Highfield Nursery School

State-Funded School

highfield-nursery-school-north-northamptonshire-east-midlands

East MidlandsRegion

North NorthamptonshireLocal Authority

Wellingborough and RushdenConstituency

NN8 4ABPostcode

5.5

Academic Performance

Ofsted

About the School

Highfield Nursery School is a state-funded nursery for pupils aged 2–5, located in North Northamptonshire, East Midlands.

The school is rated Good by Ofsted. It currently serves 73 pupils.

Ofsted Rating

Safeguarding effective

Yes

Rating last maintained

2025

Subject Areas

Leadership &management

Good

Ethnicity

White

41%

Asian

29%

Black

19%

Mixed

Any other group

Unclassified

Pupils

Total Pupils

42%Boys

58%Girls

Pupil Characteristics

Free school meals

England average

27%

First language not English

58%

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: Less deprived
Total pupils: 73
IDACI quintile: 2 (More deprived)

Inspection history

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

Improved significantly

Ungraded inspection on 23 April 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
31 Mar 2019	Good	Not reported in this inspection	Not reported in this inspection	Not reported in this inspection	Good

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.