Shelton Infant School
Primary · Community school · Ages 3–7 · 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 🔒
Shelton Infant School is a primary school in Derby for ages 3–7 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 14 May 2024. Derby has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2026 entry.
Shelton 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 Reception 2026 applicant was offered a place, as at 46 of the 61 other Derby primary schools with a published Reception 2026 outcome.
- There were 49 first-choice applications for 52 Reception 2026 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 3 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- Free school meals eligibility is 28.4% and pupils per teacher 21.1, against middle figures of 46.3% and 19.4 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
- Carlton Avenue, Shelton Lock, Derby, DE24 9EJ
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–7
- Council
- Derby
- Pupils on roll
- 194 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 28.4% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 21.1
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 14 May 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils enjoy coming to school.”
- “Pupils are very respectful towards each other.”
- “As one pupil said, ‘Everyone is unique in their own way.”
To improve
- “However, they can make too many mistakes in their writing.”
- “Moreover, mistakes are sometimes repeated.”
- “However, in some other subjects, strategies used to help pupils recall key knowledge are not as effective as they could be.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 24 June 2024 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 49 first-preference applications, 52 offers in total, 49 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.
- Shelton Junior School 0.0 mi No Ofsted grade
- Allenton Primary School 0.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Landau Forte Academy Moorhead 0.7 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Homefields Primary School 0.8 mi Good Last distance published
- Chellaston Junior School 0.9 mi School remains Good
- Oak Grange Primary School 1.0 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Chellaston Infant School 1.0 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Oakwood Junior School 1.1 mi Good