Fairfield Infant and Nursery School
Not yet inspected as an academy (opened June 2026)
Predecessor school (Fairfield Infant and Nursery School, URN 112699): Ofsted quality of education Good, March 2025 · Its reports
Ages2 - 7
Pupils112
Not yet inspected as an academy (opened June 2026)
Ages2 - 7
Pupils112
Predecessor school (Fairfield Infant and Nursery School, URN 112699): Ofsted quality of education Good, March 2025 · Its reports
The answers
Under-subscribed
Demand
2026-27 · Reception · The applications and first preferences for 2026-27 (Reception) are DfE's figures for its predecessor, Fairfield Infant and Nursery School, before it converted.
Admission figures: 2026-27
Apply by Fri 15 Jan 2027 · offers Fri 16 Apr 2027in 62 days
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How places are decided at Fairfield Infant and Nursery School
Priority order when there are more applications than places, 2027-28 (Reception):
- 1Looked after and all previously looked after children, including children who appear to have left state care outside England through adoption — All looked after and previously looked after children, including children the admission authority judges were in state care outside England and left it through adoption. Previously looked after children are those who stopped being looked after because they were adopted (or made subject to a child arrangements order or special guardianship order). Wherever the Admissions Code refers to previously looked after children, it means children adopted (or placed under child arrangements orders or special guardianship orders) straight after being looked after, and children who appear (to the admission authority) to have left state care outside England through adoption.
- 2Children living in the normal area served by the school when applying and when admitted, with siblings attending the school at both times — Children living in the normal area served by the school both when the application is made and when the child is admitted, with siblings attending the school at both of those times.
- 3Children living in the normal area served by the school both when the application is made and when the child is admitted.
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- 4Children not living in the normal area served by the school who have siblings attending the school both when the application is made and when the child is admitted.
- 5Other children whose parents have requested a place.
Embark Federation is the admission authority for all its schools and publishes ONE determined policy a year. This is School Admissions Arrangements 2027-2028, determined February 2026 at Trust Board level. The five criteria are the trust's and are shared by every Embark school; the PAN is as printed in the same document's per-school list. Criteria 2, 3 and 4 turn on 'the normal area served by the school' - Derbyshire's normal-area definition - so this school's catchment is part of its ranked order. Tie-break: Where choices have to be made between children satisfying the same criterion, those living nearest to the school measured by straight line distance are given preference.
Published by the admission authority. A criterion sets the order places are offered in and never guarantees a place.
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Check your postcode →Appeals in this council · 12% successful (2025-26 entry)
12% of primary admission appeals heard in Derbyshire County Council were successful (2025-26 entry — 108 heard).
2025-26: 12%2024-25: 10%2023-24: 14%2022-23: 25%2021-22: 38%
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September 2026 entry: places were left, and everyone who put it first was offered one.
We can’t say from this how far away a family could live and still get a place.
How places are decided at Fairfield Infant and Nursery School
Priority order when there are more applications than places, 2027-28 (Reception):
- 1Looked after and all previously looked after children, including children who appear to have left state care outside England through adoption — All looked after and previously looked after children, including children the admission authority judges were in state care outside England and left it through adoption. Previously looked after children are those who stopped being looked after because they were adopted (or made subject to a child arrangements order or special guardianship order). Wherever the Admissions Code refers to previously looked after children, it means children adopted (or placed under child arrangements orders or special guardianship orders) straight after being looked after, and children who appear (to the admission authority) to have left state care outside England through adoption.