Cantrell Primary and Nursery School
Primary · Nottingham · NG6 9HJ
Data updated
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.
Ofsted placed this school in a statutory category of concern, serious weaknesses, at the inspection of 26 March 2024. It stands until a later inspection lifts it.
Inspected 26 March 2024
Read the Ofsted report ↗At a glance
381 pupils · 83% of 460 capacity (January 2026 census)
- School type
- Academy sponsor led
- Age range
- 3–11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Free school meals
- 35.5% of pupils (January 2026)
- Nursery
- Yes
- URN
- 151545
In figures
For September 2026 entry, 30 families named it first for 31 Reception places, 0.97 first choices per place. Ofsted last graded it Inadequate on 26 March 2024, under the framework used before November 2025. In the 2025/26 autumn and spring terms its pupils missed 6.5% of sessions, against 6.6% across England.
Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026
0.97 first-choice applications per place31 places offered · 30 first-choice applications · roughly balanced
Source: DfE applications and offers on national offer day · how demand is measured
Compare admissions across the area: Nottingham school admissions · the wider Nottingham authority
Key stage 2 results (2024/2025)
no data
no data
no data
no data
Source: DfE performance tables 2024/2025 · what “suppressed” means
Pupils by ethnicity (January 2026)
White British 58% (Nottingham 34%, England 60%) · Black African 11% (Nottingham 12%, England 5%) · Mixed White and Black Caribbean 8% (Nottingham 6%, England 2%) · Any other White background 8% (Nottingham 7%, England 7%) · Any other Asian background 3% (Nottingham 4%, England 2%) · Mixed White and Asian 3% (Nottingham 2%, England 2%) · Asian Indian 2% (Nottingham 5%, England 4%) · Asian Pakistani 2% (Nottingham 11%, England 5%) · Any other ethnic group 2% (Nottingham 5%, England 3%) · Any other Mixed background 1% (Nottingham 5%, England 3%) · Black Caribbean 1% (Nottingham 2%, England 1%) · Mixed White and Black African 1% (Nottingham 2%, England 1%) · other groups together 1%
Source: DfE schools, pupils and their characteristics, January 2026 census · how to read these figures
Attendance (2025/26 autumn and spring terms)
Suspensions and permanent exclusions (2024/25)
0 permanent exclusions · England, primary schools: 2.47 suspensions and 0.03 permanent exclusions per 100 pupils · Nottingham: 2.95 suspensions and 0.05 permanent exclusions per 100 pupils
Source: DfE pupil absence data, autumn and spring terms, and DfE suspensions and permanent exclusions, school-level file · how absence is measured · how to read exclusions
Staffing
Full-time-equivalent, 2025/26.
Vacancies (November 2025)
0% of teaching posts vacant, 0% filled temporarily · England, primary academies: 0.3% vacant, 0.32% temporary
Teacher pay (November 2025)
Mean salary of full-time qualified teachers £50,228; 19% on the leadership pay range · England, primary schools: £50,856, 17.3%
Source: DfE School Workforce Census · how these figures are counted
The area around the school
- Child poverty (IDACI)
- 3/10more deprived than most of England
- Overall deprivation (IMD)
- 3/10more deprived than most of England
| Census 2021 | This area | England |
|---|---|---|
| Adults with a degree or higher | 20.9% | 33.9% |
| Adults with no qualifications | 27.5% | 18.1% |
| In managerial or professional work | 23.2% | 33.2% |
| Households deprived in two or more ways | 25.7% | 18.1% |
| Residents in very good health | 40.1% | 48.5% |
| Homes owned by the occupier | 65.4% | 62.3% |
| Social housing | 13% | 17.1% |
| Privately rented | 21.5% | 20.5% |
| Detached houses | 14.4% | 22.9% |
| Flats | 19% | 22.2% |
| Homes with four or more bedrooms | 7.9% | 21.1% |
| Households with no car or van | 34.9% | 23.5% |
These figures describe the area, not the pupils. Source: Census 2021 (ONS) and English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (MHCLG) for small area E01013888 · how to read area figures
What homes cost nearby
- Median sale price
- £163,000346 sales within 1 km, January 2024 to September 2026
- Typical range
- £139,000–£197,000the middle half of sales
- England median
- £300,000all sales over the same period
Homes around this school are cheaper than three quarters of school neighbourhoods in England, comparing the median within 1 km across every state school.
Source: HM Land Registry sales within 1 km since January 2024 · how sales are counted. 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
- 8an urban school averages 2.0
- Collisions at school-run times
- 10an urban school averages 5.7
- All reported collisions
- 53an urban school averages 30.5
- Of those, serious or fatal
- 13an urban school averages 6.1
A high count usually reflects traffic, not an unsafe school. Source: DfT road casualty statistics (STATS19), collisions within 500 m, 2021–2025 · what is counted