Grassmoor Primary School

Community school·Primary school Chesterfield, Derbyshire·S42 5EP
Composite score
26.0
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#13,919
National rank
#1316
In East Midlands
#237
In Derbyshire
Top 94%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
40%
% achieving higher RWM
0%
Reading average scaled score
103.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
102.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

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

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
83%
36 first choices, 30 places
First choices per place
1.20
more first choices than places
Applications naming the school
78
any preference, for 30 places
Applications from another council area
1%
First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.30
00.511.5
1 per place
0.9620221.0020231.0020240.9020251.202026

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 Grassmoor Primary School. Ask the school or the council how places were allocated this year.

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

School profile

Age range
3–11
Pupils on roll
231
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
46.9%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
2.2%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
35.5%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
4.3%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
6.8%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
22.6%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
21.9
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£8,391
Typical primary: £6,960

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

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About Grassmoor Primary School

Grassmoor Primary School is a primary school in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, classified by the DfE as a community school. Around 231 pupils aged 3 to 11 attend the school. 40% of its pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of Key Stage 2, well below the national average (national figure: 61%). The proportion reaching the expected standard has risen by 6.0 percentage points year on year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it in the lower half of primary schools nationally.

Pupils achieved an average scaled score of 103 in reading and 102 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). Grassmoor Primary School is oversubscribed: about 8 in 10 of the families who made it their first choice were offered a Reception place for September 2026, with 36 first choices for 30 places. Overall pupil absence was 6.8%. There are about 21.9 pupils per teacher. The school serves a community with above-average levels of disadvantage: about 47% 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. Grassmoor Primary 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.

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