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The Sue Hedley Nursery School

Nursery school · Local authority nursery school · ages 2 to 5 · Mixed

Campbell Park Road, Hebburn, NE31 1QY

  • Pupils71
  • Ages2 to 5
  • Latest Ofsted4 Feb 2025
  • FundingState-funded
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Ofsted inspections

Shown exactly as Ofsted published them, each with its own date.

Graded inspection (no overall grade) · 4 Feb 2025

No overall grade: from September 2024 to November 2025 Ofsted gave sub-grades only (recorded as “Not judged”).

  • 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 11 Mar 2025

Ungraded inspection · 25 Apr 2023

Outcome: School remains Outstanding (Concerns) - S5 Next. 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 18 Jun 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
71
26 girls, 45 boys
Eligible for free school meals
28.9% (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
12%

Pupils with an EHC plan

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

2024/25

This school
17.3%

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

2024/25

This school
90.9%

First language not English

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

2024/25

This school
6.7%

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
Opened
2 October 2000
Local authority
South Tyneside
Parliamentary constituency
Jarrow and Gateshead East
URN
132799 (the DfE’s reference number for the school)

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