Riddings Infant and Nursery School

Community school·Infant school Alfreton, Derbyshire·DE55 4EW

School type

Infant school

Ages 3–7

Key Stage 2 performance

Riddings Infant and Nursery School is an infant school for pupils aged 3–7. Pupils move on to a separate junior or middle school before Year 6, so the school does not enter pupils for the Key Stage 2 SATs and has no KS2 results to publish.

This applies to every infant school in England — it does not mean data is missing. Ofsted judgements and school information are shown below.

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first

97%

62 first choices, 60 places

First choices per place

1.03

more first choices than places

Applications naming the school

any preference, for 60 places

First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.05

00.511.5

1 per place

1.2120221.0320231.0020240.9820251.032026

Red dashed line = one first choice per place. How to read this

Derbyshire does not publish how far from the school the last child offered a Reception place lived, so there is no cut-off distance to show for Riddings Infant and Nursery School. Ask the school or the council how places were allocated this year.

Application figures: DfE, school level applications and offers (2026 intake).

Ofsted judgements

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Quality of education

Good

Behaviour and attitudes

Good

Personal development

Good

Leadership and management

Good

Safeguarding effective?

Yes

Early years provision

Good

School profile

Age range: 3–7
Pupils on roll: 207
Gender: Mixed
Religious character: None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6

37.6%

Typical primary: 21.5%

% EAL

3.9%

Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support

27.5%

Typical primary: 14.3%

% with an EHC plan

1.9%

Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence

5.0%

Typical primary: 5.3%

Persistently absent

8.1%

Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher

20.9

Typical primary: 20.7

Spend per pupil

£8,310

Typical primary: £6,960

“Typical” = the median primary school in England. What this means

Nearby primary schools

Riddings Junior School Alfreton · 0.1 mi 41.1 Somerlea Park Junior School Alfreton · 0.5 mi 36.6 Ironville and Codnor Park Primary School Ironville · 0.9 mi 44.4 Swanwick Primary School Alfreton · 1.5 mi 47.6 Leys Junior School Alfreton · 1.6 mi 40.0 Woodbridge Junior School Alfreton · 1.8 mi 38.4 Ripley St John's Church of England Primary School and Nursery Ripley · 1.9 mi 59.1 Codnor Community Primary School Church of England Controlled Ripley · 1.9 mi 60.7

Location

Official sources

Latest Ofsted report reports.ofsted.gov.uk DfE Compare School Performance compare-school-performance.service.gov.uk GIAS school details get-information-schools.service.gov.uk

About Riddings Infant and Nursery School

Riddings Infant and Nursery School is a primary school in Alfreton, Derbyshire, classified by the DfE as a community school. Around 207 pupils aged 3 to 7 attend the school.

Competition for places is real here - 97% of first-choice applicants were offered a Reception place for September 2026 (62 first choices for 60 places). Overall pupil absence was 5.0%. There are about 20.9 pupils per teacher. The school serves a community with above-average levels of disadvantage: about 38% of pupils have been eligible for free school meals in the last six years, compared with roughly 24% nationally — useful context when reading the results above. Riddings Infant and Nursery School does not currently have a recent graded Ofsted judgement on record (often the case for newer or recently converted schools), so it is worth asking when its next inspection is expected. This overview is generated automatically from the latest published DfE performance tables and Ofsted data; figures are rounded, and you can check the originals via the official links above.