Ravensdale Infant and Nursery 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 🔒
Ravensdale Infant and Nursery School is a primary school in Derby for ages 3–7 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Not judged, from the inspection on 1 July 2025. Derby has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2026 entry.
Ravensdale 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
- Every applicant for Reception in 2026 was offered a place, as at 46 of the 61 other Derby primary schools with a published Reception 2026 outcome.
- For Reception in 2026 there were 69 first-choice applications for 75 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 6 offers went to families ranking it second or lower.
- Of the 138 Reception applications in 2026, 15 came from families living outside Derby, and 11 offers went to them.
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
- Devonshire Drive, Mickleover, Derby, DE3 9HE
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–7
- Council
- Derby
- Pupils on roll
- 267 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 24.3% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 20.7
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Not judged Inspected 1 July 2025
Strengths
- “The school provides a caring and nurturing ethos that enables pupils to fulfil the three school values to be ‘ready, respectful, engaged’.”
- “Pupils are happy and enjoy their learning.”
- “Positive relationships effectively support pupils’ mental health and well-being.”
To improve
- “In a few subjects, the curriculum is in the process of being revisited and refined.”
- “Similarly, in the early years, the revised curriculum is still being embedded.”
- “The school has rightly identified early writing as an area of immediate focus, aiming to develop a more systematic approach to the teaching of writing skills.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 11 September 2025 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 69 first-preference applications, 75 offers in total, 69 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.
- Ravensdale Junior School 0.1 mi Good
- Mickleover Primary School 0.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Silverhill Primary School 0.6 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Hackwood Primary Academy 0.7 mi Good Last distance published
- Wren Park Primary School 0.8 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Brookfield Primary School 0.9 mi Good Last distance published
- Reigate Park Primary Academy 1.1 mi Good Last distance published
- Brackensdale Spencer Academy 1.2 mi Not judged Last distance published