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Alderman Pounder Infant and Nursery School
Primary · Mixed · Ages 3–7 · Academy
Eskdale Drive, Beeston, Nottingham NG9 5FN · aldermanpounder.notts.sch.uk · 0115 925 2928
Overview
- Ofsted
- Remains Good
- Ungraded inspection · Jan 2023
- Last distance offered
- No limit
- Reception, September 2026 entry · Nottinghamshire Council
- Demand for places
- 1.0
- first choices for each place · Reception, September 2026
- Pupils
- 182
- 77% of 237 places
- Local authority
- Nottinghamshire
- Nursery class
- Yes
- Free school meals
- 30.4%
- First language not English
- 10.4%
- School census 2025/26
- Trust
- Flying High Trust
The official school record (Department for Education)
Admissions
For Reception in September 2026, everyone who applied was offered a place. Source: Nottinghamshire Council’s document.
For Reception in September 2026, 37 families put the school first and 37 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 | 37 | 37 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 52 | 52 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 42 | 42 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 45 | 43 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 56 | 56 | 1 | 100% |
Ofsted
At an ungraded inspection on 11 January 2023, Ofsted’s outcome for Alderman Pounder Infant and Nursery School was: School remains Good.
- Outcome
- Remains Good
- Inspected
- 10 Jan 2023
- Ungraded inspection
Safeguarding effectiveInspection reports
Previously: Good, graded inspection, Dec 2010
Earlier inspections
Including inspections of the predecessor school (URN 122548), which Ofsted links to this one.
Before September 2019
Dec 2010Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Leadership and management Good Early years Good Inspection of the predecessor school (URN 122548)
Jun 2008Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Leadership and management Good Early years Good Inspection of the predecessor school (URN 122548)
What parents said
86% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (73 replies, to 1 January 2024).
- Recommend
- 86%
- Replies
- 73
- 31% · 1 Jan 2024
based on the 74% who raised concerns
based on the 25% who had a child bullied