Duston Eldean Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 4–11 · Northampton, West Northamptonshire
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
Not published
From West Northamptonshire Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2025 figure 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Duston Eldean Primary School is a primary school in Northampton, West Northamptonshire for ages 4–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Not judged, from the inspection on 21 January 2025. West Northamptonshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2025 to 2026 entry.
Duston Eldean Primary 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 | Not published |
| Reception 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- Reception 2026 had 65 first-choice applications for 60 offers; 60 offers went to first-choice families, and 5 first-choice families were not offered a place.
- At 1.1 first choices per offer, Reception 2026 ranked 17th highest of 143 West Northamptonshire primary schools.
- In 2024/25, 77% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), the highest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest primary schools in West Northamptonshire.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other West Northamptonshire schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Main Road, Duston, Northampton, NN5 6PP
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Council
- West Northamptonshire
- Pupils on roll
- 418 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 9.8% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 21.3
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Not judged Inspected 21 January 2025
Strengths
- “Pupils are incredibly friendly, polite and well-mannered at this school.”
- “They consistently live up to the high expectations of the school’s ‘FISH philosophy’.”
- “Pupils seek ways to fully involve themselves in the life of the school.”
To improve
- “The school has not ensured that the curriculum is taught equally well in all subjects.”
- “In a small number of subjects, the checks teachers make on pupils’ learning do not always ensure that they are building on what they were taught previously.”
- “In those subjects, the learning activities selected sometimes lack ambition and hinder the depth of knowledge that pupils can reach.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 14 March 2025 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Exam results
| Measure | School | England |
|---|---|---|
| Key stage 2 · reading, writing and maths, expected standard (2024/25) | 77% | 62% |
Department for Education school performance data. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 65 first-preference applications, 60 offers in total, 60 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 West Northamptonshire.
- Hopping Hill Primary School 0.6 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Chiltern Primary School 1.0 mi Good Last distance published
- St Luke's Church of England Primary School 1.0 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Millway Primary School 1.2 mi Good Last distance published
- St Mary's Catholic Primary School 1.2 mi Good Last distance published
- Lyncrest Primary School 1.2 mi Good Last distance published
- Kings Heath Primary Academy 1.3 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Upton Meadows Primary School 1.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published