Castle Vale Nursery School

State-Funded School

castle-vale-nursery-school-birmingham-west-midlands

West MidlandsRegion

BirminghamLocal Authority

Birmingham ErdingtonConstituency

B35 6DUPostcode

9.4

Academic Performance

Ofsted

About the School

Castle Vale Nursery School is a state-funded nursery for pupils aged 2–5, located in Birmingham, West Midlands.

The school is rated Outstanding by Ofsted. It currently serves 134 pupils.

Ofsted Rating

Safeguarding effective

Rating last maintained

2023

Subject Areas

Leadership &management

Outstanding

Early yearsprovision

Outstanding

Ethnicity

White

69%

Asian

Black

12%

Mixed

15%

Unclassified

<1%

Pupils

134

Total Pupils

43%Boys

57%Girls

Pupil Characteristics

Free school meals

England average

27%

First language not English

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: 134
IDACI quintile: 5 (Least deprived)

Inspection history

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

School remains Outstanding

Ungraded inspection on 8 November 2023. 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
23 Oct 2014	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.