Hardwick Primary School
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 3–11 · Derby
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
Not published
From Derby City Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2023–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Hardwick Primary School is a primary school in Derby for ages 3–11 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Not judged, from the inspection on 25 February 2025. Derby and the school have published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2023 to 2026 entry.
Hardwick 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 |
| Reception 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2023 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- Of its 589 pupils, 66.4% are eligible for free school meals, above the middle figure of 57.3% across the 8 nearest primary schools in Derby.
- Reception 2026 drew 59 first-choice applications for 60 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 1 offer went to a family who ranked it second or lower.
- In 2024/25, 42% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 6% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- There are 23 pupils per teacher, against a middle figure of 21.1 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
- Dover Street, Derby, DE23 6QP
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- Derby
- Pupils on roll
- 589 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 66.4% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 23
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Not judged Inspected 25 February 2025
Strengths
- “Pupils at this school are happy and well cared for.”
- “They thrive in a nurturing environment where they feel safe and valued.”
- “Pupils trust the adults in school to help them whenever they face concerns or worries.”
To improve
- “In a small number of subjects, the activities that pupils undertake do not consistently help them to achieve the aims of the highly ambitious curriculum.”
- “Consequently, pupils do not achieve as well as they could in these subjects.”
- “The school’s published outcomes for 2024 show that the proportion of pupils who met the expected standards in reading and mathematics in key stage 2 was below the national average.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 31 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) | 42% | 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: 59 first-preference applications, 60 offers in total, 59 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.
- Arboretum Primary School 0.2 mi Good Last distance published
- Dale Community Primary School 0.3 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Derby St Chad's CofE Nursery and Infant School 0.3 mi Good Last distance published
- Pear Tree Community Junior School 0.4 mi Good
- Pear Tree Infant School 0.4 mi Good
- St Joseph's Catholic Voluntary Academy 0.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St James' Church of England Aided Junior School 0.5 mi Good
- Rosehill Infant and Nursery School 0.6 mi Standards maintained Last distance published