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Chaucer Infant School
Primary · Mixed · Ages 3–7 · Academy
Cantelupe Road, Ilkeston DE7 5LN · chaucer-inf.derbyshire.sch.uk · 0115 932 5629
Overview
- Ofsted
- No overall grade
- 2019 framework · inspected Sept 2024
- Demand for places
- 1.0
- first choices for each place · Reception, September 2026
- Pupils
- 188
- 8 over 180 places · 104%
- Local authority
- Derbyshire
- Nursery class
- Yes
- Free school meals
- 39.1%
- First language not English
- 13.3%
- School census 2025/26
The official school record (Department for Education)
Admissions
For Reception in September 2026, 47 families put the school first and 49 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 | 49 | 47 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 40 | 38 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 40 | 40 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 53 | 53 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 48 | 45 | 0.9 | 100% |
Ofsted
Ofsted inspected Chaucer Infant School on 24 September 2024 under its 2019 framework. Inspections from September 2024 give no overall grade.
- Overall
- No overall grade
- Inspected
- 24 Sept 2024
- Graded inspection
Safeguarding effectiveInspection reports
Graded areas
| Quality of education | Requires improvement |
|---|---|
| Behaviour and attitudes | Requires improvement |
| Personal development | Good |
| Leadership and management | Requires improvement |
| Early years | Requires improvement |
Previously: Requires improvement, graded inspection, Nov 2017
Earlier inspections
Including inspections of the predecessor school (URN 112568), which Ofsted links to this one.
Before September 2019
Nov 2017Requires improvement
Outcomes for pupils Requires improvement Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Requires improvement Personal development, behaviour and welfare Requires improvement Leadership and management Requires improvement Early years Requires improvement Safeguarding Effective Inspection of the predecessor school (URN 112568)
Mar 2013Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Leadership and management Good Inspection of the predecessor school (URN 112568)
What parents said
92% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (24 replies, to 1 September 2025).
- Recommend
- 92%
- Replies
- 24
- 12% · 1 Sept 2025
based on the 75% who raised concerns
based on the 25% who had a child bullied