The School Record

Published admissions and inspection figures for schools in England, from the DfE, Ofsted and local authorities.

Holmesdale Infant School

URN 112680 · Primary · Community school · Derbyshire

The Avenue, Dronfield, S18 2LR

Figures current as of 4 September 2026, the day we last checked a source behind this page.

How many families applied

Preferences expressed and offers made at Reception, as published by the Department for Education. These describe demand. They do not indicate whether any particular child would be offered a place.

In the 2025 intake, 49 families named Holmesdale Infant School as their first preference, and the school made 50 offers.

That is 0.98 first preferences per place offered, which places it above 51% of schools admitting at Reception in England that year.

More first preferences per place than 51% of comparable schools position among schools in England admitting at Reception, 2025 intake

Fewer families are naming it first. Across the 5 most recent years held, first preferences per place averaged 1.2 in 2021–2022 and 1.0 in 2024–2025.

Applications and offers at Reception, 12 intake years
Intake 1st preferences All preferences Offers made 1st prefs per place
2025 49 99 50 0.98
2024 50 96 49 1.02
2023 54 89 50 1.08
2022 53 86 49 1.08
2021 66 114 50 1.32
2020 43 84 46 0.93
2019 57 109 50 1.14
2018 38 85 40 0.95
2017 49 96 50 0.98
2016 47 82 47 1.00
2015 47 100 50 0.94
2014 39 78 39 1.00

“Offers made” counts the offers the school made. It is not the number of places the school had, so please do not read it as one.

Source: Department for Education: school-level applications and offers, checked 4 September 2026. All sources.

Ofsted

Ofsted changed its inspection framework: the current one publishes several graded areas and no single overall grade, while the previous one published an overall effectiveness grade. Each inspection below states which framework produced it.

Ofsted graded inspection (previous framework), 24 September 2024

Overall effectiveness: Not judged

Quality of education: Good

Behaviour and attitudes: Good

Personal development: Good

Leadership and management: Good

Early years: Good

Sixth form / post-16: 9

Ofsted's report for this school

Source: Ofsted: state-funded school inspections management information, checked 4 September 2026. All sources.

Teachers staying and leaving

These come from the School Workforce Census, which follows each teacher into the next year. The numbers count full-time jobs, so a teacher who works half the week counts as half. They are not a count of people.

Census yearTeachers (FTE) Still there a year later Moved to another state school Left state schools Left in total
2024/25 7.0 7.0 0.0 0.0 0.0%
2023/24 6.4 5.4 0.0 1.0 15.6%
2022/23 5.4 4.0 0.4 1.0 25.9%
2021/22 6.4 4.4 0.0 2.0 31.2%
2020/21 6.0 6.0 0.0 0.0 0.0%
2019/20 6.1 5.9 0.0 0.2 3.3%

This is turnover among teachers. It says nothing about the headteacher or the senior leadership team: DfE publishes leadership retention separately and we do not hold it by school.

Catchment area

Nobody publishes a catchment area map for this school that we can read. That does not mean an address is outside its area. It means we hold no map, so we cannot tell you either way.

Where it is

The 6 nearest primary schools we hold figures for, by straight-line distance from Holmesdale Infant School.

Nearby and related

Where these figures come from

This page was made on 9 September 2026. "Retrieved" means the day we downloaded the data. It is not the day the data was written, so the figures can be about an earlier year. How we compare schools.