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Cavendish Close Infant School
Primary · Mixed · Ages 3–7 · Community school
Wood Road, Chaddesden, Derby DE21 4LY · cavclosei.derby.sch.uk · 01332 662239
On the mapSearch near DE21 4LY
Overview
- Ofsted
- Report card
- May 2026 · graded by area, with no overall grade
- Demand for places
- 1.0
- first choices for each place · Reception, September 2026
- Pupils
- 287
- 17 over 270 places · 106%
- Local authority
- Derby
- Nursery class
- Yes
- Free school meals
- 24.7%
- First language not English
- 15.7%
- School census 2025/26
The official school record (Department for Education)
Admissions
For Reception in September 2026, 65 families put the school first and 68 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 | 68 | 65 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 80 | 70 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 69 | 63 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 78 | 67 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 67 | 60 | 0.9 | 100% |
Ofsted
Ofsted inspected Cavendish Close Infant School on 12 May 2026 and published a report card: each area has its own grade, and there is no overall grade.
- Inclusion: Expected standard
- Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention
- Achievement: Expected standard
- Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard
- Personal development and well-being: Expected standard
- Early years: Expected standard
- Leadership and governance: Needs attention
- Inspected
- 12 May 2026
- Report card
- Safeguarding
- Met
Graded areas
| Inclusion | Expected standard |
|---|---|
| Curriculum and teaching | Needs attention |
| Achievement | Expected standard |
| Attendance and behaviour | Expected standard |
| Personal development and well-being | Expected standard |
| Early years | Expected standard |
| Leadership and governance | Needs attention |
Previously: Remains Good, ungraded inspection, May 2022
Earlier inspections
September 2019 to November 2025
May 2022Ungraded inspectionRemains Good
Safeguarding Effective
Before September 2019
Nov 2012Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Leadership and management Good Feb 2010Requires improvement
Outcomes for pupils Requires improvement Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Requires improvement Leadership and management Requires improvement Early years Good
What parents said
100% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (11 replies, to 2 April 2023).
- Recommend
- 100%
- Replies
- 11
- 4% · 2 Apr 2023
based on the 55% who raised concerns
based on the 9% who had a child bullied