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Chelwood Nursery School

NurseryAges 2–5Local authority nursery school

Lewisham, SE4 2QQ · Lewisham local authority

Lewisham’s School Grade B+ better than 73% of towns in England

How full
127 pupils
January 2026 census
Free school meals
5%
5 in 100 pupils eligible · outlined square = England’s schools (25)
The gist

What stands out about Chelwood Nursery School

  • No letter for this school: the reason is below.
  • 5% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (fewer than England’s 25%)
  • Ofsted report card, April 2026: achievement expected standard, safeguarding met (shown, not graded)
  • Homes in its postcode sector (SE4 2) sold for a median £525,000; Lewisham’s is £465,000

Who goes here

DfE school census, January 2025

139 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
15.1%England 15.3%
EHC plan
2.9%England 3.6%
English as an additional language
25.9%England 18.8%
Free school meals in the last 6 years
0%England 26.2%

Girls and boys

Girls 45%Boys 55%
Its letter

No letter for Chelwood 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 April 2026.

SafeguardingMet
AchievementExpected standard
Curriculum and teachingExpected standard
InclusionExpected standard
Attendance and behaviourExpected standard
Personal development and well-beingStrong standard
Leadership and governanceExpected standard

Before the report card: Ungraded inspection: School remains Outstanding, September 2021.

The full reports on Ofsted ↗

Living nearby

Living near Chelwood Nursery School

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

Home prices in SE4 2, the school’s postcode sector

Lewisham property prices →
£525,000
median sale, 376 sales in 36 months · Lewisham £465,000

Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025

£200K£300K£400K£500K£600K2010201520202025SE4 2Lewisham
SE4 2Lewisham

By type, the 36 months to August 2026

Semi-detached
£728K
Terraced
£793K
Flat
£430K
SE4 2Lewisham

Homes in SE4 2 sell for a little over Lewisham’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

53 state schools
0.5 mi1 mi1.5 miNBA−B+A−A+CC+B−BBC−AA−A−A−B+B−BB+BB−B+A−CCB+CA−C+A−B+AB+C+A−A−A−A+BAA−C+A−AC+ABAC−AA−CChelwood Nursery School
ABCDNo letterPrimarySecondary / all-through

Lewisham, SE4 2QQ

Chelwood Nursery School: common questions

What is Chelwood Nursery School’s Ofsted rating?

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

How much do houses cost near Chelwood Nursery School?

Homes in its postcode sector, SE4 2, sold for a median £525,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (376 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; Lewisham’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.