All-through
Royal School for the Deaf Derby
Ashbourne Road, Derby, DE22 3BH
Key facts
- Phase
- All-through
- Type
- Non-maintained special school
- Ages
- 3 to 19
- Intake
- Mixed
- Pupils
- 127 of 141 places
- Local authority
- Derby
- Sixth form
- Yes
- Nursery
- Yes
- Boarding
- Yes
- SEN provision
- HI - Hearing Impairment
Ofsted
Last inspected December 2024
Standards maintained
An ungraded inspection, which checks whether a school remains at its previous grade rather than re-grading it. Inspected under the previous framework, which used its own four-point scale. Ofsted now publishes a report card grading several areas separately, so these grades are not directly comparable with a recent inspection’s.
Read the full Ofsted report (opens in a new tab)GCSE results
10%
9.7
All published measures2024/2025
| Measure | Result |
|---|---|
| Attainment 8 | 9.7 |
| EBacc average point score | 0.58 |
| Entered the EBacc | 0% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 10% |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 10% |
From the Department for Education. Measures are published per year and suppressed where a cohort is too small, so some schools show fewer. There are no results for 2019/20 or 2020/21, when exams and assessments were cancelled.
Results over time4 years
Each measure on its own scale, over every year we hold.
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | 0% |
| 22/23 | 0% |
| 23/24 | 0% |
| 24/25 | 10% |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | -0.77 |
| 22/23 | -1.04 |
| 23/24 | -1.30 |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | 16.6 |
| 22/23 | 7.2 |
| 23/24 | 2.7 |
| 24/25 | 9.7 |
Ashbourne Road, Derby, DE22 3BH
Admissions
How to apply (opens in a new tab)
You apply through your council, not the school - even for academies and free schools. Applications close on 15 January, the year before starting.
Derby admissions (opens in a new tab)
The council publishes the oversubscription criteria and last year’s offer distances, which is the closest thing to knowing your chances.
If you are refused a place (opens in a new tab)
You can appeal, and you can join a waiting list at the same time. Accept whatever offer you get first - declining it can leave you with no place at all.
This school’s own admissions (opens in a new tab)
Schools that set their own criteria - faith schools, grammars, academies - publish them on their own site.
Contact
- Headteacher
- Paul Burrows
- Address
- Ashbourne Road, Derby, DE22 3BH
- Telephone
- 01332362512