Donisthorpe Primary School
Primary · Swadlincote · DE12 7QF
Ungraded inspection: no current grade
Ofsted's most recent visit was an ungraded inspection; its outcome was “Improved significantly”. Since September 2024 these outcomes no longer confirm a named grade, and the school's last graded inspection is too old to appear in Ofsted's current data file, so SchoolFacts shows no grade rather than guessing. Earlier grades are on the school's Ofsted report page.
Inspected 25 June 2025
Read the Ofsted report ↗At a glance
207 pupils · 99% of 210 capacity
- School type
- Academy converter
- Age range
- 4–11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Free school meals
- 14% of pupils
- English as additional language
- 3.4% of pupils
- SEN support
- 15.6% of pupils
- EHC plan
- 1.9% of pupils
- Website
- www.donisthorpeprimary.org
- URN
- 149269
Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026
1.03 first-choice applications per place29 places offered · 30 first-choice applications · oversubscribed
First-choice applications per place, by entry year
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.
Key stage 2 results (2024/2025)
26 pupils at the end of key stage 2 in 2024/2025
Source: DfE performance tables 2024/2025. “Suppressed” means the DfE withholds figures for very small cohorts.
Attendance (2025/26 autumn term)
Autumn-term absence, DfE pupil absence data. Lower is better.
Staffing
Full-time-equivalent, 2025/26.
Teacher retention (2024/25)
85% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 15% moved to another state school
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
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.