Turncroft Nursery School

State-Funded School

turncroft-nursery-school-blackburn-with-darwen-north-west

North WestRegion

Blackburn with DarwenLocal Authority

Rossendale and DarwenConstituency

BB3 2DNPostcode

9.4

Academic Performance

Ofsted

About the School

Turncroft Nursery School is a state-funded nursery for pupils aged 3–4, located in Blackburn with Darwen, North West.

The school is rated Outstanding by Ofsted. It currently serves 58 pupils.

Ofsted Rating

Safeguarding effective

Rating last maintained

2025

Subject Areas

Leadership &management

Outstanding

Early yearsprovision

Outstanding

Ethnicity

White

84%

Asian

10%

Black

Mixed

Pupils

Total Pupils

55%Boys

45%Girls

Pupil Characteristics

Free school meals

England average

27%

First language not English

10%

England average

22%

Young carers

—

England average

0%25%50%75%100%

DfE school census, January 2026.

Key Information

Phase: Nursery
Age range: 3 – 4
Deprivation band: Average
Total pupils: 58
IDACI quintile: 3 (Average)

Inspection history

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

Standards maintained

Ungraded inspection on 20 May 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
11 Dec 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.