Ashworth Nursery School

About Ashworth Nursery School

Ashworth Nursery School is one of four state nurseries in Blackburn with Darwen, and its Good Ofsted rating places it squarely in the middle of the local pack. The local authority has one Outstanding nursery among its four, meaning Ashworth is a solid but not top-tier option for families of three and four-year-olds. Because nurseries do not produce the standard headline metrics like Progress 8 or KS2 SATs results, the most meaningful comparison is against the local authority’s overall nursery performance. With three out of four schools rated Good or Outstanding, Ashworth is in line with the majority of its peers. Its most recent inspection, in March 2022, saw it drop from its previous Outstanding rating, awarded in 2014, to Good across all measured areas: overall effectiveness, quality of education, personal development, behaviour and attitudes, and leadership and management. While this change might give some parents pause, the school remains solidly above the baseline of satisfactory, and the inspection report is publicly available for those who want to dig into the detail.

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