Fairfield Infant and Nursery School
Fairfield Infant and Nursery School is a converter academy in Buxton for boys and girls aged 2 to 7. Ofsted's last grade was inspected 2025, no overall grade.
Fairfield Infant & Nursery School, Bench Road, Fairfield, Buxton, SK17 7PQ0129822441fairfieldinfantandnurseryschool.co.ukMrs Jennifer Allin headteacherAll details
What Ofsted found
Ofsted's last full inspection was on 25 March 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.
Results
No published results yet for this school.
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.
Attendance and behaviour
In 2024/25 pupils were in school 94.1% of the time. Across similar schools in England it was 94.8%.
Attendance year by year
| Measure | 2024/25† | 2023/24† | 2022/23† | 2021/22† | 2020/21† | 2018/19† | England |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sessions missedOverall absence | 5.9% | 5.9% | 7.0% | 6.2% | 4.4% | 4.9% | 5.2% |
| Missed with permissionAuthorised absence | 4.5% | 4.6% | 5.9% | 5.5% | 3.9% | 3.7% | – |
| Missed without permissionUnauthorised absence | 1.4% | 1.3% | 1.2% | 0.7% | 0.5% | 1.2% | – |
| Pupils missing a lot of schoolPersistent absence | 14.1% | 18.1% | 18.3% | 15.7% | 9.1% | 11.7% | 12.8% |
† These attendance figures are for Fairfield Infant and Nursery School, the school this one replaced in June 2026. Same building and the same children. It got a new registration number, usually because it joined an academy trust.
Money
Money
From the council school accounts, year to March 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 primary schools, nearest first. Hover over a row to see it on the map.
| School | Type | Distance | Pupils | Ofsted | Score | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| St Peter's Church of England (VC) Junior School | Church of England | 270 m | 165 | Good 2024 | 28 | Compare |
| Buxton Infant School | Academy | 840 m | – | Good 2023 | – | Compare |
| St Anne's Catholic Voluntary Academy | Academy | 950 m | 252 | Good 2022 | 23 | Compare |
| Buxton Junior School | Academy | 0.9 miles | – | Good 2023 | – | Compare |
| Harpur Hill Primary School | Academy | 1.2 miles | – | Not inspected | – | Compare |
| Burbage Primary School | Academy | 1.4 miles | 355 | Good 2023 | – | Compare |
| Peak Dale Primary School | Council | 2.1 miles | 77 | No overall grade 2024 | 18 | Compare |
| Dove Holes CofE Primary School | Church of England | 2.8 miles | 41 | Good 2024 | 45 | Compare |
Questions parents ask
Is Fairfield Infant and Nursery School a good school?
Fairfield Infant and Nursery School doesn't have a score yet. Ofsted rated it not judged at its last inspection in March 2025.
What is Fairfield Infant and Nursery School's Ofsted rating?
Ofsted rated Fairfield Infant and Nursery School not judged at its last full inspection on 25 March 2025.
How many pupils does Fairfield Infant and Nursery School have?
The number of pupils is not published.
What is attendance like at Fairfield Infant and Nursery School?
Pupils were in school 94.1% of the time in 2024/25. Similar schools in England managed 94.8%. 14% of pupils missed at least a tenth of the year.
These answers come straight from the figures on this page and update when new data comes out.
Contact and details
- Address
- Fairfield Infant & Nursery School, Bench Road, Fairfield, Buxton, SK17 7PQ
- Telephone
- 0129822441
- Website
- www.fairfieldinfantandnurseryschool.co.uk
- Headteacher
- Mrs Jennifer Allin
- Type of school
- Converter academy (Academy converter, academies)
- Phase
- Primary school, ages 2-7, with nursery
- Gender
- Mixed
- Multi-academy trust
- Embark Multi Academy Trust (29 schools)
- Local authority
- Derbyshire
- Ward
- Stone Bench
- Constituency
- High Peak
- Setting
- Urban: Further from a major town or city
- Opened
- 1 June 2026 (academy converter)
- URN
- 151889 · LAESTAB 8302362 · UKPRN 10098186
- Formerly
- Fairfield Infant and Nursery School
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.
- Attendance: DfE pupil absence in schools in England, 2024/25 full year.
- Pupil characteristics: DfE school census, January 2026.
- Pupil premium: DfE allocations and conditions of grant, 2026 to 2027.
- Money: DfE financial benchmarking and insights tool, consistent financial reporting 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.