Parkdale Primary School
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 3–11 · Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
3.71 miles
Published by Nottinghamshire County Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2018–2025 trend 🔒
Parkdale Primary School is a primary school in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire for ages 3–11 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 8 November 2022. Nottinghamshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2018 to 2026 entry.
Parkdale 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 | 3.71 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 |
And 1 earlier figure.
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- The last Reception place offered in 2026 was 3.71 miles away, the 71st longest of 256 Nottinghamshire primary schools with a published last distance (middle figure 2.20 miles).
- The distance has swung sharply between some years; in 2026 it was further than in 2025, and the 2026 figure was the longest of the 8 years with a published distance.
- Reception 2026 drew 52 first-choice applications for 52 offers, and every first-choice family was offered a place; 23 of the 102 applications (23%) came from outside Nottinghamshire.
- In 2024/25, 76% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 10% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
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
- Parkdale Road, Carlton, Nottingham, NG4 1BX
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- Nottinghamshire
- Pupils on roll
- 452 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 18.8% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 20.8
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 8 November 2022
Strengths
- “Pupils love coming to this school, and parents speak of it with high regard.”
- “It is a happy and caring school.”
- “Relationships between staff and pupils are respectful and positive.”
To improve
- “A few subjects, namely art and design and history, are at a less advanced stage of planning.”
- “In these subjects, leaders have not fully identified the key knowledge pupils should learn or the order in which they will learn it.”
- “Pupils do not always recall important knowledge or use subject-specific vocabulary as confidently as they do in most other subjects.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 20 December 2022 (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) | 76% | 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: 52 first-preference applications, 52 offers in total, 52 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.
- The Sacred Heart Primary Catholic Voluntary Academy 0.3 mi Not judged Last distance published
- The Carlton Junior Academy 0.4 mi Not judged
- The Carlton Infant Academy 0.4 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Colwick St John the Baptist CofE Primary Academy 0.5 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Standhill Infants' School 0.6 mi Good Last distance published
- Haddon Primary and Nursery School 1.0 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Porchester Junior School 1.0 mi No Ofsted grade
- Priory Junior School 1.1 mi Good
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