Tibshelf Infant School

Tibshelf Infant School continues to be recognized as a good educational institution, emphasizing a caring atmosphere where pupils feel safe and happy. The school has cultivated a strong ethos with active participation from pupils in various leadership roles, fostering responsibility and online safety awareness. The curriculum has seen recent revisions with a focus on reading and mathematics, although there remains work to be done across several foundation subjects to ensure consistency and effectiveness in delivery. The school's partnership with a neighboring junior school is enhancing the continuity of education from early years through to Year 6.

Strengths

• Welcoming and caring school environment.
• Strong emphasis on mathematics with enthusiastic and confident learners.
• Effective support for pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND).
• Well-planned outdoor areas promoting physical fitness and social skills.
• Pupils are involved in a wide range of extra-curricular activities.

Areas for Improvement

• Curriculum revisions in some foundation subjects are not fully completed.
• Too many pupils are not developing quickly enough as fluent readers.

Admissions: local authority offers data from the Department for Education. A school is oversubscribed when at least 5% of the families who put it first were not offered a place, and undersubscribed when everyone who put it first got in but 10% or more of its places were unfilled in the Department's school capacity survey (the latest survey is used for entry years it does not cover). Places: Department for Education, School capacity, from local authorities' annual survey as at 1 May. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024–25); the survey was not run in 2020. Places include sixth form places. Forecasts are the local authority's own for the school's planning area, an area it uses to plan places that is not the school's catchment area. The forecast starts from a head count in 2025; the dashed line is the Department's estimate of places in that area, including those the authority has firm plans for. Planned places are cumulative, and only those with firm plans are counted.

In 2024–25 pupils at Tibshelf Infant School attended 94.6% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 14.6% of pupils were persistently absent, missing at least one session in ten (nationally 13.0%).

Sessions missed

Pupils persistently absent

Source: Department for Education, Pupil absence in schools in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). Persistent absence means missing 10% or more of sessions; severe absence means 50% or more. No figures were published for 2019/20.

In 2024–25, 0.0% of pupils at Tibshelf Infant School were suspended at least once (nationally 1.1%). No pupils were permanently excluded.

Pupils suspended at least once

Source: Department for Education, Suspensions and permanent exclusions in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). A pupil can be suspended more than once, so suspensions per 100 pupils can be higher than the share of pupils suspended. Very small numbers are hidden by the DfE. Exclusion figures dropped in 2020 and 2021 because of school closures.

In 2025–26 Tibshelf Infant School had 16.1 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 21.3% were no longer at the school a year later (nationally 15.7%).

Pupils per teacher

Teachers who left the school within a year

Source: Department for Education, School workforce in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). Pupils per teacher counts full-time-equivalent pupils and teachers. Turnover is the share of a year's teachers (full-time equivalent) who were not at the school the following year, whether they moved to another school or left state-funded teaching. Turnover and sickness figures run one year behind the ratios. Sick leave is the share of teachers who took at least one day in the year, so it swings widely at small schools, where a few teachers can make it 0% or 100%. The national figures are for all state schools of the same type.

In 2025–26, 21.4% of pupils at Tibshelf Infant School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 6.4% had an education, health and care (EHC) plan (nationally 4.1%).

Pupils by main type of need

Source: Department for Education, Special educational needs in England (the 2025–26 school census). SEN support is extra help in school without an EHC plan. National figures are for all state-funded primary schools. Counts are as published, with small numbers not hidden.

In 2025–26 Tibshelf Infant School received £8,709 and spent £10,913 for each of its 139 pupils. It ended the year with a deficit of £433,000 (-£3,124 per pupil).

Income per pupil

Spending per pupil

Source: Department for Education, Financial Benchmarking and Insights Tool. Each year is the one the financial year ends in (2024 is 2023–24).

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What is Tibshelf Infant School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Tibshelf Infant School is Good, from an inspection in January 2023.

When was Tibshelf Infant School last inspected by Ofsted?

Tibshelf Infant School was last inspected in January 2023.

How many pupils does Tibshelf Infant School have?

Tibshelf Infant School has 140 pupils on roll.

What age range does Tibshelf Infant School cover?

Tibshelf Infant School for pupils aged 3 to 7.

Where is Tibshelf Infant School?

Tibshelf Infant School is at 144 High Street, Tibshelf, Alfreton, Derbyshire, DE55 5PP.