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Cantrell Primary and Nursery School

Primary school · Academy sponsor led · ages 3 to 11 · Mixed

Cantrell Road, Bulwell, Nottingham, NG6 9HJ

  • Pupils381
  • Ages3 to 11
  • Latest Ofsted26 Mar 2024
  • FundingState-funded
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Ofsted inspections

Shown exactly as Ofsted published them, each with its own date.

Graded inspection · 26 Mar 2024

This inspection was of a predecessor school, before it reopened under its current reference number. Ofsted says grades of a predecessor school can’t, in law, transfer to the new one.

Category of concern: Serious weaknesses. What this means.

Overall effectiveness: Inadequate

  • Quality of educationRequires improvement
  • Behaviour and attitudesRequires improvement
  • Personal developmentRequires improvement
  • Leadership and managementInadequate
  • Early years provisionGood
  • Safeguarding is effectiveNo

Grades run from Outstanding to Inadequate (four steps, left to right).

S8 No Formal Designation Visit · report published 22 May 2024

Read the full reports on Ofsted’s website (opens in a new tab) — they explain the reasons behind each grade.

Source: Ofsted, state-funded school inspections and outcomes: management information (latest inspections as at 30 September 2026). Newer inspections may be on Ofsted’s website. How Ofsted inspections work.

Results

No results for this school are in the performance tables we use. Results are published for schools with pupils at the end of Year 6, Year 11 or 16 to 18 study, and figures are hidden when very few pupils are involved.

Source: Department for Education, school performance tables. England and local authority figures are the DfE’s own, for the same year.

Pupils and attendance

Pupils
381 (capacity 460)
191 girls, 190 boys
Eligible for free school meals
35.5% (currently eligible, census of January 2026)

Attendance

Overall absence

The share of possible mornings and afternoons missed, for any reason (authorised or not).

2024/25

This school
6%

Persistent absence

Pupils who missed 10% or more of their possible sessions.

2024/25

This school
19.8%

How absence is measured

Sources: Get Information about Schools; DfE school census and absence statistics via the performance tables. What these figures mean.

About the school

Type
Academy sponsor led (Academies)
Phase
Primary
Trust
TRANSFORM TRUST
Sponsor
Transform Trust
Boys, girls or mixed
Mixed
Religious character
Does not apply
Nursery
Has Nursery Classes
Sixth form
Does not have a sixth form
Opened
1 March 2025
Local authority
Nottingham
Parliamentary constituency
Nottingham North and Kimberley
URN
151545 (the DfE’s reference number for the school)

Source: Get Information about Schools (Department for Education). See the full record (opens in a new tab).

Admissions

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