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Charlotte Nursery and Infant School
Primary · Mixed · Ages 3–7 · Community school
Trinity Close, Ilkeston DE7 8LQ · charlotte-school.co.uk · 0115 932 0970
Overview
- Ofsted
- No overall grade
- 2019 framework · inspected Apr 2025
- Demand for places
- 1.0
- first choices for each place · Reception, September 2026
- Pupils
- 288
- 90% of 320 places
- Local authority
- Derbyshire
- Nursery class
- Yes
- Free school meals
- 29.5%
- First language not English
- 8.7%
- School census 2025/26
The official school record (Department for Education)
Admissions
For Reception in September 2026, 73 families put the school first and 75 places were offered; 100% of those families were offered a place there. Admission depends on the school’s own rules.
First choices against places
| Reception | Places | First choices | Per place | % offered |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2026Sept 2026 | 75 | 73 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 59 | 58 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 71 | 68 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 85 | 85 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 85 | 82 | 1 | 100% |
Ofsted
Ofsted inspected Charlotte Nursery and Infant School on 23 April 2025 under its 2019 framework. Inspections from September 2024 give no overall grade.
- Overall
- No overall grade
- Inspected
- 23 Apr 2025
- Graded inspection
Safeguarding effectiveInspection reports
Graded areas
| Quality of education | Requires improvement |
|---|---|
| Behaviour and attitudes | Good |
| Personal development | Good |
| Leadership and management | Requires improvement |
| Early years | Requires improvement |
Previously: Outstanding, graded inspection, Feb 2014
Earlier inspections
Before September 2019
Feb 2014Outstanding
Outcomes for pupils Outstanding Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Outstanding Leadership and management Outstanding Jan 2009Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Leadership and management Good Early years Good
What parents said
79% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (43 replies, to 1 September 2025).
- Recommend
- 79%
- Replies
- 43
- 15% · 1 Sept 2025
based on the 72% who raised concerns
based on the 35% who had a child bullied
based on 11 parents (26%) with SEND