Alfreton Park Community Special School
Alfreton, DE55 7AL · Derbyshire local authority
Alfreton’s School Grade C− better than 20% of towns in England
What stands out about Alfreton Park Community Special School
- No letter for this school: the reason is below.
- 56% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (more than England’s 25%)
- Ofsted report card, April 2026: achievement expected standard, safeguarding met (shown, not graded)
- Homes in its postcode sector (DE55 7) sold for a median £198,475; Alfreton’s is £190,000
Who goes here
DfE school census, January 2025135 pupils. SEN support is extra help in school for a special educational need; an EHC plan is the council’s legal plan for pupils who need more.
Girls and boys
No letter for Alfreton Park Community Special School
Special schools aren’t given a letter: their pupils’ needs differ too much for results to compare with mainstream schools.
Letters go to England’s open mainstream state schools with published Key Stage 2 or GCSE results (grammar schools included), each against the schools of its own phase.
Ofsted inspections
Shown, not graded: Ofsted is never part of a letter or the School Grade.
Report card, inspection starting April 2026.
Before the report card: Ungraded inspection: School remains Good, May 2022.
Living near Alfreton Park Community Special School
For families thinking of moving: what homes cost around the school, and the other schools close by.
Home prices in DE55 7, the school’s postcode sector
Alfreton property prices →Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025
By type, the 36 months to August 2026
Homes in DE55 7 sell for a little over Alfreton’s typical price. HM Land Registry Price Paid, standard sales. Catchments aren’t published, so the postcode sector stands in for “around the school”.
Schools within 1.6 miles
8 state schoolsLocation
Directions ↗Alfreton, DE55 7AL
Alfreton Park Community Special School: common questions
What is Alfreton Park Community Special School’s Ofsted rating?
Its latest inspection (April 2026) gave a report card: achievement expected standard, safeguarding met. Ofsted stopped giving one-word overall grades in September 2024.
How much do houses cost near Alfreton Park Community Special School?
Homes in its postcode sector, DE55 7, sold for a median £198,475 over the 36 months to August 2026 (464 sales).
Sources: DfE Get Information about Schools (16 October 2026), Key Stage 2 performance tables (2023–2025, three-year average) and Key Stage 4 (2025/26, provisional); Ofsted state-funded school inspections as at 30 September 2026. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Also: DfE Key Stage 4 performance, schools data (2023/24 and 2024/25 final, 2025/26 provisional) and Key Stage 2 performance tables 2024/25 by subject; DfE school census, January 2025; DfE school-level applications and offers, September 2019 to 2026 entry; HM Land Registry Price Paid by postcode sector, 2010 to August 2026.
A school’s letter is our own summary of its published results against England’s schools of the same phase; Alfreton’s School Grade is a separate grade, built from the results of the schools in and around the town against other towns. Map: © OpenStreetMap contributors.
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