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Amber Valley
East Midlands, England · population ~129k · 69 state-funded schools
Median full-time pay
ONS ASHE residence basis · 2025
Median house price
ONS HPSSA-9 · Year ending Sep 2025
Median monthly rent
ONS PIPR · 2026-03
Council tax (Band D)
MHCLG / Welsh Gov · 2026-27
Crime per 1,000
ONS PFA · Year ending Dec 2025
IMD score
MHCLG IoD · 2019
Schools Good+ (legacy)
Legacy 1-4 grades only · Ofsted Feb 2026 snapshot
Schools Outstanding
Of 50 legacy-graded schools · Ofsted Feb 2026 snapshot
State-funded schools in Amber Valley
69 schools listed by DfE GIAS, with current judgements from the Ofsted Feb 2026 Management Information snapshot. Among schools with a current legacy Ofsted 1-4 grade (50 of 69 here), 95.8% of pupils attend schools rated Good or Outstanding — combining full OEIF graded inspections and ungraded check-ins that confirmed the school remains at its last grade. A further 1 school (1.4% of the LA) has been re-inspected under Ofsted's new post-Sept-2024 report-card framework; those judgements appear separately on each school's row below.
The Last inspection column shows the most recent activity per school — graded inspection, check-in, or new-framework report card. Ofsted retired the single 1-4 grade in September 2024; new inspections produce multi-axis "report card" judgements (Leadership, Achievement, Curriculum, Behaviour, Personal development, Inclusion, Safeguarding) that aren't directly comparable to the legacy 1-4. Where a school has both an older 1-4 grade and a fresh report card, the 1-4 is shown for continuity but the report-card sub-judgments below it are the current finding. The "·" mark next to a grade indicates the value came from an ungraded check confirming the school's last full grade still applies.
Showing 20 of 69 schools.
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The Ecclesbourne School | Secondary | 1,576 | Good | 19/09/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Heanor Gate Spencer Academy | Secondary | 1,423 | Outstanding | 27/06/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Belper School and Sixth Form Centre | Secondary | 1,186 | Not graded | 20/05/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
Swanwick Hall School | Secondary | 1,095 | Good | 10/01/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
The Ripley Academy | Secondary | 900 | Good | 05/02/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
John Flamsteed Community School | Secondary | 834 | Not graded | 14/01/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
David Nieper Academy | Secondary | 810 | Good | 27/09/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
Aldercar High School | Secondary | 690 | Not graded | — | OfstedWebsite |
St John's CofE Primary School and Nursery | Primary | 396 | Good | 14/02/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Swanwick Primary School | Primary | 383 | Not graded | 01/04/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
Ripley St John's Church of England Primary School and Nursery | Primary | 370 | Good· | 13/06/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Howitt Primary Community School | Primary | 360 | Good | 27/06/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Ripley Junior School | Primary | 336 | Good· | 20/06/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Pottery Primary School | Primary | 302 | Requires Improvement | 17/10/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Langley Mill Academy | Primary | 295 | Not graded | 14/01/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
Duffield the Meadows Primary School | Primary | 292 | Not graded | 01/10/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Long Row Primary School | Primary | 264 | Good· | 14/02/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
William Gilbert Endowed Church of England Primary School | Primary | 247 | Outstanding | 14/11/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Codnor Community Primary School Church of England Controlled | Primary | 243 | Good· | 24/11/2021 | OfstedWebsite |
Coppice Primary School | Primary | 232 | Good | 13/03/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
How we sourced this
Indicators: Pay (ONS ASHE residence), house price (ONS HPSSA-9 median for England + Wales, UK HPI mean for Scotland), rent (ONS PIPR newly-signed lets for E+W, Scot Gov 2-bed advertised median for Scotland), council tax (MHCLG England + Welsh Gov Wales), crime (ONS PFA, E+W only), IMD (MHCLG IoD 2019, England only), school quality (Ofsted % of pupils in schools currently rated under the legacy 1-4 framework as Good or Outstanding, combining full OEIF grades with ungraded check-ins — England only. Schools re-inspected under Ofsted's new post-Sept-2024 report-card framework are excludedfrom this denominator and shown separately on each school's row).
Schools: joined from DfE GIAS edubasealldata snapshot (2026-05-13, the canonical UK school registry) with Ofsted's Management Information snapshot (Feb 2026, current grades and pupil counts). Coordinates converted from OSGB36 (British National Grid) to WGS84 using the standard Helmert 7-parameter transformation.
Editorial position: we surface the uncomfortable facts (knife crime per 1,000, IMD deprivation, Band D bills) alongside the affordability story. No estate-agent gloss. Where methodologies differ across UK nations (rents, deprivation, council tax) we disclose the difference rather than silently merging.
Some indicators show "—" for Scotland / Wales / Northern Ireland because each nation publishes equivalents on a different methodology that explicitly cannot be cross-compared per official guidance.