Ladycross Infant School

Community school·Infant school Nottingham, Derbyshire·NG10 5JD

School type

Infant school

Ages 3–7

Key Stage 2 performance

Ladycross Infant 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%

38 first choices, 40 places

First choices per place

0.95

fewer first choices than places

Applications naming the school

any preference, for 40 places

First preferences per place, last five years▼ 0.02

00.511.5

1 per place

1.0020221.0020231.0020240.9720250.952026

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

Every child who put Ladycross Infant 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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Quality of education

Requires improvement

Behaviour and attitudes

Requires improvement

Personal development

Good

Leadership and management

Requires improvement

Safeguarding effective?

Yes

Early years provision

Good

School profile

Age range: 3–7
Pupils on roll: 189
Gender: Mixed
Religious character: None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6

37.1%

Typical primary: 21.5%

% EAL

6.3%

Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support

10.6%

Typical primary: 14.3%

% with an EHC plan

3.7%

Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence

4.5%

Typical primary: 5.3%

Persistently absent

13.8%

Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher

19.3

Typical primary: 20.7

Spend per pupil

£8,342

Typical primary: £6,960

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

Nearby primary schools

Cloudside Academy Nottingham · 0.3 mi 57.2 Risley Lower Grammar CE (VC) Primary School Derby · 0.8 mi 41.6 Longmoor Primary School Nottingham · 0.9 mi 50.5 English Martyrs' Catholic Voluntary Academy Nottingham · 1.4 mi 74.8 Harrington Junior School Nottingham · 1.6 mi 45.2 Firfield Primary School Derby · 2.1 mi 55.3 Grange Primary School Nottingham · 2.2 mi 38.5 Brooklands Primary School Nottingham · 2.3 mi 50.6

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

Ladycross Infant School at a glance

Located in Nottingham, Derbyshire, Ladycross Infant School is a primary school, classified by the DfE as a community school. The school educates roughly 189 pupils aged 3 to 7.

Ladycross Infant School was not oversubscribed for September 2026: all 38 families who put it first were offered a place. Overall pupil absence was 4.5%. There are about 19.3 pupils per teacher. The school serves a community with above-average levels of disadvantage: about 37% 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. Ladycross Infant 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.