Graded inspection · Jun 2025 Previous framework
- Quality of education
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Personal development
- Leadership and management
This schoolOther primary schools in Derbyshire
What did Ofsted find?
Ofsted data to 30 September 2026| Area | Outstanding | Good | Requires improvement | Inadequate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quality of education | Good | |||
| Behaviour and attitudes | Good | |||
| Personal development | Good | |||
| Leadership and management | Good | |||
| Early years provision | Good |
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About these grades
Ofsted's report cards (from November 2025) grade each area on five steps and give no overall grade. Earlier grades come from a different framework; Ofsted says the two cannot be compared, so they are never converted here. Ofsted: "We normally inspect schools every 4 years or at any time if we have concerns." Methodology.
How hard is it to get a place?
DfE · Sept 2026 entry16 applications · 11 places offered · 11 named it first
- 2026 1.5; Derbyshire median median 2.0
- 2025 2.0; Derbyshire median median 2.1; as the previous school
- 2024 2.4; Derbyshire median median 2.1; as the previous school
- 2023 1.9; Derbyshire median median 2.2; as the previous school
- 2022 3.2; Derbyshire median median 2.2; as the previous school
- 2021 6.0; Derbyshire median median 2.2; as the previous school
- 2020 2.4; Derbyshire median median 2.2; as the previous school
- 2019 3.3; Derbyshire median median 2.1; as the previous school
- 2018 2.4; Derbyshire median median 2.2; as the previous school
- 2017 2.1; Derbyshire median median 2.2; as the previous school
- 2016 3.2; Derbyshire median median 2.1; as the previous school
- 2015 2.0; Derbyshire median median 2.1; as the previous school
- 2014 2.2; Derbyshire median median 2.1; as the previous school
- This school
- Derbyshire median
Dashed bars: as Arkwright Primary School (URN 112632), the previous school.
Reception applications for September 2027 close 15 January 2027, through your council
How this is measured
Applications per place: every application naming the school at any preference, divided by places offered on National Offer Day. It is not your chance of a place. Methodology.
| Entry | Places | Applications | Per place | First preferences | First-pref. ratio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2026 | 11 | 16 | 1.5 | 11 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2025 * | 12 | 24 | 2.0 | 12 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2024 * | 7 | 17 | 2.4 | 7 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2023 * | 15 | 29 | 1.9 | 16 | 1.07 |
| Sep 2022 * | 10 | 32 | 3.2 | 9 | 0.90 |
| Sep 2021 * | 5 | 30 | 6.0 | 5 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2020 * | 16 | 38 | 2.4 | 16 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2019 * | 9 | 30 | 3.3 | 8 | 0.89 |
| Sep 2018 * | 13 | 31 | 2.4 | 13 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2017 * | 16 | 33 | 2.1 | 14 | 0.88 |
| Sep 2016 * | 9 | 29 | 3.2 | 9 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2015 * | 11 | 22 | 2.0 | 10 | 0.91 |
| Sep 2014 * | 14 | 31 | 2.2 | 14 | 1.00 |
Schools nearby
The 8 nearest primary schools in a straight line, in any local authority
- Arkwright Primary SchoolThis schoolThis schoolGraded · no overall grade20251.5applications per place
- 1.9 km · DerbyshireGood20221.8applications per place 77%met the SATs standard
- 1.9 km · DerbyshireGood20221.6applications per place
- 2.1 km · DerbyshireGood20233.2applications per place
- 2.2 km · Derbyshire20261.9applications per place 66%met the SATs standard
- 2.7 km · DerbyshireRemains Good20231.6applications per place 65%met the SATs standard
- 2.8 km · DerbyshireGood20231.5applications per place 33%met the SATs standard
- 3.0 km · DerbyshireRemains Good · improving20242.1applications per place 66%met the SATs standard
- 3.1 km · DerbyshireGood202356%met the SATs standard
- Exceptional
- Strong standard
- Expected standard
- Needs attention
- Urgent improvement
- Does not apply
Eight dots, one per area: inclusion, curriculum, achievement, attendance, personal development, early years, post-16, leadership. Colours follow Ofsted's report card scale; Schoolfile is independent of Ofsted.
School details
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- URN · DfE number
- 152133 · 830/2245
- Capacity
- 120 pupils · 99 on roll
- Free school meals
- 39.4% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Nursery
- Has nursery classes
- Opened
- 1 November 2025
- Replaced
- Arkwright Primary School (URN 112632)
- Address
- School Lane, Arkwright Town, Chesterfield, S44 5BZ
- Local authority
- Derbyshire · North East Derbyshire
Data last changed 3 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources