Unstone St Mary's Nursery & Infant School
Primary · Community school · Ages 3–7 · Dronfield, Derbyshire
Unstone St Mary's Nursery & Infant School is a primary school in Dronfield, Derbyshire for ages 3–7 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 14 May 2024.
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Catchment area for Unstone St Mary's Nursery & Infant School
- The council’s catchment or priority area for this school, on the map
- Earlier years of applications and offers
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Key facts
- Address
- Crow Lane, Unstone, Dronfield, S18 4AL
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–7
- Council
- Derbyshire
- Pupils on roll
- 50 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 32% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 17.8
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 14 May 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils are happy as they arrive at Unstone St Mary’s Nursery and Infant School.”
- “Children in the early years give their parents a cheery wave as they head down ‘Ladybird Lane’ into their classroom.”
- “Well-established routines help pupils to feel safe and secure.”
To improve
- “These checks are in their infancy in foundation subjects.”
- “However, the school has not kept a close enough eye on how well early reading is taught.”
- “There are a small number of occasions when phonics lessons are not delivered with sufficient precision and pure sounds are not consistently used by staff and pupils.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 21 June 2024 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 16 first-preference applications, 17 offers in total, 16 offers to first-preference applicants.
Department for Education, school-level applications and offers, figures on national offer day. Earlier years are in the pass.
Nearby primary schools
Straight-line distance, in Derbyshire.
- Unstone Junior School 0.3 mi No Ofsted grade
- Dronfield Stonelow Junior School 1.3 mi Not judged
- Northfield Junior School 1.3 mi School remains Good
- Holmesdale Infant School 1.4 mi Not judged
- Mary Swanwick Primary School 1.5 mi Good
- Dronfield Infant School 1.5 mi Not judged
- Dronfield Junior School 1.5 mi Not judged
- Lenthall Infant and Nursery School 1.7 mi School remains Good