Canterbury Nursery School and Centre for Children and Families

State-Funded School

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Yorkshire and The HumberRegion

BradfordLocal Authority

Bradford EastConstituency

BD5 9HLPostcode

9.4

Academic Performance

Ofsted

About the School

Canterbury Nursery School and Centre for Children and Families is a state-funded nursery for pupils aged 2–5, located in Bradford, Yorkshire and The Humber.

The school is rated Outstanding by Ofsted. It currently serves 162 pupils.

Ofsted Rating

Safeguarding effective

Yes

Rating last maintained

2025

Subject Areas

Leadership &management

Outstanding

Ethnicity

White

23%

Asian

57%

Black

Mixed

Any other group

Pupils

162

Total Pupils

53%Boys

47%Girls

Pupil Characteristics

Free school meals

England average

27%

First language not English

56%

England average

22%

Young carers

—

England average

0%25%50%75%100%

DfE school census, January 2026.

Key Information

Phase: Nursery
Age range: 2 – 5
Deprivation band: Most deprived
Total pupils: 162
IDACI quintile: 5 (Least deprived)

Inspection history

Ofsted has published one graded inspection for this school. The most recent ungraded inspection is shown below.

Standards maintained

Ungraded inspection on 14 May 2025. An ungraded inspection checks whether the existing grade still holds; it does not award a new one.

Read the inspection letter on Ofsted

Report published					Overall
22 Jun 2016	Outstanding	Not reported in this inspection	Not reported in this inspection	Not reported in this inspection	Outstanding

A grey dot means Ofsted did not report that judgement in the inspection of the day — the sub-judgements shown here were introduced with the 2019 framework.

Ofsted data as at 31 December 2024. A school may have been inspected since, or had an ungraded visit that does not change its grade — check Ofsted’s own record.