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Brunel Nursery School

NurseryAges 3–4Local authority nursery school

Blackburn, BB1 1ES · Blackburn with Darwen local authority

Blackburn’s School Grade B better than 62% of towns in England

How full
34 pupils
January 2026 census
Free school meals
0%
0 in 100 pupils eligible · outlined square = England’s schools (25)
The gist

What stands out about Brunel 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 report card, May 2026: achievement needs attention, safeguarding met (shown, not graded)
  • Homes in its postcode sector (BB1 1) sold for a median £125,000; Blackburn’s is £170,000

Who goes here

DfE school census, January 2025

28 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
7.1%England 15.3%
EHC plan
0%England 3.6%
English as an additional language
96.4%England 18.8%
Free school meals in the last 6 years
0%England 26.2%

Girls and boys

Girls 54%Boys 46%
Its letter

No letter for Brunel 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

Ofsted inspections

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

Report card, inspection starting May 2026.

SafeguardingMet
AchievementNeeds attention
Curriculum and teachingNeeds attention
InclusionExpected standard
Attendance and behaviourExpected standard
Personal development and well-beingExpected standard
Leadership and governanceNeeds attention

Before the report card: Ungraded inspection: School remains Good, April 2022.

The full reports on Ofsted ↗

Living nearby

Living near Brunel Nursery School

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

Home prices in BB1 1, the school’s postcode sector

Blackburn property prices →
£125,000
median sale, 126 sales in 36 months · Blackburn £170,000

Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025

£50K£100K£150K£200K2010201520202025BB1 1Blackburn
BB1 1Blackburn

By type, the 36 months to August 2026

Semi-detached
£150K
Terraced
£120K
Flat
£67K
BB1 1Blackburn

Homes in BB1 1 sell for well under Blackburn’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

38 state schools
0.5 mi1 mi1.5 miNA−B−DB+AC+A−ABBBB+C+C−C−C−CBB+C+CC−A+B+A+ADCCD−DCDD−DBrunel Nursery School
ABCDNo letterPrimarySecondary / all-through

Blackburn, BB1 1ES

Brunel Nursery School: common questions

What is Brunel Nursery School’s Ofsted rating?

Its latest inspection (May 2026) gave a report card: achievement needs attention, safeguarding met. Ofsted stopped giving one-word overall grades in September 2024.

How much do houses cost near Brunel Nursery School?

Homes in its postcode sector, BB1 1, sold for a median £125,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (126 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; Blackburn’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.