Reigate Park Primary Academy

About Reigate Park Primary Academy

Reigate Park Primary Academy sits in Derby, one of 74 primary schools in the local authority. It ranks 37th among them, placing it in the bottom half of Derby primaries on the key stage two expected standard measure. The top-performing peers in the area are Griffe Field Primary School, Gayton Junior School, and St Mary's Catholic Voluntary Academy, all of which outrank it. The school is a mixed, state primary for ages three to eleven, with no religious character. It has a nursery provision and is currently oversubscribed: for the 2025/26 intake, 36 first-preference applications were made for 43 total places, giving an oversubscription ratio of 1.37. The headteacher is Karen Ratcliff. In its most recent Ofsted inspection, carried out in January 2023, the school was rated Good overall, with Good marks across all five categories including quality of education, behaviour and attitudes, personal development, leadership and management, and early years provision. That rating has been consistent since its previous inspection in 2018, which also judged it Good overall.

Academically, the school's key stage two results for 2023/24 show a mixed picture. The proportion of pupils reaching the expected standard in reading, writing and maths combined was 50%, below the Derby local authority average of 55%. In individual subjects, 61% met the expected standard in reading, 61% in writing, and 68% in maths. At the higher standard, the figures drop sharply: 18% in reading, 9% in maths, and 0% in writing. Average scaled scores were 102 in reading and 103 in maths. Progress scores are not available for any of the three subjects. Nationally, the school ranks 10,583 out of 13,686 primaries on the combined expected standard metric, placing it in the bottom quarter. Within the East Midlands region, it ranks 1,006 out of 1,353. The school has a relatively high proportion of pupils eligible for free school meals at 37.6%, well above the national average, which may partly contextualise these outcomes.

The school offers a broad range of facilities including playing fields, a sports hall, library, music rooms, gymnasium, ICT suite, art studios, dining hall, and a chapel. Sports on offer include netball, swimming, cross country, rounders, football, and athletics, while clubs include choir, chess, art club, coding, and eco club. SEND provision is extensive, covering specific learning difficulties like dyslexia, moderate learning difficulty, social emotional and mental health needs, speech language and communication needs, hearing impairment, physical disability, and autistic spectrum disorder, plus a resourced provision. The school is oversubscribed, with 59 total applications for 43 places, so families should be prepared for competition. It will suit parents who value a Good-rated local primary with strong SEND support and a wide extracurricular offer, but who are comfortable with below-average academic outcomes compared with the Derby average and the top-ranked peers nearby.

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