Derby second from bottom in new Ofsted primary school report

Derby is second from bottom in a national table showing percentages of pupils attending a good or outstanding primary school.

Camden sits at the top of the table with 92 per cent and Derby is second from bottom with 43 per cent. Only Coventry is lower with 42 per cent.

Derbyshire comes in below mid-table with 62 per cent.

Ofsted warned today that a child’s chances of gaining a decent education are still far too dependent on where they live.

And according to a new Ofsted report out today Derby is in the worst performing 20 per cent of all local authorities in terms of a pupil's chance of attending a good primary school - but also their chance of attending a good secondary school.

Ofsted's chief inspector Sir Michael Wilshaw said that a primary school pupil in England has, on average, a seven in 10 chance of being in a good or oustanding school, it says, but in some parts of the country, a child has a better than 90% chance, and in others a less than 50% chance.

“The inequities are stark,” Sir Michael says.

“Why is it that a child living in Derby or Doncaster local authority areas has only half the chance of attending a good or better primary or secondary school compared with a child living in Wigan or Darlington?"

He is likely to say that in future, rather than simply looking at schools individually, Ofsted will also look at how they are performing across local areas.

Sir Michael is expected to call for a league table of local councils, based on inspectors judgements of their schools.

The following table gives the percentages of pupils attending good or outstanding primary schools by local authority area in England.

The information comes from Ofsted, and covers primary schools only.

Camden 92%

Barnet 91%

Richmond upon Thames 90%

Sefton 90%

Trafford 90%

Islington 89%

Harrow 89%

Knowsley 89%

Sutton 87%

Wandsworth 86%

Bedford 85%

Windsor and Maidenhead 85%

Stockport 84%

Lambeth 84%

Kingston upon Thames 84%

Dorset 83%

Central Bedfordshire 83%

Northumberland 83%

Wirral 83%

Cheshire East 82%

Merton 81%

Middlesbrough 81%

Darlington 80%

Wigan 80%

Hartlepool 79%

West Berkshire 79%

Havering 79%

Lewisham 79%

Hammersmith and Fulham 79%

South Gloucestershire 78%

Buckinghamshire 78%

Blackpool 77%

Liverpool 77%

Solihull 77%

Bath and North East Somerset 77%

Rutland 76%

Newham 75%

Hampshire 75%

Gateshead 75%

Bracknell Forest 75%

Hillingdon 75%

Rochdale 75%

Swindon 74%

Halton 74%

Southwark 74%

Cheshire West and Chester 74%

Tower Hamlets 74%

Cumbria 74%

St Helens 74%

Wiltshire 73%

Kensington and Chelsea 73%

Cornwall 73%

Hertfordshire 73%

Gloucestershire 72%

Devon 72%

Oldham 72%

Redbridge 72%

Salford 72%

Warrington 72%

Brighton and Hove 72%

Nottinghamshire 72%

Blackburn with Darwen 71%

Kirklees 71%

North Tyneside 71%

Stockton-on-Tees 71%

Hounslow 71%

Nottingham 71%

Manchester 70%

East Sussex 70%

Torbay 70%

Bromley 70%

Wokingham 70%

Durham 70%

Herefordshire 70%

West Sussex 70%

Poole 69%

Calderdale 69%

Plymouth 69%

Leicestershire 68%

Newcastle upon Tyne 68%

Bolton 68%

Redcar and Cleveland 68%

Leeds 68%

North Yorkshire 68%

Greenwich 68%

Birmingham 67%

Surrey 67%

Ealing 67%

Lancashire 67%

Milton Keynes 67%

Warwickshire 66%

Cambridgeshire 66%

Southend-on-Sea 66%

Kingston upon Hull (city of) 66%

Brent 66%

Lincolnshire 66%

Bury 66%

Somerset 65%

Isle of Wight 65%

Westminster 65%

Sheffield 65%

Bradford 65%

North Lincolnshire 64%

Croydon 64%

Bexley 64%

York 64%

Leicester 64%

Southampton 64%

Barking and Dagenham 63%

Rotherham 63%

Slough 62%

Stoke-on-Trent 62%

Luton 62%

North Somerset 62%

Worcestershire 62%

Derbyshire 62%

Barnsley 62%

Suffolk 61%

Essex 61%

Enfield 61%

Bournemouth 61%

South Tyneside 61%

Staffordshire 60%

Doncaster 60%

Sunderland 60%

Peterborough 60%

Dudley 60%

Shropshire 59%

Walsall 59%

Oxfordshire 59%

Northamptonshire 59%

Norfolk 59%

Haringey 58%

Bristol (city of) 58%

Sandwell 57%

Tameside 57%

North East Lincolnshire 56%

Waltham Forest 56%

Hackney 56%

East Riding of Yorkshire 55%

Kent 55%

Medway 54%

Portsmouth 53%

Reading 53%

Wolverhampton 53%

Telford and Wrekin 53%

Wakefield 52%

Thurrock 49%

Derby 43%

Coventry 42%