Voluntary controlled school · Primary
Belper · DE56 1GY · Derbyshire
Ages 3–11
Status: Open
0.4 miles away
OpenPrimaryURN 112787
Pottery Primary School
Community school · Belper · DE56 1HA
Phase
Primary
Age range
Ages 4–11
Pupils
285
Local authority
Derbyshire
Age range
Ages 4–11
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 4–11, in Belper, Derbyshire, 285 pupils on roll. Free school meals: 24.9%.
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Overview
- School type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Age range
- 4–11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Status
- Open
- URN
- 112787
Location
- Address
- Kilbourne Road
- Postcode
- DE56 1HA
- Town
- Belper
- County
- Derbyshire
- Local authority
- Derbyshire
- District
- Amber Valley
- Constituency
- Mid Derbyshire
- 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
- 285
- Boys / girls
- 145 / 140
- School capacity
- 318
- Capacity fill
- 285 / 318 (90%)
- Free school meals
- 24.9%
- FSM pupils
- 71
- 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
- Mr Darren Hooley
- Telephone
- 01773823383
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
Requires improvement
Inspection date
2023-10-17
- Overall effectiveness
- Requires improvement
- Quality of education
- Requires improvement
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Good
- Personal development
- Good
- Leadership and management
- Requires improvement
- 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)
- 52%
- Higher standard (RWM)
- 4%
- Avg scaled score — reading
- 104.0
- Avg scaled score — maths
- 102.0
- Avg scaled score — GPS
- 100.0
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
5.6%
Persistent absence
15.2%
Unauthorised
1.3%
- Authorised absence
- 4.4%
- Severe absence (50%+)
- 1.1%
- Enrolments in measure
- 276
Recent years
- 2022/23
- Overall 5.1% · Persistent 10.4%
- 2021/22
- Overall 6.1% · Persistent 14.9%