Orchard Community Primary School
Primary school in Derby, Leicestershire. Standards maintained (Jan 2025).
Latest graded inspection
Inspected 16 November 2021, report published 18 January 2022, under the inspection system used from 2019 to 2025.
This grade was given to Orchard Community Primary School (its Ofsted page), the school this one replaced when it became an academy. Orchard Community Primary School hasn’t been inspected under its own name yet, so Ofsted’s page for it shows no grade.
Good overall. The school was doing well. The most common grade under the previous system. 76% of schools whose latest graded inspection was under this system got Good.
| Area | Grade |
|---|---|
| Quality of education | Good |
| Behaviour and attitudes | Good |
| Personal development | Outstanding |
| Leadership and management | Good |
| Early years | Good |
| Safeguarding effective | Yes |
These grades come from the system Ofsted replaced in November 2025. They stay on record until the school’s next inspection, when it gets a report card instead. More about the old grades.
Since then: ungraded inspection
Inspected 8 January 2025, report published 2 March 2025.
Standards maintained
An ungraded inspection is a shorter visit to check that a school is still at the grade it was given at its last full inspection. It doesn’t award a new grade. More about ungraded inspections.
Next inspection: around January 2029
The last inspection was in January 2025. Schools are usually inspected about every four years.
An estimate, not an Ofsted date. Ofsted doesn’t publish its schedule and gives schools about a day’s notice. The law says the next inspection must be by August 2030 at the latest, and Ofsted can visit sooner if it has concerns.
Nearby primary schools
- 0.2 milesSt Edward's Church of England Primary School
School remains Good (Oct 2022)
- 0.7 milesFoxbridge Primary School
No overall grade. Quality of education good (Feb 2025)
- 0.8 milesHemington Primary School
No overall grade. Quality of education good (Nov 2024)
- 1.8 milesDiseworth Church of England Primary School
Good (May 2024)
- 2.0 milesShardlow Primary School
Good (Oct 2022)
Ofsted data as at 30 September 2026, school details from Get Information about Schools, 26 October 2026.