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Sandy Lane Nursery and Forest School

Nursery school · Local authority nursery school · ages 2 to 4 · Mixed

Sandy Lane, Orford, Warrington, WA2 9HY

  • Pupils102
  • Ages2 to 4
  • Latest Ofsted14 Mar 2023
  • FundingState-funded
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Ofsted inspections

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Ungraded inspection · 14 Mar 2023

Outcome: School remains Outstanding. 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 10 May 2023

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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
102
41 girls, 61 boys
Eligible for free school meals
9.1% (currently eligible, census of January 2026)

Pupils with SEN support

Special educational needs, without an education, health and care (EHC) plan.

2024/25

This school
18.8%

Pupils with an EHC plan

An education, health and care plan sets out the support a child must get.

2024/25

This school
10.4%

Eligible for free school meals at any time in the last 6 years

2024/25

This school
0%

First language not English

This is not a measure of how well pupils speak English.

2024/25

This school
28.1%

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
Special needs catered for
SpLD - Specific Learning Difficulty; VI - Visual Impairment; OTH - Other Difficulty/Disability; HI - Hearing Impairment; SLCN - Speech, language and Communication; ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder; SEMH - Social, Emotional and Mental Health; MSI - Multi-Sensory Impairment; PD - Physical Disability; MLD - Moderate Learning Difficulty; SLD - Severe Learning Difficulty; PMLD - Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulty
Local authority
Warrington
Parliamentary constituency
Warrington North
URN
110956 (the DfE’s reference number for the school)

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