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Turncroft Nursery School

NurseryAges 3–4Local authority nursery school

Darwen, BB3 2DN · Blackburn with Darwen local authority

Darwen’s School Grade D better than 7% of towns in England

How full
58 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 Turncroft 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: Inspected, May 2025 (shown, not graded)
  • Homes in its postcode sector (BB3 2) sold for a median £153,500; Darwen’s is £140,000

Who goes here

DfE school census, January 2025

59 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
20.3%England 18.8%
Free school meals in the last 6 years
0%England 26.2%

Girls and boys

Girls 59%Boys 41%
Its letter

No letter for Turncroft 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.

Ungraded inspection: Standards maintained, May 2025.

The full reports on Ofsted ↗

Living nearby

Living near Turncroft Nursery School

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

Home prices in BB3 2, the school’s postcode sector

Darwen property prices →
£153,500
median sale, 454 sales in 36 months · Darwen £140,000

Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025

£50K£100K£150K£200K2010201520202025BB3 2Darwen
BB3 2Darwen

By type, the 36 months to August 2026

Detached
£325K
Semi-detached
£200K
Terraced
£130K
Flat
£141K
BB3 2Darwen

Homes in BB3 2 sell for a little over Darwen’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

13 state schools
0.5 mi1 mi1.5 miNB+B+DBCD−C−DD−DBD−B+Turncroft Nursery School
ABCDNo letterPrimarySecondary / all-through

Darwen, BB3 2DN

Turncroft Nursery School: common questions

What is Turncroft Nursery School’s Ofsted rating?

Its latest inspection outcome is Inspected (May 2025).

How much do houses cost near Turncroft Nursery School?

Homes in its postcode sector, BB3 2, sold for a median £153,500 over the 36 months to August 2026 (454 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; Darwen’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.