The admission authority for individual voluntary aided, foundation and academy schools are the governing body or academy trust.
All schools which are their own admission authority and are proposing changes to their admission arrangements for 2025 to 2026 have been invited to send a copy to the local authority.
Where they have been received, they can be provided on request.
Any comments regarding the proposed arrangements for voluntary aided, foundation and academy schools should be sent to the relevant school by the closing date set out by the school.
All other comments should be emailed to admissions.transport@derbyshire.gov.uk or posted to:
Children's Services
School Road
Whittington Moor
Chesterfield
Derbyshire
S41 8LJ
The closing date for the receipt of any comments is 24 November 2023.
Proposed admission arrangements for community and voluntary controlled schools – 2025/26
There is a proposed change to the oversubscription criteria in the case of voluntary controlled church schools, with the criteria for children whose parents request a place on religious grounds at community and controlled schools being removed from 2025.
Viewed the oversubscription criteria for community and controlled schools.
Proposed changes to published admission numbers (PANs)
Reductions to PAN
Bakewell Methodist Voluntary Controlled Junior School – reduction from 43 to 40 in line with accommodation, as well as the PAN of the Infant school.
Bradwell CE (Controlled) Infant School – reduction from 24 to 20 in line with capacity of school.
Hartington CE (Controlled) Primary School - reduction from 10 to 8, in line with capacity of school.
St Andrew’s CE (Controlled) Junior School – reduction from 65 to 60 in line with capacity of school.
Increases to PAN
Horsley CE (Controlled) Primary School – increase from 11 to 14 following review of school capacity.
Mapperley VC (Controlled) Primary School - increase from 8 to 10 following review of school capacity.
Removal of Y3 PAN
A Y3 PAN is currently in place at Shirland Primary School in order to provide key stage 2 places for pupils from the former Mickley Village Infant and Nursery School.
This will no longer be required as of September 2025, at which point places will be provided in all primary year groups at Mickley Village Primary and Nursery School. The adjustment to the Net Capacity and PAN for Shirland Primary School will follow on from this.
Proposed amendments to normal areas
Mickley Village Primary and Nursery School - removal of shared normal area for Key Stage 2 with Shirland Primary School
An extension of age range underway at the former Mickley Infant and Nursery School, now Mickley Village Primary and Nursery School, is such that the school will provide for all primary age groups as of September 2025.
It is therefore proposed that the shared normal area that is currently in place with Shirland Primary School for key stage 2 provision be removed.
A map of the normal area of Mickley Village Primary and Nursery School in relation to that of Shirland Primary School is attached to this page.
Re-establishment of the normal area of Sale and Davy's CE (Controlled) Primary School and continuation of current shared normal area between Chellaston Fields Spencer Academy and Sale and Davy's CE (Controlled) Primary School
The normal area of Chellaston Fields Spencer Academy historically sat within the normal area of Sale and Davys CE (Controlled) Primary School before the development of the housing and the new school.
We previously consulted to create a discrete normal area for Chellaston Fields from September 2020, removing it from that of Sale and Davys. It then became necessary to temporarily designate the normal area of Chellaston Fields as a shared normal area with Sale and Davys, to ensure that, due to the gradual opening of year groups at Chellaston Fields, children of all primary ages could be allocated a normal area school. This shared arrangement needed to stay in place until September 2025.
This consultation is to propose that from that date Sale and Davy's normal area revert permanently back to its original boundaries. The area of residential development at Chellaston Fields, covered also by the normal area for Chellaston Fields Spencer Academy, would remain within the normal area boundaries of both schools, providing parents with a choice of 2 normal area schools and providing more scope for securing a normal area primary school place.
A map of how the normal area of Chellaston Fields Spencer Academy relates to the normal area of Sale and Davys CE (Controlled) Primary School is attached to this page.
Co-ordinated admission arrangements
No changes (other than new dates for the 2025/26 admission round) are proposed to the co-ordinated admission arrangements.
Fair access protocol
You can view the fair access protocol.
Admission arrangements for voluntary aided, foundation and academy schools
You can view the proposed admission policies for these schools on each school's website.
Where schools are proposing no changes there is a requirement to consult only once every 7 years. Even if there are no changes, all schools which are their own admissions authority must determine their arrangements by 28 February 2024 and publish them by 15 March 2024. A copy of the admission arrangements must be posted on the school's website.
