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Dorothy Gardner Nursery School

NurseryAges 2–5Local authority nursery school

Westminster, W9 3JY · Westminster local authority

Westminster’s School Grade A better than 94% of towns in England

How full
71 pupils
January 2026 census
Free school meals
38%
38 in 100 pupils eligible · outlined square = England’s schools (25)
The gist

What stands out about Dorothy Gardner Nursery School

  • No letter for this school: the reason is below.
  • 38% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (more than England’s 25%)
  • Ofsted report card, June 2026: achievement exceptional, safeguarding met (shown, not graded)
  • Homes in its postcode sector (W9 3) sold for a median £544,250; Westminster’s is £905,000

Who goes here

DfE school census, January 2025

70 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
28.6%England 15.3%
EHC plan
4.3%England 3.6%
English as an additional language
37.1%England 18.8%
Free school meals in the last 6 years
0%England 26.2%

Girls and boys

Girls 41%Boys 59%
Its letter

No letter for Dorothy Gardner 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 June 2026.

SafeguardingMet
AchievementExceptional
Curriculum and teachingExceptional
InclusionExceptional
Attendance and behaviourExceptional
Personal development and well-beingExceptional
Leadership and governanceExceptional

Before the report card: Graded inspection: Good, May 2022.

The full reports on Ofsted ↗

Living nearby

Living near Dorothy Gardner Nursery School

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

Home prices in W9 3, the school’s postcode sector

Westminster property prices →
£544,250
median sale, 336 sales in 36 months · Westminster £905,000

Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025

£200K£400K£600K£800K£1M£1.2M2010201520202025W9 3Westminster
W9 3Westminster

By type, the 36 months to August 2026

Terraced
£915K
Flat
£535K
W9 3Westminster

Homes in W9 3 sell for well under Westminster’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

59 state schools
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Westminster, W9 3JY

Dorothy Gardner Nursery School: common questions

What is Dorothy Gardner Nursery School’s Ofsted rating?

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

How much do houses cost near Dorothy Gardner Nursery School?

Homes in its postcode sector, W9 3, sold for a median £544,250 over the 36 months to August 2026 (336 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; Westminster’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.