Esteem Valley Academy
Esteem Valley Academy is an academy alternative provision converter in Ilkeston for boys and girls aged 5 to 16. It has 103 pupils and room for 182. About 70 in every 100 pupils come from a low-income family, far more than at most schools in England. Ofsted's last grade was inspected 2025, no overall grade.
Bennerley Avenue, Cotmanhay, Ilkeston, DE7 8PF0115 850 0820esteemvalleyacademy.co.ukMr Kevin Wildrianne headteacherAll details
What Ofsted found
Ofsted's last full inspection was on 8 July 2025, back when it gave schools one overall grade. Read the report on Ofsted's website.
Not judged Between September 2024 and November 2025, Ofsted graded each area but stopped giving one overall word.
Earlier inspections (1)
| Date | Type | Outcome |
|---|---|---|
| 28 June 2023 | Ungraded | School remains Good (Concerns) - S5 Next |
Getting a place
Admissions policy not published.
Each council publishes its own figures on how many families applied and how far away the last child to get a place lived. We are adding councils one at a time. If you have a link to Derbyshire council's admissions booklet, send it to us.
Who goes here
Who the school teaches, from the latest school census.
The most common needs among pupils getting extra support: emotional and mental health (60), SEN support but no specialist assessment of type of need (12), Autistic spectrum disorder (9), Moderate learning difficulty (8), Specific learning difficulty (4), language and communications needs (4).
How the mix of pupils has changed
| Census | 2026 | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils on roll | 103 | 124 | 113 | 92 | 86 | 96 |
| Pupils from low-income familiesFree school meals | 70% | 70% | 66% | 66% | 58% | 53% |
| Pupils learning EnglishEnglish as an additional language | 0% | 2% | 1% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| Pupils getting extra supportSEN support | – | 79% | 85% | 71% | 76% | 77% |
| Pupils with an EHC planEducation, health and care plans | – | 20% | 15% | 29% | 24% | 23% |
What pupils do next
After GCSEs
Where the 40 pupils who left in 2022/23 were a year later.
Among pupils from low-income families it was 31%, compared with 36% for everyone else.
Earlier years
| Destination | 2022/23 leavers | 2021/22 leavers | 2020/21 leavers |
|---|---|---|---|
| Still in education, work or training | 33% | 36% | 42% |
| Education | 30% | 26% | 29% |
| Apprenticeship | 0% | 0% | 4% |
| Work | 3% | 10% | 9% |
| Not in education, work or training | 18% | 26% | 29% |
Staff and money
From the government's count of school staff in November 2025 and the school's published accounts.
Money
From the academy accounts return, year to August 2025. The per-pupil figures are compared with other primary schools in England that report their accounts the same way.
Reserves are the money left over at the end of the year, kept back for emergencies and big projects. Being in the red year after year is a warning sign. Very large reserves can mean money sitting in the bank instead of being spent on today's pupils. Academy figures are rounded to the nearest £1,000 and include a share of any money the trust holds centrally.
The area around the school
Crime figures come from police.uk. The police record each crime at the nearest of a fixed set of map points rather than the exact spot, so “within 500 m” is only rough. House prices are from HM Land Registry sales nearby over the last two years.
Nearby schools
The closest schools, nearest first. Hover over a row to see it on the map.
| School | Type | Distance | Pupils | Ofsted | Score | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bennerley Fields School | Academy | 290 m | 105 | Good 2023 | – | Compare |
| Cotmanhay Junior School | Council | 430 m | 273 | No overall grade 2024 | 6 | Compare |
| Cotmanhay Infant and Nursery School | Council | 430 m | 229 | Report card 2026 | 12 | Compare |
| Charlotte Nursery and Infant School | Council | 790 m | 288 | No overall grade 2025 | 3 | Compare |
| Granby Junior School | Council | 820 m | 286 | No overall grade 2024 | 7 | Compare |
| Blue Mountain Education | Independent | 0.7 miles | 9 | Not inspected | – | Compare |
| Awsworth Primary and Nursery School | Academy | 0.9 miles | 262 | Good 2022 | 36 | Compare |
| Chaucer Junior School | Academy | 1.0 miles | 233 | Not inspected | 63 | Compare |
Questions parents ask
Is Esteem Valley Academy a good school?
Esteem Valley Academy doesn't have a score yet. Ofsted rated it not judged at its last inspection in July 2025.
What is Esteem Valley Academy's Ofsted rating?
Ofsted rated Esteem Valley Academy not judged at its last full inspection on 8 July 2025.
How many pupils does Esteem Valley Academy have?
103 pupils aged 5 to 16 were on the roll in January 2026. It has 182 places, so it is 57% full.
These answers come straight from the figures on this page and update when new data comes out.
Contact and details
- Address
- Bennerley Avenue, Cotmanhay, Ilkeston, DE7 8PF
- Telephone
- 0115 850 0820
- Website
- www.esteemvalleyacademy.co.uk
- Headteacher
- Mr Kevin Wildrianne
- Type of school
- Academy alternative provision converter (Academy alternative provision converter, academies)
- Phase
- Pupil referral unit / alternative provision, ages 5-16
- Gender
- Mixed
- Multi-academy trust
- Esteem Multi-Academy Trust (14 schools)
- Local authority
- Derbyshire
- Ward
- Cotmanhay
- Constituency
- Erewash
- Setting
- Urban: Nearer to a major town or city
- Opened
- 1 December 2018 (academy converter)
- URN
- 146055 · LAESTAB 8301102 · UKPRN 10081921
- Formerly
- Amber Valley & Erewash Support Centre
Where these figures come from
- School details: Department for Education, Get Information About Schools, refreshed daily (this page rebuilt 13 September 2026).
- Inspections: Ofsted management information, monthly; latest publication in our data 27 August 2026.
- Pupil characteristics: DfE school census, January 2026.
- Staff: DfE school workforce census, November 2025.
- Pupil premium: DfE allocations and conditions of grant, 2026 to 2027.
- Money: DfE financial benchmarking and insights tool, academy accounts return 2024/25.
- Neighbourhood: police.uk street-level crime, HM Land Registry price paid data, NaPTAN bus stops, English Indices of Deprivation 2025.
- All under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Full list and update calendar.