Oak Grange Primary School, Derby

Ofsted's report card from its 19 May 2026 inspection grades Oak Grange Primary School on 7 areas: 4 strong standard and 3 expected standard. Report cards replaced single-word judgements in November 2025, on a five-point scale from exceptional to urgent improvement.

Early years - Strong standard. "Leaders are ambitious for all children in the early years to make the best possible start to their schooling."

Inclusion - Strong standard. "Oak Grange is a highly inclusive school."

Leadership and governance - Strong standard. "Leaders' work to establish a successful new school over a short period of time has been remarkable."

Personal development and wellbeing - Strong standard. "Leaders provide a rich, well-designed personal development programme that enables pupils to thrive."

Achievement - Expected standard. "Leaders ensure that the development of pupils' secure knowledge and skills in communication and language, reading, writing and mathematics is a high priority."

Attendance and behaviour - Expected standard. "Leaders have high expectations of all pupils to attend school as regularly as possible."

Curriculum and teaching - Expected standard. "Leaders provide a carefully designed, broad and balanced curriculum."

Safeguarding standards were met.

Ofsted's next steps for the school: "Leaders should ensure that their work to improve pupils' writing is consistently applied by all staff so it has a positive impact on the quality of pupils' written work across the curriculum"; "Leaders should build on their work to ensure that all pupils attend as often as possible"; "Leaders and those responsible for governance should ensure that they continue to respond to the evolving context of the school as it increases in size to achieve and sustain an exceptional quality of education that has a transformational impact on all pupils".

In its own words: "It is with great pleasure that I welcome you and your family to Oak Grange Primary School. My name is Mrs Sarah Coleman, and it is my privilege to be the Headteacher of our growing and thriving school. Oak Grange is a warm, inclusive community where children from Nursery to Year 6 will be nurtured, challenged, and inspired every day."

The school runs a breakfast club from 7:30am and after-school care, from £7.50 per day.

Coming up: an open evening on Tuesday 3 November 2026. Check the school's website before you go, as dates can change.

For September 2026 entry, 41 families put Oak Grange Primary School as their first choice and 74 named it as one of their preferences, for 45 places offered. It had fewer first-choice applications than places. 2 families who put it first were not offered a place there.

The nearest other state primary schools to Oak Grange Primary School are Oakwood Junior School (0.5 miles, Good, 74% reading, 74% maths); Oakwood Infant and Nursery School (0.5 miles, Good); Clover Leys Spencer Academy (0.6 miles, Good); and Wyndham Spencer Academy (0.7 miles, Outstanding, 67% reading, 73% maths).

Oak Grange Primary School is one of 24 schools run by East Midlands Education Trust, an academy trust.

Across the trust's primary schools, 65% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths in 2024/25.

45 parents answered Ofsted's Parent View survey about Oak Grange Primary School (as of September 2026): 100% would recommend the school and 96% say their child is happy there.

The strongest agreement was that they would recommend the school (100%); the weakest, that they are kept well informed about progress (89%).

13.8% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, well below the average state school (25%), according to the 2026 school census.

Oak Grange Primary School had 7 teachers in 2026, one for every 7 pupils: more teachers per pupil than a typical primary school, at about one for every 20.

The nearest railway station is Peartree Rail Station, about 2.1 miles away in a straight line.

4 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Silver Ghost (opposite), 300 metres away.

In 2024/25, Oak Grange Primary School issued 2 suspensions, 2.7 for every 100 pupils (the average state school: 6.3), and no permanent exclusions.

The secondary schools closest to Oak Grange Primary School are Noel-Baker Academy (0.4 miles), Alvaston Moor Academy (0.8 miles) and Chellaston Academy (1.2 miles).