Ridgeway Infant School
Primary · Community school · Ages 4–7 · 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 🔒
Ridgeway Infant School is a primary school in Derby for ages 4–7 (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.
Ridgeway 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
- For Reception 2026, every applicant was offered a place, as was the case at 46 of the 61 other Derby primary schools with a published Reception 2026 outcome.
- For Reception 2026, 75 first-choice applications came for 80 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 5 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- The school has 21.7 pupils per teacher, against a middle figure of 23.4 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
- Uplands Avenue, Littleover, Derby, DE23 1GG
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–7
- Council
- Derby
- Pupils on roll
- 229 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 23.6% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 21.7
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 26 April 2023
Strengths
- “Leaders have established a genuine sense of community at this school.”
- “Parents and carers are warmly welcomed, with events such as the termly ‘tea and toast’ breakfast sessions.”
- “Staff make breakfast for them and engage with families.”
To improve
- “The exception to this, during the previous academic year, was in writing.”
- “However, in a few subjects, teachers are not checking what pupils can remember well enough.”
- “However, despite their enjoyment in attending the school, too many pupils are persistently absent.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 21 June 2023 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 75 first-preference applications, 80 offers in total, 75 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.
- Gayton Junior School 0.0 mi School remains Good
- St George's Catholic Voluntary Academy 0.1 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Akaal Primary School 0.6 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Griffe Field Primary School 0.7 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Carlyle Infant and Nursery Academy 0.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Grampian Primary Academy 0.8 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Peter's Church of England Aided Junior School 0.8 mi Not judged
- Village Primary Academy 0.9 mi School remains Good Last distance published