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Schools in Derby

116 schools in the Derby local authority.

Schools

116

Open schools

Pupils

47,329

2025–26 census

Good or better

93%

88 of 95 graded

Academic Performance

4.5

out of 10 · 104 schools

Ofsted ratings

Outstanding
13 14%
Good
75 79%
Requires improvement
7 7%
Inadequate
0 0%
8 inspected since 2024, no overall grade9 superseded by a report card13 not judged1 safeguarding not effective
4.5
Academic Performance

Averaged over 104 of 116 schools that can be scored

Pupils

47,329

pupils on roll

Boys 51%49% Girls

Ethnicity

White
56%
Asian
22%
Black
9%
Mixed
9%
Chinese
<1%
Any other group
3%
Unclassified
1%

Ethnicity from 107 of 116 schools (46,089 pupils). Independent schools report roll and sex only.

Pupil characteristics

Free school meals
36.4%

16,795 of 46,089 pupils · 107 of 116 schools

First language not English
31.1%

14,322 of 46,089 pupils · 107 of 116 schools

Young carers
<1%

81 of 45,561 pupils · 100 of 116 schools

Schools by phase

Primary
76
Secondary
16
All-through
2
Special
9
Nursery
7
PRU
3
Not recorded
3

Top primary schools in Derby

The 20 highest-scoring primary schools here on Academic Performance, which combines the Ofsted judgement with DfE attainment.

Top secondary schools in Derby

The highest-scoring secondary schools here on Academic Performance, which combines the Ofsted judgement with DfE attainment.

Browse all 116 schools in Derby — filter by phase or Ofsted rating.

About schools in Derby

How many schools are there in Derby?
Derby has 116 open schools — 76 primary, 16 secondary, 9 special, 7 nursery, teaching 47,329 pupils in total.
How many schools in Derby are rated Good or Outstanding?
88 of the 95 schools holding an Ofsted grade — 93% — are rated Good or Outstanding, including 13 rated Outstanding. That share is measured against graded schools, not all 116: a school inspected since September 2024 has no overall grade at all.
What is the average Academic Performance in Derby?
4.5 out of 10, averaged across the 104 schools here that can be scored, where 5 is the national average. Academic Performance combines the Ofsted judgement with DfE attainment and is ranked against comparable schools, so it is neither figure on its own.
Why do some Derby schools have no Ofsted rating?
21 schools in Derby currently hold no overall grade. Ofsted stopped awarding single-word judgements in September 2024 and moved to a report card of separately graded areas, so schools inspected since then have no overall rating whatever the inspection found. Their profiles show the report card instead.
What does Derby local authority do?
A local authority is the body responsible for state education in its area — the level most admissions and school-place decisions are made at. Derby covers 116 schools and sits in the East Midlands region. It does not run academies or independent schools directly, though it still coordinates admissions for most of them.
How many pupils in Derby are eligible for free school meals?
36.4% — 16,795 of 46,089 pupils at the 107 schools that report it. Independent schools file a return with roll and sex only, so they are outside this figure rather than counted as zero.

Part of the East Midlands region.