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Dulwich Wood Nursery School

NurseryAges 2–5Local authority nursery school

Southwark, SE21 8QS · Southwark local authority

Southwark’s School Grade A better than 90% of towns in England

How full
81 pupils
January 2026 census
Free school meals
19%
19 in 100 pupils eligible · outlined square = England’s schools (25)
The gist

What stands out about Dulwich Wood Nursery School

  • No letter for this school: the reason is below.
  • Ofsted report card, February 2026: achievement strong standard, safeguarding met (shown, not graded)
  • Homes in its postcode sector (SE21 8) sold for a median £620,000; Southwark’s is £545,000

Who goes here

DfE school census, January 2025

80 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
43.8%England 15.3%
EHC plan
0%England 3.6%
English as an additional language
30%England 18.8%
Free school meals in the last 6 years
0%England 26.2%

Girls and boys

Girls 46%Boys 54%
Its letter

No letter for Dulwich Wood 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 February 2026.

SafeguardingMet
AchievementStrong standard
Curriculum and teachingStrong standard
InclusionStrong standard
Attendance and behaviourStrong standard
Personal development and well-beingStrong standard
Leadership and governanceStrong standard

Before the report card: Ungraded inspection: School remains Good, June 2021.

The full reports on Ofsted ↗

Living nearby

Living near Dulwich Wood Nursery School

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

Home prices in SE21 8, the school’s postcode sector

Southwark property prices →
£620,000
median sale, 387 sales in 36 months · Southwark £545,000

Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025

£200K£300K£400K£500K£600K£700K2010201520202025SE21 8Southwark
SE21 8Southwark

By type, the 36 months to August 2026

Detached
£1.3M
Semi-detached
£1.4M
Terraced
£875K
Flat
£440K
SE21 8Southwark

Homes in SE21 8 sell for a little over Southwark’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 miNB+C+CB−BB−C+A−A+A−B+C−A−A−B+CA−B−A−ADC+B−A−AAC+B+DC+A−C+A−A−B−ADulwich Wood Nursery School
ABCDNo letterPrimarySecondary / all-through

Southwark, SE21 8QS

Dulwich Wood Nursery School: common questions

What is Dulwich Wood Nursery School’s Ofsted rating?

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

How much do houses cost near Dulwich Wood Nursery School?

Homes in its postcode sector, SE21 8, sold for a median £620,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (387 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; Southwark’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.