- Aldercar High School
- Aldercar Infant and Nursery School
- All Saints CE Voluntary Aided Primary School
- All Saints CofE Infant School
- All Saints CofE Junior School
- Anthony Gell
- Ashbrook Junior School
- Bakewell Infant School
- Bakewell Methodist Junior Academy
- Barrow Hill Primary
- Belmont Primary School
- Belper School and Sixth Form Centre
- Bishop Pursglove CE (Aided) Primary School
- Bolsover CofE Junior School
- Bonsall CE (Aided) Primary School
- Bradwell Junior School
- Brimington Junior School
- Brimington Manor Infant
- Brookfield Academy Trust
- Brooklands Primary School
- Buxton Community School
- Camms Endowed CE (Aided) Primary School
- Carsington and Hopton C of E (A) Primary School
- Castle View Primary School
- Chaucer Infant School
- Chaucer Junior School
- Chellaston Fields Spencer Academy
- Chinley Primary School
- Christ Church CE Primary
- Christ the King Catholic Primary School
- Church Gresley Infant and Nursery
- Cloudside Academy
- Clover Leys Spencer Academy
- Darley Churchtown Primary
- David Nieper Academy
- Denby Free CE (Aided) Primary School
- Dinting CE (Aided) Primary School
- Dovedale Primary School
- Dunston Primary Academy
- Eckington School
- Eckington Junior School
- Elmsleigh Infant School
- English Martyrs' Catholic Primary School
- Fairmeadows Foundation Primary School
- Field House Infant School
- Fitzherbert CE (Aided) Primary School
- Frederick Gent School
- Friesland School
- Fritchley CE (Aided) Primary School
- Gamesley Primary School
- Glossopdale School
- Granville Academy
- Hague Bar Primary School
- Hathersage St Michael's Church of England (Aided) Primary School
- Heath Primary School
- Heanor Gate Science College
- Heritage High School
- Highfields School Matlock
- Highfields Spencer Academy
- Hilton Spencer Academy
- Hodthorpe Primary School
- Holbrook CE Primary School
- Hollingwood Primary School
- Holme Hall Primary School
- Hope Valley College
- Horsley Woodhouse Primary School
- Howitt Primary School
- Immaculate Conception Catholic Primary School
- Inkersall Primary Academy
- Ironville and Codnor Park Primary
- John Flamsteed Community School
- John King Infant School
- John Port School
- Kensington Junior School
- Kilburn Junior School
- Killamarsh St Giles' CE Primary School
- Kirk Hallam Community Technology and Sports College
- Kirkstead Junior Academy
- Laceyfields Academy School
- Lady Manners School
- Ladywood Primary School
- Langley Mill Academy
- Langwith Bassett Junior Academy
- Linton Primary School
- Litton CE Aided Primary School
- Longford CE Primary School
- Long Lane Primary School
- Longstone CE (Aided) Primary School
- Longwood Infant School
- Loscoe Primary School
- Marston Montgomery Primary School
- Mary Swanwick Primary School
- Mercia Academy
- Model Village Primary School
- Morton Primary School
- Netherthorpe School
- New Whittington Primary School
- Newbold CE Primary School
- Newton Solney CE Voluntary Aided Infant School
- North Wingfield Primary and Nursery Academy
- Old Hall Junior School
- Outwood Academy Newbold
- Outwood Academy Hasland Hall
- Parkside Community School
- Pennine Way Junior School
- Pilsley CE Aided Primary School
- Poolsbrook Primary
- Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School
- Redhill Primary School
- Richardson Endowed Primary School
- Riddings Junior School
- Sale and Davy CE Primary School
- Sawley Infant and Nursery School
- Sawley Junior School
- Scarcliffe Primary School
- Scargill CE (Aided) Primary School
- Shardlow Primary school
- Shirebrook Academy
- Somercotes Infant School
- Somerlea Park Junior School
- Springfield Junior School
- Springwell Community College
- St Andrew's CE / Methodist Primary School (Dronfield)
- St Charles's Catholic Primary School
- St Edward's Catholic Primary School
- St Elizabeth's Catholic Primary School
- St George's CE (Aided) Primary School
- St Giles' CE (Aided) Primary School (Matlock)
- St John Houghton Catholic School
- St Joseph's Catholic and Church Of England Voluntary Aided Primary School
- St Joseph's Catholic Primary School (Matlock)
- St Joseph's Catholic Primary School (Shirebrook)
- St Laurence CE (Aided) Primary School
- St Margaret's Catholic Primary School
- St Mary's Catholic High School
- St Mary's Catholic Primary School (Chesterfield)
- St Mary's Catholic Primary School (Glossop)
- St Mary's Catholic Primary School (New Mills)
- St Philip Howard Catholic School
- St Thomas Catholic Primary School
- St Thomas More Catholic School - Science College
- Stanley Common Primary School
- Stonebroom Primary School
- Street Lane Primary
- Swanwick Hall School
- Taddington and Priestcliffe CE Aided Primary School
- Temple Normanton Junior Academy
- The Bolsover School
- The Curzon CE (Aided) Primary School
- The Ecclesbourne School
- The Green Flying High Academy
- The Long Eaton School
- The Mease Spencer Academy
- The Ormiston Ilkeston Enterprise Academy
- The Pingle School
- The Ripley Academy
- Three Trees Infant Academy
- Three Trees Junior Academy
- Tintwistle CE Primary School
- Tupton Hall School
- Tupton Primary School
- Turnditch CE Voluntary Aided Primary School
- Waingroves Primary School
- Walton Holymoorside Primary School
- Walton Peak Flying High Academy
- Walton on Trent CE Primary School
- Westfield Infant School
- Weston on Trent CE (Aided) Primary School
- Whaley Thorns Primary School
- Whittington Moor Nursery and Infant Academy
- William Gilbert CE Endowed Primary School
- William Rhodes Primary School
- Wilsthorpe Community School
- Woodthorpe Primary School