William Lilley Infant and Nursery School

Primary · Community school · Ages 2–7 · Nottingham, Nottinghamshire

Last distance offered · Reception 2026

1.917 miles

Published by Nottinghamshire County Council · offers on 16 April 2026

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William Lilley Infant and Nursery School is a primary school in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire for ages 2–7 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 29 September 2022. Nottinghamshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2019 to 2026 entry.

William Lilley 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	1.917 mi
Reception 2025	🔒 With a pass
Reception 2024	🔒 With a pass
Reception 2023	🔒 With a pass
Reception 2022	🔒 With a pass
Reception 2021	🔒 With a pass
Reception 2020	🔒 With a pass
Reception 2019	🔒 With a pass

What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment

What the figures show

In 2026 the last child offered a Reception place lived 1.917 miles from the school, 118th shortest of the 256 Nottinghamshire primary schools with a published Reception 2026 last distance.
That 2026 Reception distance was nearer the school than in 2025 and in 2020; it swung sharply between some years, most of all from 2024 to 2025.
Reception 2026 saw 23 first-choice applications for 23 offers, and every first-choice family was offered a place; 8 of the 65 applications (12%) came from families living outside Nottinghamshire.
Free school meal eligibility stands at 17.7% of pupils, against a middle figure of 26.9% across the 8 nearest primary schools in Nottinghamshire.

Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Nottinghamshire schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.

Key facts

Address: Halls Road, Stapleford, Nottingham, NG9 7FS
Type: Community school
Phase: Primary
Ages: 2–7
Council: Nottinghamshire
Pupils on roll: 130 January 2026 school census
Free school meals: 17.7% of pupils eligible
Pupils per teacher: 24

Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026

Ofsted

School remains Good Inspected 29 September 2022

Strengths

“This is a happy and welcoming school.”
“The school is a caring community.”
“As one pupil said, ‘We look after new pupils, we want to help other people.”

To improve

“Leaders have not yet been able to check the impact of these plans.”
“Pupils sometimes remember the exciting activities they have done rather than the knowledge they have gained.”

Safeguarding: Effective

Quoted from the Ofsted report published 28 November 2022 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.

Applications and offers

2026 Reception entry: 23 first-preference applications, 23 offers in total, 23 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 Nottinghamshire.

Fairfield Spencer Academy 0.2 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
St John's CofE Primary School 0.6 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
Albany Junior School 0.8 mi No Ofsted grade
Albany Infant and Nursery School 0.8 mi Good Last distance published
Wadsworth Fields Primary School 0.9 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
Bispham Spencer Academy 1.2 mi No Ofsted grade
Sunnyside Spencer Academy 1.2 mi Not judged Last distance published
Eskdale Junior School 1.4 mi Not judged