half for less (206 detached, 288 semi-detached, 155 terraced, 52 flat or maisonette sales). Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, standard sales inside the ONS built-up area outline of Hinckley. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

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Getting around

Stops and stations (NaPTAN), and broadband (Ofcom)
1railway station within 2 km: Hinckley Rail Station (0.4 miles)
78bus stops within 1 km of the town centre

Source: DfT, NaPTAN (National Public Transport Access Nodes). Straight-line distances.

Gigabit broadband can be ordered at 88% of premises, and superfast (30 Mbit/s) at 98%, on average across the 1,004 postcodes in LE10. Check the postcode you are looking at: it can differ street by street.

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, July 2025, fixed broadband coverage by postcode (an average of postcodes, not of homes).

Safety and environment

The town centre; addresses vary
75.2 a year per 1,000 peopleCrimeInside the town's outline, September 2025 to August 2026. The most common: violent crime, anti social behaviour, criminal damage arson. Source: data.police.uk, street-level crime inside the ONS built-up area outline; people from Census 2021. A town centre with shops and pubs records more crime per resident than a suburb.
Flood zone 1FloodAt the town centre, the area is in flood zone 1 for rivers and the sea on the Environment Agency's Flood Map for Planning (not in zone 2 or 3, the lowest of the three). Surface-water risk: we don't hold that map, so it is unknown here. One point says little about a whole town, and the zones describe the area, not a building: check the address on the Environment Agency's long-term flood risk service.Source: Environment Agency, Flood Map for Planning (Rivers and Sea), read from its open download. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. Open Government Licence v3.0.
NO₂ 11.0AirAt the town centre, an annual mean on DEFRA's 1 km map: nitrogen dioxide 11.0 µg/m³ (2024); PM2.5 7.3 µg/m³ (2024); PM10 11.7 µg/m³ (2024). A background figure, not the air beside a busy road. Source: DEFRA, Pollution Climate Mapping (PCM) 1 km background maps.

Childcare

Ofsted early years register; published prices
22registered nurseries and pre-schools
£68 to £88a day, where 6 publish a day rate (the middle £76)

What Ofsted found: 1 outstanding; 16 good, or expected standard; 5 not inspected yet. A typical nursery place in this region costs about £6.88 an hour for a two-year-old.

All of them: 22 in Leicestershire.

Sources: Ofsted, Childcare providers and inspections; each nursery's own fees page, read by 16 October 2026; Coram Family and Childcare, Childcare Survey 2026: average nursery price for 50 hours a week after the working-parent entitlement (paying for 20 hours), by region.

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Key dates, Leicestershire

The next dates for families applying
Secondary applications close31 Oct 2026
Primary applications close15 Jan 2027
Secondary offer day1 Mar 2027

Application deadlines and offer days: Leicestershire · Warwickshire.

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