Ribblesdale Nursery School

State-Funded School

ribblesdale-nursery-school-lancashire-north-west

North WestRegion

LancashireLocal Authority

Pendle and ClitheroeConstituency

BB7 1ELPostcode

5.5

Academic Performance

Ofsted

About the School

Ribblesdale Nursery School is a state-funded nursery for pupils aged 2–5, located in Lancashire, North West.

The school is rated Good by Ofsted. It currently serves 60 pupils.

Ofsted Rating

Safeguarding effective

Rating last maintained

2025

Subject Areas

Leadership &management

Outstanding

Early yearsprovision

Good

Ethnicity

White

85%

Asian

Mixed

Chinese

Any other group

Pupils

Total Pupils

42%Boys

58%Girls

Pupil Characteristics

Free school meals

England average

27%

First language not English

17%

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: 60
IDACI quintile: 1 (Most 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 18 March 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
7 Jan 2015	Outstanding	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.