Birk Hill Infant & Nursery School

Community school·Infant school Eckington, Derbyshire·S21 4BE

School type

Infant school

Ages 3–7

Key Stage 2 performance

Birk Hill Infant & 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

100%

8 first choices, 11 places

First choices per place

0.73

fewer first choices than places

Applications naming the school

any preference, for 11 places

Applications from another council area

First preferences per place, last five years▼ 0.27

00.511.5

1 per place

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

Every child who put Birk Hill Infant & Nursery School first was offered a place in 2026, so no distance cut-off applied: living further away did not cost a place that year.

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

Ofsted judgements

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Overall effectiveness

Requires improvement

Quality of education

Requires improvement

Behaviour and attitudes

Requires improvement

Personal development

Good

Leadership and management

Requires improvement

Safeguarding effective?

Yes

Early years provision

Requires improvement

School profile

Age range: 3–7
Pupils on roll: 92
Gender: Mixed
Religious character: None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6

31.1%

Typical primary: 21.5%

% EAL

9.8%

Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support

17.4%

Typical primary: 14.3%

% with an EHC plan

2.2%

Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence

6.9%

Typical primary: 5.3%

Persistently absent

17.2%

Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher

17.1

Typical primary: 20.7

Spend per pupil

£8,877

Typical primary: £6,960

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

Nearby primary schools

Eckington Junior School Sheffield · 0.6 mi 31.2 Camms CofE (Aided) Primary School Chesterfield · 0.9 mi 34.0 Marsh Lane Primary School Sheffield · 1.0 mi 81.8 Renishaw Primary School Sheffield · 1.7 mi 38.5 Ridgeway Primary School Sheffield · 2.1 mi 73.8 Immaculate Conception Catholic Primary Sheffield · 2.3 mi 58.5 New Whittington Community Primary School Chesterfield · 2.4 mi 46.5 St Giles CofE Primary School Sheffield · 2.6 mi 40.9

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

School overview

Birk Hill Infant & Nursery School is a primary school serving Eckington, Derbyshire, classified by the DfE as a community school. It has 92 pupils aged 3 to 7 on roll. At its most recent graded inspection, Ofsted rated Birk Hill Infant & Nursery School 'Requires improvement'.

Getting a place is straightforward: for the September 2026 intake every family who made Birk Hill Infant & Nursery School their first choice was offered one of its 11 Reception places. Overall pupil absence was 6.9%. There are about 17.1 pupils per teacher. If you are considering Birk Hill Infant & Nursery School, it may be worth asking how leaders have responded to Ofsted's findings and what has changed since the inspection. 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.