Ashgate Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 4–11 · 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 🔒
Ashgate Primary School is a primary school in Derby for ages 4–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 6 June 2023. Derby has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2026 entry.
Ashgate 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 | 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 there were 33 first-choice applications for 42 offers: 0.8 first choices per offer, the 3rd lowest of 62 Derby primary schools.
- Every first-choice family was offered a Reception place in 2026, and 9 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- In 2024/25, 38% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), the 2nd lowest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest primary schools in Derby.
- At the higher standard in 2024/25 the figure was 0% (England 8%).
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
- Ashbourne Road, Derby, DE22 3FS
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Council
- Derby
- Pupils on roll
- 313 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 35.5% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 23.8
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 6 June 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils feel happy and safe in Ashgate Primary School.”
- “They know that teachers have high aspirations and want the very best for them.”
- “Staff are determined that all pupils, including pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND), are ‘moving forward and aiming high’.”
To improve
- “Curriculum planning is expert in many subjects but not in all.”
- “In some foundation subjects, the planning does not yet pinpoint the knowledge that pupils need.”
- “Published outcomes in 2022 were a disappointment.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 14 July 2023 (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) | 38% | 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: 33 first-preference applications, 42 offers in total, 33 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.
- Markeaton Primary School 0.5 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Becket Primary School 0.7 mi Good Last distance published
- Brackensdale Spencer Academy 0.8 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Firs Primary School 0.9 mi Good Last distance published
- Bishop Lonsdale Church of England Primary School and Nursery 0.9 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St Mary's Catholic Voluntary Academy 1.0 mi Good Last distance published
- St Joseph's Catholic Voluntary Academy 1.0 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Lawn Primary School 1.1 mi Outstanding Last distance published