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Rainhill Community Nursery

NurseryAges 2–4Local authority nursery school

Prescot, L35 4NW · St. Helens local authority

Prescot’s School Grade B better than 56% of towns in England

How full
50 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 Rainhill Community Nursery

  • 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, April 2026: achievement strong standard, safeguarding met (shown, not graded)
  • Homes in its postcode sector (L35 4) sold for a median £220,000; Prescot’s is £221,500

Who goes here

DfE school census, January 2025

54 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
16.7%England 15.3%
EHC plan
0%England 3.6%
English as an additional language
11.1%England 18.8%
Free school meals in the last 6 years
0%England 26.2%

Girls and boys

Girls 56%Boys 44%
Its letter

No letter for Rainhill Community Nursery

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
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 Outstanding, November 2021.

The full reports on Ofsted ↗

Living nearby

Living near Rainhill Community Nursery

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

Home prices in L35 4, the school’s postcode sector

Prescot property prices →
£220,000
median sale, 93 sales in 36 months · Prescot £221,500

Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025

£100K£150K£200K£250K2010201520202025L35 4Prescot
L35 4Prescot

By type, the 36 months to August 2026

Detached
£315K
Semi-detached
£235K
Terraced
£186K
Flat
£138K
L35 4Prescot

Homes in L35 4 sell for about the same as Prescot’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

16 state schools
0.5 mi1 mi1.5 miNBB+B−DBDB+AB−B−A−B+A−B−DC+Rainhill Community Nursery
ABCDNo letterPrimarySecondary / all-through

Prescot, L35 4NW

Rainhill Community Nursery: common questions

What is Rainhill Community Nursery’s Ofsted rating?

Its latest inspection (April 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 Rainhill Community Nursery?

Homes in its postcode sector, L35 4, sold for a median £220,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (93 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; Prescot’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.