Community school · Primary
Ilkeston · DE7 8LQ · Derbyshire
Ages 3–7
Status: Open
0.1 miles away
OpenPrimaryURN 112571
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Community school · Ilkeston · DE7 8DX
Phase
Primary
Age range
Ages 7–11
Pupils
286
Local authority
Derbyshire
Age range
Ages 7–11
05111619
Provision snapshot
Based on official GIAS characteristics
0 / 6
- NurseryNo Nursery Classes
- Sixth formDoes not have a sixth form
- BoardingNo boarders
- Special school
- Independent
- Academy
Local context
How this school sits among open establishments in its area, using official GIAS records. These are counts, not rankings.
Mixed community school (primary), Ages 7–11, in Ilkeston, Derbyshire, 286 pupils on roll. Free school meals: 39.5%.
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Overview
- School type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Age range
- 7–11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Status
- Open
- URN
- 112571
Location
- Address
- Heanor Road
- Postcode
- DE7 8DX
- Town
- Ilkeston
- County
- Derbyshire
- Local authority
- Derbyshire
- District
- Erewash
- Constituency
- Erewash
- Urban/rural
- Urban: Nearer to a major town or city
Size & intake
Pupil numbers and free school meals come from the GIAS school census fields. Capacity fill is calculated when both pupils and capacity are published. Census date: 15 Jan 2026.
- Pupils on roll
- 286
- Boys / girls
- 148 / 138
- School capacity
- 332
- Capacity fill
- 286 / 332 (86%)
- Free school meals
- 39.5%
- FSM pupils
- 113
- Gender
- Mixed
School characteristics
- Nursery provision
- No Nursery Classes
- Sixth form
- Does not have a sixth form
- Boarding
- No boarders
- Special classes
- No Special Classes
- Governance
- Community school
Contact
- Headteacher
- Mrs Caroline Rees
- Telephone
- 01159322424
Official links
Ofsted
Latest inspection outcomes from Ofsted monthly management information. Report-card grades use the current framework where published; older OEIF grades are shown when that is the latest graded inspection.
Headline
Not judged
Inspection date
2024-10-15
- Overall effectiveness
- Not judged
- Quality of education
- Requires improvement
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Good
- Personal development
- Good
- Leadership and management
- Good
- Safeguarding effective
- Yes
Performance
Official school-level results from DfE school and college performance tables. Figures are not rankings — suppressed or unavailable values are omitted.
Key stage 2 (2023/24)
- Expected standard (RWM)
- 49%
- Higher standard (RWM)
- 10%
- Avg scaled score — reading
- 102.0
- Avg scaled score — maths
- 101.0
- Avg scaled score — GPS
- 101.0
Absence
Pupil absence rates from DfE pupil absence in schools in England. Persistent absence means 10% or more of sessions missed; severe absence means 50% or more. Lower figures are better.
Academic year 2023/24
Overall absence
4.7%
Persistent absence
9.3%
Unauthorised
1.0%
- Authorised absence
- 3.7%
- Severe absence (50%+)
- 0.6%
- Enrolments in measure
- 322
Recent years
- 2022/23
- Overall 4.7% · Persistent 8.8%
- 2021/22
- Overall 6.0% · Persistent 15.1%