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Chestnut Nursery School - Exeter Nursery Schools Federation

Chestnut Nursery School - Exeter Nursery Schools Federation

NurseryAges 2–5Local authority nursery school

Exeter, EX2 6DJ · Devon local authority

Exeter’s School Grade B− better than 48% of towns in England

Photo: Simon Cobb · CC0 · Wikimedia Commons
How full
69 pupils
January 2026 census
Free school meals
21%
21 in 100 pupils eligible · outlined square = England’s schools (25)
The gist

What stands out about Chestnut Nursery School - Exeter Nursery Schools Federation

  • No letter for this school: the reason is below.
  • Ofsted: Good, November 2023 (shown, not graded)
  • Homes in its postcode sector (EX2 6) sold for a median £297,500; Exeter’s is £295,000

Who goes here

DfE school census, January 2025

62 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.

SEN support
0%England 15.3%
EHC plan
0%England 3.6%
English as an additional language
17.7%England 18.8%
Free school meals in the last 6 years
0%England 26.2%

Girls and boys

Girls 39%Boys 61%
Its letter

No letter for Chestnut Nursery School - Exeter Nursery Schools Federation

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

Ofsted inspections

Shown, not graded: Ofsted is never part of a letter or the School Grade.

Ungraded inspection: School remains Good (Improving), November 2023.

The full reports on Ofsted ↗

Living nearby

Living near Chestnut Nursery School - Exeter Nursery Schools Federation

For families thinking of moving: what homes cost around the school, and the other schools close by.

Home prices in EX2 6, the school’s postcode sector

Exeter property prices →
£297,500
median sale, 173 sales in 36 months · Exeter £295,000

Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025

£100K£150K£200K£250K£300K£350K£400K2010201520202025EX2 6Exeter
EX2 6Exeter

By type, the 36 months to August 2026

Detached
£625K
Semi-detached
£260K
Terraced
£276K
Flat
£218K
EX2 6Exeter

Homes in EX2 6 sell for about the same as Exeter’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

17 state schools
0.5 mi1 mi1.5 miNA−B+DBB−A−C+B−BB+DA−D−C+C−Chestnut Nursery School - E…
ABCDNo letterPrimarySecondary / all-through

Exeter, EX2 6DJ

Chestnut Nursery School - Exeter Nursery Schools Federation: common questions

What is Chestnut Nursery School - Exeter Nursery Schools Federation’s Ofsted rating?

Its latest inspection outcome is Good (November 2023).

How much do houses cost near Chestnut Nursery School - Exeter Nursery Schools Federation?

Homes in its postcode sector, EX2 6, sold for a median £297,500 over the 36 months to August 2026 (173 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; Exeter’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.