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Charlotte Nursery and Infant School

PrimaryAges 3–7Community

Ilkeston, DE7 8LQ · Derbyshire local authority

Ilkeston’s School Grade C− better than 25% of towns in England

Getting in
73/73
first choices offered a place, 2026 (England: 93%)
How full
288 pupils
90% of its 320 places
Free school meals
30%
30 in 100 pupils eligible · outlined square = England’s schools (25)
The gist

What stands out about Charlotte Nursery and Infant School

  • No letter for this school: the reason is below.
  • Ofsted: Inspected, April 2025 (shown, not graded)
  • Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026 (73 of 73)
  • Homes in its postcode sector (DE7 8) sold for a median £160,500; Ilkeston’s is £175,000
Getting in

How hard is it to get a place at Charlotte Nursery and Infant School?

Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026.

73
families put it first for September 2026
75
places offered
100%
of first choices offered a place (England’s primaries: 93%)
First choices and places, by year of entry
20192020202120222023202420252026
Families who put it firstPlaces offered
Red figures: first choices not offered a place

Years when some first choices missed out: 2019 (17), 2021 (1). The council runs the coordinated admissions; each school’s rules (siblings, distance, faith) decide who gets in. DfE doesn’t publish the furthest distance offered, so check the council’s admissions booklet for that. Derbyshire council sets the admissions rules. Apply through Derbyshire council’s coordinated admissions.

Demand for primary schools in Ilkeston, September 2026

Outline = places offered · green = families who put it first · striped = more first choices than places

1.20 per place
83% got their first choice
1.00 per place
96% got their first choice
Charlotte Nursery and Infant
0.97 per place
100% got their first choice
0.96 per place
100% got their first choice
0.94 per place
100% got their first choice
0.94 per place
100% got their first choice
0.84 per place
100% got their first choice

Who goes here

DfE school census, January 2025

287 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.

SEN support
19.5%England 15.3%
EHC plan
2.1%England 3.6%
English as an additional language
9.8%England 18.8%
Free school meals in the last 6 years
33.9%England 26.2%

Girls and boys

Girls 47%Boys 53%
Its letter

No letter for Charlotte Nursery and Infant School

An infant school: pupils move on at 7, before the Key Stage 2 tests at 11, so there are no results to grade.

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

Ofsted inspections

Shown, not graded: Ofsted is never part of a letter or the School Grade.

Graded inspection (no overall grade since September 2024), April 2025.

The full reports on Ofsted ↗

Living nearby

Living near Charlotte Nursery and Infant School

For families thinking of moving: what homes cost around the school, and the other schools close by.

Home prices in DE7 8, the school’s postcode sector

Ilkeston property prices →
£160,500
median sale, 454 sales in 36 months · Ilkeston £175,000

Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025

£50K£100K£150K£200K2010201520202025DE7 8Ilkeston
DE7 8Ilkeston

By type, the 36 months to August 2026

Detached
£233K
Semi-detached
£166K
Terraced
£140K
Flat
£118K
DE7 8Ilkeston

Homes in DE7 8 sell for a little under Ilkeston’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

13 state schools
0.5 mi1 mi1.5 miNDDB−C+CACBBCharlotte Nursery and Infan…
ABCDNo letterPrimarySecondary / all-through

Ilkeston, DE7 8LQ

Charlotte Nursery and Infant School: common questions

How hard is it to get into Charlotte Nursery and Infant School?

For September 2026, 73 families put Charlotte Nursery and Infant School first and all of them were offered a place; 75 places were offered in all.

What is Charlotte Nursery and Infant School’s Ofsted rating?

Its latest inspection outcome is Inspected (April 2025).

How much do houses cost near Charlotte Nursery and Infant School?

Homes in its postcode sector, DE7 8, sold for a median £160,500 over the 36 months to August 2026 (454 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; Ilkeston’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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