Elmsleigh Infant & Nursery School

Academy converter·Infant school Swadlincote, Derbyshire·DE11 0EG

School type

Infant school

Ages 3–7

Key Stage 2 performance

Elmsleigh 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%

30 first choices, 38 places

First choices per place

0.79

fewer first choices than places

Applications naming the school

any preference, for 38 places

Applications from another council area

First preferences per place, last five years▼ 0.18

00.511.5

1 per place

1.0020220.8420230.9020240.9720250.792026

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

Every child who put Elmsleigh 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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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: 156
Gender: Mixed
Religious character: None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6

49.2%

Typical primary: 21.5%

% EAL

4.5%

Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support

28.9%

Typical primary: 14.3%

% with an EHC plan

16.7%

Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence

7.1%

Typical primary: 5.3%

Persistently absent

23.1%

Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher

15.1

Typical primary: 20.7

Spend per pupil

£11,534

Typical primary: £6,960

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

Nearby primary schools

St Edward's Catholic Academy Swadlincote · 0.2 mi 36.2 Springfield Junior School Swadlincote · 0.2 mi 23.1 Belmont Primary School · 0.6 mi 29.2 Fairmeadows Foundation Primary School Swadlincote · 0.8 mi 57.8 Newhall Junior School Swadlincote · 0.8 mi 28.5 Eureka Primary School Swadlincote · 0.8 mi 38.4 Pennine Way Junior Academy Swadlincote · 1.0 mi 38.6 St George's CofE Primary School Swadlincote · 1.4 mi 25.6

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

School overview

Elmsleigh Infant & Nursery School is a primary school serving Swadlincote, Derbyshire, classified by the DfE as a converter academy. It has 156 pupils aged 3 to 7 on roll.

Getting a place is straightforward: for the September 2026 intake every family who made Elmsleigh Infant & Nursery School their first choice was offered one of its 38 Reception places. Overall pupil absence was 7.1%. There are about 15.1 pupils per teacher. The school serves a community with above-average levels of disadvantage: about 49% 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. Elmsleigh Infant & 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.