Chaucer Infant School

Academy converter·Infant school Ilkeston, Derbyshire·DE7 5LN

School type

Infant school

Ages 3–7

Key Stage 2 performance

Chaucer 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%

47 first choices, 49 places

First choices per place

0.96

fewer first choices than places

Applications naming the school

100

any preference, for 49 places

First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.01

00.511.5

1 per place

0.9420221.0020231.0020240.9520250.962026

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

Every child who put Chaucer 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

Requires improvement

School profile

Age range: 3–7
Pupils on roll: 203
Gender: Mixed
Religious character: None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6

47.1%

Typical primary: 21.5%

% EAL

9.4%

Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support

14.8%

Typical primary: 14.3%

% with an EHC plan

3.0%

Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence

7.5%

Typical primary: 5.3%

Persistently absent

20.9%

Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher

20.6

Typical primary: 20.7

Spend per pupil

£7,355

Typical primary: £6,960

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

Nearby primary schools

Chaucer Junior School Ilkeston · 0.2 mi 55.0 Kensington Junior Academy Ilkeston · 0.5 mi 49.5 St Thomas Catholic Voluntary Academy Ilkeston · 0.6 mi 49.0 Granby Junior School Ilkeston · 0.7 mi 31.1 Hallam Fields Junior School Ilkeston · 1.0 mi 34.4 Ladywood Primary School Ilkeston · 1.1 mi 49.5 Dallimore Primary & Nursery School Ilkeston · 1.4 mi 41.0 Cotmanhay Junior School Ilkeston · 1.4 mi 35.2

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

Chaucer Infant School at a glance

Located in Ilkeston, Derbyshire, Chaucer Infant School is a primary school, classified by the DfE as a converter academy. The school educates roughly 203 pupils aged 3 to 7.

Getting a place is straightforward: for the September 2026 intake every family who made Chaucer Infant School their first choice was offered one of its 49 Reception places. Overall pupil absence was 7.5%. There are about 20.6 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. Chaucer 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.