Hirst Wood Nursery School

State-Funded School

hirst-wood-nursery-school-bradford-yorkshire-and-the-humber

Yorkshire and The HumberRegion

BradfordLocal Authority

ShipleyConstituency

BD18 4NJPostcode

5.5

Academic Performance

Ofsted

About the School

Hirst Wood Nursery School is a state-funded nursery for pupils aged 2–5, located in Bradford, Yorkshire and The Humber.

The school is rated Good by Ofsted. It currently serves 84 pupils.

Ofsted Rating

Safeguarding effective

Rating last maintained

2023

Subject Areas

Leadership &management

Good

Early yearsprovision

Good

Ethnicity

White

56%

Asian

27%

Black

Mixed

13%

Any other group

Pupils

Total Pupils

54%Boys

46%Girls

Pupil Characteristics

Free school meals

15%

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: Least deprived
Total pupils: 84
IDACI quintile: 1 (Most deprived)

Inspection history

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

School remains Good

Ungraded inspection on 14 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
18 Nov 2014	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.