Alvaston Infant and Nursery School
Primary · Community school · Ages 2–7 · 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 🔒
Alvaston Infant and Nursery School is a primary school in Derby for ages 2–7 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 26 April 2023. Derby has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2026 entry.
Alvaston Infant and Nursery 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
- For Reception 2026, every applicant was offered a place, as at 46 of the 61 other Derby primary schools with a published Reception 2026 outcome.
- For Reception 2026, there were 61 first-choice applications for 63 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 2 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- For Reception 2026, 24 of the 137 applications (18%) came from families living outside Derby, and 10 offers went to them.
- 27% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 43.9% across the 8 nearest primary schools in Derby.
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
- Elvaston Lane, Alvaston, Derby, DE24 0PU
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 2–7
- Council
- Derby
- Pupils on roll
- 348 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 27% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 22.7
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 26 April 2023
Strengths
- “This is a happy and friendly school where children thrive.”
- “Pupils are well prepared for their next steps in education.”
- “They know who to talk to if they have any worries.”
To improve
- “However, leaders have not determined the most important knowledge pupils need to know and remember in some other subjects.”
- “However, leaders have not ensured that assessment is as well developed in other subjects.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 15 June 2023 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 61 first-preference applications, 63 offers in total, 61 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.
- Alvaston Junior Academy 0.0 mi Requires improvement
- St John Fisher Catholic Voluntary Academy 0.3 mi Good Last distance published
- Oakwood Infant and Nursery School 0.4 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Oakwood Junior School 0.5 mi Good
- Wyndham Spencer Academy 0.6 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Oak Grange Primary School 0.8 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Landau Forte Academy Moorhead 1.0 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Lakeside Primary Academy 1.2 mi Not judged Last distance published