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Wallace Road Nursery School

NurseryAges 3–5Local authority nursery school

Northampton, NN2 7EE · West Northamptonshire local authority

Northampton’s School Grade B better than 64% of towns in England

How full
47 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 Wallace Road 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 report card, July 2026: achievement expected standard, safeguarding met (shown, not graded)
  • Homes in its postcode sector (NN2 7) sold for a median £240,000; Northampton’s is £260,000

Who goes here

DfE school census, January 2025

49 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
4.1%England 15.3%
EHC plan
0%England 3.6%
English as an additional language
32.7%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 Wallace Road 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 July 2026.

SafeguardingMet
AchievementExpected standard
Curriculum and teachingNeeds attention
InclusionExpected standard
Attendance and behaviourExpected standard
Personal development and well-beingExpected standard
Leadership and governanceExpected standard

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

The full reports on Ofsted ↗

Living nearby

Living near Wallace Road Nursery School

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

Home prices in NN2 7, the school’s postcode sector

Northampton property prices →
£240,000
median sale, 624 sales in 36 months · Northampton £260,000

Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025

£100K£150K£200K£250K£300K2010201520202025NN2 7Northampton
NN2 7Northampton

By type, the 36 months to August 2026

Detached
£340K
Semi-detached
£259K
Terraced
£215K
Flat
£152K
NN2 7Northampton

Homes in NN2 7 sell for a little under Northampton’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

30 state schools
0.5 mi1 mi1.5 miNC−B−C+DBC−CB−AB−B−B+C−CAC+A−ACCBAC−B+DCCCBAWallace Road Nursery School
ABCDNo letterPrimarySecondary / all-through

Northampton, NN2 7EE

Wallace Road Nursery School: common questions

What is Wallace Road Nursery School’s Ofsted rating?

Its latest inspection (July 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 Wallace Road Nursery School?

Homes in its postcode sector, NN2 7, sold for a median £240,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (624 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; Northampton’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.

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