Portway Infant School
Primary · Community school · Ages 5–7 · Derby
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
Every applicant was offered a place
From Derby City Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2024–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Portway Infant School is a primary school in Derby for ages 5–7 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 20 September 2023. Derby has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2026 entry.
Portway Infant School catchment area: last distance offered
Parents often call this the catchment area: it's how far from the school the last child offered a place lived. It changes every year.
| Entry | Last distance offered |
|---|---|
| Reception 2026 | Every applicant was offered a place |
| Reception 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- Every applicant for a Reception place in 2026 was offered one, as at 46 of the 61 other Derby primary schools with a published Reception 2026 outcome.
- For Reception 2026 there were 36 first-choice applications for 40 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 4 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- 19 of the 108 applications (18%) for Reception 2026 came from families living outside Derby, and 13 offers went to them.
- 20.8% of pupils are eligible for free school meals; the middle figure across the 8 nearest primary schools in Derby is 26.6%.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Derby schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Woodlands Road, Allestree, Derby, DE22 2HE
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 5–7
- Council
- Derby
- Pupils on roll
- 168 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 20.8% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 22.3
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 20 September 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils are proud of their warm and welcoming school.”
- “They appreciate the school’s efforts to care for them and keep them safe.”
- “When they start school, pupils quickly learn the ‘golden rules’ and understand the importance of being, ‘ready, respectful and safe’.”
To improve
- “Sometimes, pupils say that learning is too easy and that they are ready to move on to new learning sooner than they do.”
- “However, information about the impact of these additional sessions is not always used well to make sure that pupils are becoming fluent readers.”
- “However, this information is not always used well to ensure that the learning activities are closely matched to pupils’ needs.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 24 October 2023 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 36 first-preference applications, 40 offers in total, 36 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 Derby.
- Portway Junior School 0.0 mi School remains Good
- Walter Evans Church of England Aided Primary School 0.8 mi School remains Good (Improving) - S5 Next Last distance published
- Lawn Primary School 0.8 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- St Mary's Catholic Voluntary Academy 1.1 mi Good Last distance published
- Markeaton Primary School 1.5 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Beaufort Primary School 1.8 mi Requires improvement Last distance published
- Ashgate Primary School 2.0 mi Good Last distance published
- Breadsall Hill Top Primary School 2.1 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published