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Ernehale Infant School
Primary · Mixed · Ages 4–7 · Academy
Derwent Crescent, Gedling Road, Arnold, Nottingham NG5 6TA · ernehalefha.co.uk · 0115 956 7622
Overview
- Ofsted
- Good
- 2019 framework · inspected May 2024
- 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
- 136
- 76% of 180 places
- Local authority
- Nottinghamshire
- Nursery class
- No
- Free school meals
- 5.9%
- First language not English
- 7.4%
- 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, 35 families put the school first and 36 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 | 36 | 35 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 49 | 40 | 0.8 | 100% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 37 | 36 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 41 | 37 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 58 | 54 | 0.9 | 100% |
Ofsted
Ernehale Infant School was judged Good at its last graded inspection, on 15 May 2024, under Ofsted’s 2019 framework.
- Overall
- Good
- Inspected
- 15 May 2024
- Graded inspection
Safeguarding effectiveInspection reports
Graded areas
| Quality of education | Good |
|---|---|
| Behaviour and attitudes | Good |
| Personal development | Outstanding |
| Leadership and management | Good |
| Early years | Outstanding |
Previously: Outstanding, graded inspection, May 2010
Earlier inspections
Including inspections of the predecessor school (URN 122513), which Ofsted links to this one.
Before September 2019
May 2010Outstanding
Outcomes for pupils Outstanding Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Leadership and management Outstanding Early years Good Inspection of the predecessor school (URN 122513)
Feb 2007Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Leadership and management Outstanding Early years Good Inspection of the predecessor school (URN 122513)
What parents said
85% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (46 replies, to 7 April 2025).
- Recommend
- 85%
- Replies
- 46
- 27% · 7 Apr 2025
based on the 76% who raised concerns
based on the 39% who had a child bullied