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Ashbrook Infant School
Primary · Mixed · Ages 3–7 · Community school
Victoria Avenue, Borrowash, Derby DE72 3HF · ashbrookinfantandnursery.co.uk · 01332 662695
On the mapSearch near DE72 3HF
Overview
- Ofsted
- No overall grade
- 2019 framework · inspected Feb 2025
- Demand for places
- 1.0
- first choices for each place · Reception, September 2026
- Pupils
- 122
- 81% of 150 places
- Local authority
- Derbyshire
- Nursery class
- Yes
- Free school meals
- 23.7%
- First language not English
- 4.9%
- School census 2025/26
The official school record (Department for Education)
Admissions
For Reception in September 2026, 29 families put the school first and 30 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 | 30 | 29 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 25 | 25 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 35 | 35 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 33 | 28 | 0.8 | 100% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 42 | 38 | 0.9 | 100% |
Ofsted
Ofsted inspected Ashbrook Infant School on 4 February 2025 under its 2019 framework. Inspections from September 2024 give no overall grade.
- Overall
- No overall grade
- Inspected
- 4 Feb 2025
- Graded inspection
Safeguarding effectiveInspection reports
Graded areas
| Quality of education | Requires improvement |
|---|---|
| Behaviour and attitudes | Requires improvement |
| Personal development | Requires improvement |
| Leadership and management | Requires improvement |
| Early years | Good |
Previously: Requires improvement, graded inspection, Oct 2022
Earlier inspections
September 2019 to November 2025
Oct 2022Requires improvement
Quality of education Requires improvement Behaviour and attitudes Requires improvement Personal development Requires improvement Leadership and management Requires improvement Early years Requires improvement Safeguarding Effective
Before September 2019
Jan 2013Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Leadership and management Good Oct 2009Requires improvement
Outcomes for pupils Requires improvement Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Requires improvement Leadership and management Requires improvement Early years Requires improvement
What parents said
88% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (33 replies, to 1 September 2025).
- Recommend
- 88%
- Replies
- 33
- 23% · 1 Sept 2025
based on the 61% who raised concerns
based on the 12% who had a child bullied