School profile
Ashgate Nursery School
18 Stepping Lane, Derby, Derbyshire, DE1 1GJ
Overview
Ashgate Nursery School is a state-funded school (local authority nursery school) in Derby, East Midlands, 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
- 68
- URN
- 112479
Admissions
- Local authority
- Derby
- Federation
- Ashgate Nursery and Central Community Nursery Schools' Federation
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Official inspection data
Ofsted inspections
Inspection information published by Ofsted, shown in Ofsted's own words.
Ofsted report card
Inspected 3 March 2026 · Published 26 May 2026
Renewed education inspection framework
- Safeguarding standards
- Met
- Inclusion
- Needs attention
- Curriculum and teaching
- Needs attention
- Achievement
- Urgent improvement
- Attendance and behaviour
- Urgent improvement
- Personal development and wellbeing
- Needs attention
- Early years (where applicable)
- Not applicable
- Post-16 provision (where applicable)
- Not applicable
- Leadership and governance
- Urgent improvement
Ofsted recorded this school in a category of concern: Special measures. The official report explains what this means and what happens next.
Other recent inspection activity
These visits do not carry a graded judgement and do not replace the inspection above.
Ungraded inspection
Inspected 29 March 2023 · Published 21 May 2023
Outcome: School remains Good
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
- 18 Stepping Lane, Derby, Derbyshire, DE1 1GJ
- Local authority
- Derby
- Area
- Schools in Derby
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