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Arnold Nursery School
The Arnold Centre, Goldsmith Road, Rotherham, South Yorkshire, S65 2LY
Overview
Arnold Nursery School is a state-funded school (local authority nursery school) in Rotherham, Yorkshire and the Humber, for pupils aged 2–5. This summary is generated only from official structured fields.
School details
- Official establishment type
- Local authority nursery school
- Establishment group
- Local authority maintained schools
- Phase of education
- Nursery
- Age range
- Ages 2–5
- Gender of entry
- Mixed
- Boarding
- No boarders
- Pupils on roll
- 172
- URN
- 106826
Admissions
- Local authority
- Rotherham
- Federation
- Rawmarsh & Arnold Nursery School Federation
Contact the school or your local authority for catchment and application deadlines.
Official inspection data
Ofsted inspections
Inspection information published by Ofsted, shown in Ofsted's own words.
Ofsted inspection
Inspected 29 April 2025 · Published 21 May 2025
Original education inspection framework (September 2024 to November 2025)
Ofsted did not give schools an overall effectiveness grade during this inspection period. The judgements Ofsted did publish are shown below.
- Quality of education
- Outstanding
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Outstanding
- Personal development
- Outstanding
- Effectiveness of leadership and management
- Outstanding
- Safeguarding was effective
- Yes
Other recent inspection activity
These visits do not carry a graded judgement and do not replace the inspection above.
Ungraded inspection
Inspected 5 March 2020 · Published 12 May 2020
Outcome: School remains Outstanding
Ofsted changed how it inspects and reports on schools in November 2025. Judgements from the previous and current frameworks use different systems and should not be directly compared.
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Source: Ofsted · Inspections and outcomes. Official Ofsted page for this school
Location
- Address
- The Arnold Centre, Goldsmith Road, Rotherham, South Yorkshire, S65 2LY
- Local authority
- Rotherham
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