Goodway Nursery School
Nursery school · Local authority nursery school · ages 2 to 5 · Mixed
5 Goodway Road, Great Barr, Birmingham, B44 8RL
- Pupils96
- Ages2 to 5
- Latest Ofsted3 Jun 2025
- FundingState-funded
Ofsted inspections
Shown exactly as Ofsted published them, each with its own date.
Graded inspection · 17 Dec 2019
Overall effectiveness: Outstanding
- Quality of educationOutstanding
- Behaviour and attitudesOutstanding
- Personal developmentOutstanding
- Leadership and managementOutstanding
- Safeguarding is effectiveYes
Grades run from Outstanding to Inadequate (four steps, left to right).
S5 Inspection · report published 15 Jan 2020
Ungraded inspection · 3 Jun 2025
Outcome: Standards maintained. An ungraded inspection checks whether a school is still at the standard of its last graded inspection; it doesn’t give new grades.
Ungraded inspection · report published 30 Jun 2025
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Source: Ofsted, state-funded school inspections and outcomes: management information (latest inspections as at 30 September 2026). Newer inspections may be on Ofsted’s website. How Ofsted inspections work.
Results
No results for this school are in the performance tables we use. Results are published for schools with pupils at the end of Year 6, Year 11 or 16 to 18 study, and figures are hidden when very few pupils are involved.
Source: Department for Education, school performance tables. England and local authority figures are the DfE’s own, for the same year.
Pupils and attendance
- Pupils
- 96
41 girls, 55 boys - Eligible for free school meals
- 35.7% (currently eligible, census of January 2026)
Pupils with SEN support
Special educational needs, without an education, health and care (EHC) plan.
2024/25
Pupils with an EHC plan
An education, health and care plan sets out the support a child must get.
2024/25
Eligible for free school meals at any time in the last 6 years
2024/25
First language not English
This is not a measure of how well pupils speak English.
2024/25
Sources: Get Information about Schools; DfE school census and absence statistics via the performance tables. What these figures mean.
About the school
- Type
- Local authority nursery school (Local authority maintained schools)
- Phase
- Nursery
- Boys, girls or mixed
- Mixed
- Religious character
- Does not apply
- Nursery
- Has Nursery Classes
- Local authority
- Birmingham
- Parliamentary constituency
- Birmingham Erdington
- URN
- 103128 (the DfE’s reference number for the school)
Source: Get Information about Schools (Department for Education). See the full record (opens in a new tab).
Admissions
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