Elmsleigh Infant & Nursery School
General Information
- Address: Queen's Drive, Swadlincote, DE11 0EG – View on map
- Phone: 01283216883
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Nicola Price
- Age range: 3-7 years
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 30 families put it first for 38 places – 8 for every 10 places. Every one of them was offered a place. 1 of the 38 places went to families living outside the council area. Children putting it first, for every 10 places: 2023 8 · 2024 9 · 2025 10 · 2026 8
- Sixth form: No
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: Does not apply
- Nursery provision: Yes
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 59
- % eligible for free school meals: 46.5%
- Pupil mix: 2 in 10 (less mixed than the South Derbyshire average)
- English as an additional language: 8% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 19.8% a year (South Derbyshire 12%, typical in England 13.9%)
- Where they went: about 80% moved to another school, 20% left state schools altogether (retirement, other careers, independent schools, abroad)
- Data years: 2022/23 to 2024/25 (average of 3 years, DfE school workforce census)
Teachers who moved school or left state schools in the year after each November, as a share of all the school's teachers. Some turnover is healthy – retirements, promotions, moving house. This is a small staff, so one or two teachers leaving moves the figure a lot.
Behaviour
Awaiting Data
Across Derbyshire: suspensions by reason
- Suspensions for sexual misconduct: 17 (0.3 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.2)
- Permanent exclusions for sexual misconduct: 2
- Suspensions for bullying: 23 (0.4 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.2)
- Suspensions for abuse against sexual orientation or gender identity: 7 (0.1 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.0)
- Data year: 2024/25 (DfE suspensions and exclusions statistics)
These are figures for all state primary schools in Derbyshire (the council area this school is in), not this school's own – the government doesn't publish them school by school. A suspension can have up to three reasons. Most sexual harassment between pupils never leads to a suspension, so these figures show only part of the picture.
Attendance
- Overall absence: 7.8%
- Persistently absent pupils: 26.1%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
- SEN unit for Autism 11 places · 11 pupils at the last count
- Resourced provision for Autism 16 places · 15 pupils at the last count
Places are usually for children with an EHC Plan and are arranged through the council, not the normal school application.
- Pupils on SEN Support: 21.3%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 25.8%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- SEN support but no specialist assessment of type of need: 27 pupils
- Speech, language and communications needs: 3 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 1 pupil
- Severe learning difficulty: 1 pupil
- Specific learning difficulty: 1 pupil
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 17 pupils
- Speech, language and communications needs: 13 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 7 pupils
- Profound and multiple learning difficulty: 1 pupil
- Moderate learning difficulty: 1 pupil
These figures show the makeup of the school.
Financials
Spending per pupil: £11,534 (2024-25)
2nd of 6 infant schools in South Derbyshire for spending per pupil
- #1Newton Solney CofE (Aided) Infant School£15,801
- #2Elmsleigh Infant & Nursery School£11,534
- #3Newhall Infant School£8,984
- #4Melbourne Infant & Nursery School£6,811
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