Ashwood Spencer Academy
Primary · Academy sponsor led · Ages 3–11 · 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 🔒
Ashwood Spencer Academy is a primary school in Derby for ages 3–11 (academy sponsor led). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 14 February 2023. Derby has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2026 entry.
Ashwood Spencer Academy 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
- 62% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths in 2024/25, highest of 8 schools: this one and 7 of the 8 nearest Derby primary schools that have results.
- For Reception 2026 there were 61 first-choice applications for 61 offers (1.0 per offer, 13th highest of 62 Derby primary schools); every first-choice family was offered a place.
- 60.8% of pupils are eligible for free school meals; the middle figure across the 8 nearest primary schools in Derby is 63.1%.
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
- Amber Street, Allenton, Derby, DE24 8FT
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- Derby
- Pupils on roll
- 659 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 60.8% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 21
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 14 February 2023
Strengths
- “Leaders have high aspirations for all pupils to ‘Dream’.”
- “Pupils live up to these expectations.”
- “They are determined, resilient, expressive and ambitious.”
To improve
- “The exception was in outcomes for pupils at the end of key stage 2 last year.”
- “These systems are less well developed in some other subjects.”
- “The checks that teachers make on the precise knowledge pupils have learned do not always inform pupils’ new learning.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 31 March 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) | 62% | 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: 61 first-preference applications, 61 offers in total, 61 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.
- Pear Tree Community Junior School 0.7 mi Good
- Pear Tree Infant School 0.7 mi Good
- Allenton Primary School 0.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Lakeside Primary Academy 0.9 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Zaytouna Primary School 0.9 mi Good Last distance published
- Landau Forte Academy Moorhead 0.9 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Village Primary Academy 1.0 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Arboretum Primary School 1.0 mi Good Last distance published