Ripley Nursery School
Ripley, DE5 3HE · Derbyshire local authority
Ripley’s School Grade C− better than 23% of towns in England
What stands out about Ripley Nursery School
- No letter for this school: the reason is below.
- 0% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (fewer than England’s 25%)
- Ofsted: Good, December 2023 (shown, not graded)
- Homes in its postcode sector (DE5 3) sold for a median £225,000; Ripley’s is £214,475
Who goes here
DfE school census, January 2025102 pupils. SEN support is extra help in school for a special educational need; an EHC plan is the council’s legal plan for pupils who need more.
Girls and boys
No letter for Ripley Nursery School
Nursery schools sit no national tests, so there’s no letter.
Letters go to England’s open mainstream state schools with published Key Stage 2 or GCSE results (grammar schools included), each against the schools of its own phase.
Ofsted inspections
Shown, not graded: Ofsted is never part of a letter or the School Grade.
Ungraded inspection: School remains Good, December 2023.
Living near Ripley Nursery School
For families thinking of moving: what homes cost around the school, and the other schools close by.
Home prices in DE5 3, the school’s postcode sector
Ripley property prices →Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025
By type, the 36 months to August 2026
Homes in DE5 3 sell for a little over Ripley’s typical price. HM Land Registry Price Paid, standard sales. Catchments aren’t published, so the postcode sector stands in for “around the school”.
Schools within 1.6 miles
8 state schoolsLocation
Directions ↗Ripley, DE5 3HE
Ripley Nursery School: common questions
What is Ripley Nursery School’s Ofsted rating?
Its latest inspection outcome is Good (December 2023).
How much do houses cost near Ripley Nursery School?
Homes in its postcode sector, DE5 3, sold for a median £225,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (715 sales).
Sources: DfE Get Information about Schools (16 October 2026), Key Stage 2 performance tables (2023–2025, three-year average) and Key Stage 4 (2025/26, provisional); Ofsted state-funded school inspections as at 30 September 2026. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Also: DfE Key Stage 4 performance, schools data (2023/24 and 2024/25 final, 2025/26 provisional) and Key Stage 2 performance tables 2024/25 by subject; DfE school census, January 2025; DfE school-level applications and offers, September 2019 to 2026 entry; HM Land Registry Price Paid by postcode sector, 2010 to August 2026.
A school’s letter is our own summary of its published results against England’s schools of the same phase; Ripley’s School Grade is a separate grade, built from the results of the schools in and around the town against other towns. Map: © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026 (ONS boundaries). Northern Ireland: Source: NISRA; contains Land & Property Services data and Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland information, © Crown copyright, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Scotland: contains National Records of Scotland data, Registers of Scotland data and SEPA data, © Crown copyright / © SEPA 2025, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.