School profile
Unstone Junior School
Main Road, Unstone, Dronfield, Derbyshire, S18 4AB
Overview
Unstone Junior School is a state-funded school (community school) in Dronfield, East Midlands, for pupils aged 7–11. This summary is generated only from official structured fields.
School details
- Official establishment type
- Community school
- Establishment group
- Local authority maintained schools
- Phase of education
- Primary
- Age range
- Ages 7–11
- Gender of entry
- Mixed
- Boarding
- No boarders
- Sixth form
- No
- School capacity
- 76
- Pupils on roll
- 49
- URN
- 112642
Admissions
- Local authority
- Derbyshire
- Federation
- Unstone Schools Federation
Contact the school or your local authority for catchment and application deadlines.
School places
DfE school capacity survey · May 2025 (2024/25)
- Capacity at survey date
- 76
- Pupils on roll
- 57
- Unfilled places at survey date
- 19
A dated snapshot from the Department for Education school capacity survey, separate from the school details above. Unfilled places at the survey date do not mean places are currently available for admission. About this data
Official performance data
School performance
Official Department for Education results for this school. Results are shown for the academic year they relate to.
Primary
2024/25 results
Reading, writing & maths — meeting the expected standard
- School
- 67%
- England
- 62%
Pupils included: 18
Reading, writing & maths — achieving a higher standard
- School
- 0%
- England
- 8%
Pupils included: 18
Source: Department for Education · School performance data.
Official inspection data
Ofsted inspections
Inspection information published by Ofsted, shown in Ofsted's own words.
Ofsted report card
Inspected 13 January 2026 · Published 19 April 2026
Renewed education inspection framework
- Safeguarding standards
- Met
- Inclusion
- Needs attention
- Curriculum and teaching
- Urgent improvement
- Achievement
- Needs attention
- Attendance and behaviour
- Expected standard
- Personal development and wellbeing
- Expected standard
- Early years (where applicable)
- Not applicable
- Post-16 provision (where applicable)
- Not applicable
- Leadership and governance
- Urgent improvement
Ofsted recorded this school in a category of concern: Special measures. The official report explains what this means and what happens next.
Previous inspection information
Ofsted inspection
Inspected 23 November 2021 · Published 19 January 2022
Overall effectiveness: Good
Safeguarding was effective: Yes
Ofsted changed how it inspects and reports on schools in November 2025. Judgements from the previous and current frameworks use different systems and should not be directly compared.
School Nest shows the inspection information Ofsted currently publishes for this school. It is not a complete record of every inspection the school has ever had.
Source: Ofsted · Inspections and outcomes. Official Ofsted page for this school
Location
- Address
- Main Road, Unstone, Dronfield, Derbyshire, S18 4AB
- Local authority
- Derbyshire
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