Comet Nursery School and Children's Centre

State-Funded School

comet-nursery-school-and-childrens-centre-hackney-london

LondonRegion

HackneyLocal Authority

Hackney South and ShoreditchConstituency

N1 5RFPostcode

9.4

Academic Performance

Ofsted

About the School

Comet Nursery School and Children's Centre is a state-funded nursery for pupils aged 2–5, located in Hackney, London.

The school is rated Outstanding by Ofsted. It currently serves 129 pupils.

Ofsted Rating

Safeguarding effective

Rating last maintained

2024

Subject Areas

Leadership &management

Outstanding

Early yearsprovision

Outstanding

Ethnicity

White

31%

Asian

Black

32%

Mixed

21%

Chinese

Any other group

Unclassified

Pupils

129

Total Pupils

63%Boys

37%Girls

Pupil Characteristics

Free school meals

51%

England average

27%

First language not English

57%

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: 129
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 4 June 2024. 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
2 Mar 2015	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.