Ridgeway Infant School

When there are more applications than places for 2027-28 (Reception), places are offered in this order of priority. Meeting a higher criterion beats meeting a lower one.

1. 1A 'looked after child’ or a child who was previously looked after but immediately after being looked after became subject to an adoption, child arrangements, or special guardianship order. A looked-after child is a child who is (a) in the care of a local authority, or (b) being provided with accommodation by a local authority in the exercise of their social services functions (see the definition in section 22(1) of the Children Act (1989).
2. 2Children who appear to the Council to have been in state care outside of England and ceased to be in state care as a result of being adopted. A child is regarded as having been in state care in a place outside of England if they were accommodated by a public authority, a religious organisation, or any other provider of care whose sole purpose is to benefit society.
3. 3Children who are both living in the catchment area served by the school and have brothers or sisters* of compulsory school age still attending the school at the time of their admission.
4. 4Other children living in the catchment area.
5. 5Children who do not live in the catchment area served by the school but who have brothers or sisters* of compulsory school age still attending the school at the time of their admission.
6. 6In the case of church schools, children whose parents request a place on religious grounds as stated on their application form.
7. 7Other children whose parents have requested a place.
8. 8Children whose parents did not request a place by the closing date.

If two applications tie: When choices have to be made between children satisfying the same criteria, children living nearest to the school measured by a straight line have priority. The line will be measured from the centre of the home address to the school using the national Ordnance Survey set points. If the two measurements are the same, we will give priority to the child living nearest the school measured by the shortest walking route from the home address to the school’s main entrance. In the unlikely event the two walking routes measure the same distance, the place will be allocated using an independently verified random allocation process. The ‘home address is the address of the primary carer of the child, as shown by who receives the Child Benefit.

•Opening date for applications for starting reception and/or transfering from infant to junior school. 4 November 2026 •Information is distributed by the Council to Derby City parents or via nursery schools where the child 14 November attends a nursery attached to a city infant or primary school. 2026 •Closing date for receipt of Common Application Form (CAF). 15 January 2027 •The Council sends applications to other Council's for schools in their area. 15 February 2027 •Own admission authority schools listed in Note 1 to send to the Council a list of children who can be offered a place and those who cannot (all applications to be ranked). 6 March 2027 •The Council to determine which provisional offers will be made at Derby City schools taking account of the ranking of the preferences on CAFs and inform other Council's and admission authorities of those provisional 13 March offers which are be accepted and those of which are to be withdrawn. 2027 •Inform other Council's and admission authorities of which offers are to be confirmed for places in their primary schools and and those of which are to be withdrawn.. 4 April 2027 •National Offer Day -parents receive their decisions. Emails sent to Derby City parents who applied online. Offers posted to parents resident in Derby City. 16 April 2027 •Closing date for the Council's maintained school appeals to be received. 3 June 2027 Note 1 – own admission authority primary schools. Allenton Primary, Alvaston Junior, Akaal Primary, Arboretum Primary, Ashwood Spencer Primary, Ash Croft Primary, Asterdale Primary, The Bemrose School, Beaufort Primary, Bishops Lonsdale Church of England Primary, Borrow Wood Primary, Brackensdale Spencer Primary, Breadsall Hilltop Primary, Brookfield Primary, Carlyle Infant and Nursery, Castleward Spencer Academy, Cavendish Close Junior, Chaddesden Park Primary, Chellaston Infant, Chellaston Junior, Cherry Tree Primary, Cottons Farm Primary, Derwent Primary, Firs Primary, Grampian Primary, Griffe Field Primary, Hackwood Primary, Hardwick Primary, Homefields Primary, Lakeside Primary, Landau Forte Academy Moorhead, Lawn Primary, Oakwood Junior, Pear Tree Junior, Portway Junior, Ravensdale Junior, Reigate Primary, Shelton Junior School, Springfield Primary, St Albans Catholic Primary, St Chads Church of England Primary, St Georges Catholic Primary, St James’s Church of England Infant and Nursery, St James’ Church of England Junior, St John Fisher Catholic Primary, St Joseph’s Catholic Primary, St Mary’s Catholic Primary, St Peter’s Church of England Junior, St Werburgh’s Church of England Primary, Walter Evans Church of England Primary, Wyndham Spencer Primary, Village Primary, Zaytouna Primary School. SCHOOL ADMISSION APPEALS TIMETABLE 2027/2028 Primary School •National Offer Day for pupils starting reception and moving from infant school to junior school Thursday 16 April 2027 •Closing date for all Infant, Junior and Primary school appeals for community and maintained schools. •NB: for details of appeal closing dates for all other secondary Tuesday 2 June 2027 school, please contact the school directly •Infant/Junior and Primary School appeal hearing dates for community and maintained schools. w/c 29 June 2027 •NB for details of appeal dates for Academies, Foundation or w/c 6 July 2027 Voluntary Aided School please contact the school directly w/c 13 July 2027 Please Note: These dates are scheduled 2 years in advance and may be subject to change. Derby City Council Maintained School Published Admission Numbers (PANs) 2027/2028 School Name Published Admission Number Number of Nursery Places Alvaston Infant and Nursery School 90 52 Ashgate Primary School 45 Becket Primary School 30 26 Cavendish Close Infant School 90 39 Dale Community Primary School KS1 -75, KS2 – 81 Gayton Junior School 90 Littleover Community School 295 Markeaton Primary School 60 (Enhanced Resource) Meadow Farm Primary School 30 26 Mickleover Primary School 60 Oakwood Infant School 90 39 Parkview Primary School 30 26 Pear Tree Infant School 90 Portway Infant School 60 Ravensdale Infant School 90 30 Redwood Primary School 90 50 Ridgeway Infant School 90 Roe Farm Primary School 45 – proposed PAN 30 52 Rosehill Infant and Nursery School 50 39 Shelton Infant School 70 – proposed PAN 60 26 Silverhill Primary School 60 Wren Park Primary School 54 Derby City Council’s Maintained School ADMISSION ARRANGEMENTS 2027/2028 If the school is oversubscribed, after the admission of pupils with an Education Health and Care Plan (EHCP) where the school is named in the EHCP, priority for admission will be given to those children who meet the criteria set out below, in order:

Published by the admission authority. Meeting a criterion never guarantees a place — it sets the order places are offered in. Full detail, other entry points and previous years are on the Admissions tab.