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Brockwell Nursery and Infant School
Primary · Mixed · Ages 3–7 · Community school
Purbeck Avenue, Loundsley Green, Chesterfield S40 4NP · brockwell-inf.derbyshire.sch.uk · 01246 232034
Overview
- Ofsted
- Remains Good
- Ungraded inspection · Nov 2022
- Demand for places
- 1.0
- first choices for each place · Reception, September 2026
- Pupils
- 198
- 18 over 180 places · 110%
- Local authority
- Derbyshire
- Nursery class
- Yes
- Free school meals
- 17.6%
- First language not English
- 2%
- School census 2025/26
The official school record (Department for Education)
Admissions
For Reception in September 2026, 58 families put the school first and 59 places were offered; 93% 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 | 59 | 58 | 1 | 93% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 59 | 63 | 1.1▲ | 94% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 57 | 61 | 1.1▲ | 93% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 43 | 42 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 60 | 66 | 1.1▲ | 88% |
Ofsted
At an ungraded inspection on 23 November 2022, Ofsted’s outcome for Brockwell Nursery and Infant School was: School remains Good.
- Outcome
- Remains Good
- Inspected
- 22 Nov 2022
- Ungraded inspection
Safeguarding effectiveInspection reports
Previously: Good, graded inspection, Jun 2017
Earlier inspections
Before September 2019
Jun 2017Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Personal development, behaviour and welfare Good Leadership and management Good Early years Good Safeguarding Effective Sept 2007Outstanding
Outcomes for pupils Outstanding Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Outstanding Leadership and management Outstanding Early years Outstanding
What parents said
98% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (61 replies, to 4 September 2023).
- Recommend
- 98%
- Replies
- 61
- 29% · 4 Sept 2023
based on the 57% who raised concerns
based on the 15% who had a child bullied