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Ripley Infant School
Primary · Mixed · Ages 4–7 · Community school
Kirk Close, Off Highfield Way, Ripley DE5 3RY · ripley-inf.derbyshire.sch.uk · 01773 743354
Overview
- Ofsted
- Good
- 2019 framework · inspected Jan 2024
- Demand for places
- 1.0
- first choices for each place · Reception, September 2026
- Pupils
- 157
- 87% of 180 places
- Local authority
- Derbyshire
- Nursery class
- No
- Free school meals
- 40.1%
- First language not English
- 4.5%
- School census 2025/26
The official school record (Department for Education)
Admissions
For Reception in September 2026, 42 families put the school first and 44 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 | 44 | 42 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 51 | 50 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 51 | 50 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 44 | 44 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 47 | 47 | 1 | 100% |
Ofsted
Ripley Infant School was judged Good at its last graded inspection, on 30 January 2024, under Ofsted’s 2019 framework.
- Overall
- Good
- Inspected
- 30 Jan 2024
- Graded inspection
Safeguarding effectiveInspection reports
Graded areas
| Quality of education | Good |
|---|---|
| Behaviour and attitudes | Good |
| Personal development | Good |
| Leadership and management | Good |
| Early years | Good |
Previously: Concerns, ungraded inspection, Feb 2022
Earlier inspections
September 2019 to November 2025
Feb 2022Ungraded inspectionConcerns
Safeguarding Effective
Before September 2019
Nov 2011Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Leadership and management Good Early years Outstanding Jan 2007Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Leadership and management Good Early years Good
What parents said
87% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (30 replies, to 6 January 2025).
- Recommend
- 87%
- Replies
- 30
- 18% · 6 Jan 2025
based on the 63% who raised concerns
based on the 27% who had a child bullied