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Derby St Chad's CofE Nursery and Infant School

Primary · Derby · DE23 6WR

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Good

Graded inspection under the pre-November 2025 system

This is an overall-effectiveness grade from the previous inspection framework. The school has not yet had a report-card inspection.

Quality of education: GoodBehaviour & attitudes: GoodPersonal development: OutstandingLeadership & management: GoodSafeguarding effective: Yes

Inspected 13 June 2023

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At a glance

141 pupils · 118% of 120 capacity (over capacity)

School type
Academy converter
Age range
2–7
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
Church of England
Free school meals
51.9% of pupils
English as additional language
92.5% of pupils
SEN support
16.8% of pupils
EHC plan
4.3% of pupils
Nursery
Yes
Website
www.stchads.derby.sch.uk/
URN
146575

Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026

0.79 first-choice applications per place

14 places offered · 11 first-choice applications · usually has places

First-choice applications per place, by entry year

19/20
20/21
21/22
22/23
23/24
24/25
25/26
26/27

Applications and offers on national offer day, DfE. A ratio above 1.00 means more families named this school first choice than there were places.

Admissions cutoff distance: Reception

Every applicant was offered a place for 2026 entry, so distance was not needed to decide places.

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Cutoff distances as published by the local authority. Siblings and other priority groups are offered places first; cutoffs move year to year.

Attendance (2025/26 autumn term)

Sessions missed (overall absence)
8.8%
England 6.5%
Pupils missing 10%+ of sessions (persistent absence)
28.6%
England 18.1%

Autumn-term absence, DfE pupil absence data. Lower is better.

Staffing

Pupils per qualified teacher
18.3
England 18.5

Full-time-equivalent, 2025/26.

Teacher retention (2024/25)

100% of teachers stayed at the school the following year

School Workforce Census, DfE. The ratio counts full-time-equivalent qualified teachers; retention follows teachers in post one November to the next. Open Government Licence v3.0.

Spending per pupil

This school£8,762
Typical primary school£6,959

Total expenditure ÷ pupils, academy finance return (DfE Schools Financial Benchmarking, latest year). Higher spending is not a measure of quality. It often reflects greater pupil need or a smaller school. Open Government Licence v3.0.

Inspection history since 2015

Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.

The area around the school

Child poverty (IDACI)
2/10among the most deprived fifth of England
Overall deprivation (IMD)
1/10among the most deprived tenth of England

English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (MHCLG), decile of the small area the school stands in: 1 is the most deprived tenth of England, 10 the least. IDACI counts only children in low-income families, which is the measure closest to the intake a school is likely to draw on.

Census 2021This areaEngland
Adults with a degree or higher26.3%33.9%
Adults with no qualifications31.3%18.1%
In managerial or professional work19.4%33.2%
Households deprived in two or more ways28.5%18.1%
Residents in very good health48.3%48.5%
Homes owned by the occupier55%62.3%
Social housing7.9%17.1%
Privately rented37.1%20.5%
Detached houses14.5%22.9%
Flats17.5%22.2%
Homes with four or more bedrooms34.7%21.1%
Households with no car or van32.6%23.5%

Census 2021 (ONS) for statistical area E01013483 (a lower layer super output area), the neighbourhood of roughly 1,528 adults that the school stands in. These figures describe the area, not the pupils. Children travel in from further away, and for selective, faith and some other schools usually much further. Open Government Licence v3.0.

What homes cost nearby

Median sale price
£145,000431 sales within 1 km, January 2024 to July 2026
Typical range
£120,000–£185,500the middle half of sales
England median
£300,000all sales over the same period
Detached (22)£273,000
Semi-detached (55)£195,000
Terraced (271)£135,000
Flat (83)£166,500

Homes around this school are among the cheapest tenth of school neighbourhoods in England, comparing the median within 1 km across every state school.

Every residential sale registered with HM Land Registry within 1 km of the school (straight line) since January 2024, market sales of houses and flats only. A sale is dated by completion and registered weeks later, so the most recent months are incomplete. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Postcodes located with OS Code-Point Open: contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026; contains Royal Mail data © Royal Mail copyright and database right 2026; contains National Statistics data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Roads around the school

Child pedestrian casualties
9an urban school averages 2.0
Collisions at school-run times
19an urban school averages 5.8
All reported collisions
122an urban school averages 30.6
Of those, serious or fatal
13an urban school averages 6.1

Every collision reported to the police within 500 m of the school in 2021–2025, from the Department for Transport's road casualty statistics (STATS19). "Child pedestrians" counts casualties aged under 16 on foot; "school-run times" means weekdays 07:30–09:00 and 15:00–16:30 outside August. A high count usually says the school sits on or near a busy road, not that the school is unsafe: counts rise with traffic and with how built-up an area is, which is why the comparison is with other urban schools. Distances are straight-line from the school's recorded position. Open Government Licence v3.0.

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