Cambridge Nursery School, Liverpool

Ofsted's report card from its 2 June 2026 inspection grades Cambridge Nursery School on 6 areas: 1 strong standard and 5 expected standard. Report cards replaced single-word judgements in November 2025, on a five-point scale from exceptional to urgent improvement.

Inclusion - Strong standard. "Leaders and staff want the best for children and their families."

Achievement - Expected standard. "In general, children, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities, sail forward from their starting points through the school's curriculum."

Attendance and behaviour - Expected standard. "Most children attend school often."

Curriculum and teaching - Expected standard. "Leaders have charted a well-thought-out curriculum for all children."

Leadership and governance - Expected standard. "During some of the time since the previous inspection, the quality of the school's work drifted."

Personal development and wellbeing - Expected standard. "Leaders think very carefully about how staff should build children's personal, social and emotional development through the curriculum and their teaching."

Safeguarding standards were met.

Ofsted's next steps for the school: "Leaders should build on their existing evaluation of children's attendance to identify with greater clarity the attendance of groups of children to inform decisions about improvement actions"; "Leaders should strengthen the school's successful personal development programme to develop children's talents and interests to an even greater extent"; "Leaders should further refine how staff engage children in back-and-forth conversation so that children's communication and language and broader knowledge develop even more successfully".

In its own words: "It is my pleasure to extend a warm welcome to you and your family as you begin your journey with us. At the heart of everything we do, is a deep commitment to the happiness, well-being, and development of every child who walks through our doors."

0% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, and 24.3% speak English as an additional language, according to the 2026 school census.

In 2026, 17 pupils (23%) received SEN support and 0 (0%) had an education, health and care plan. The most common need among them is speech, language and communication needs.

Cambridge Nursery School has a resourced provision for specific learning difficulties such as dyslexia, visual impairment, other difficulties or disabilities, hearing impairment, speech, language and communication needs, autism, social, emotional and mental health needs, multi-sensory impairment, physical disability, moderate learning difficulties, severe learning difficulties and profound and multiple learning difficulties: 12 places, 6 pupils on roll.

The nearest railway station is Kirkdale Rail Station, about 560 metres away (roughly a 7-minute walk).

17 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Hawthorne Road (adjacent), 150 metres away.

Measured by the 2025 English Indices of Deprivation, the neighbourhood Cambridge Nursery School stands in is among the 20% most deprived neighbourhoods in England. This describes where the school is, not where its pupils live.

In August 2026, police recorded 761 crimes within a mile of the school, most often violence and sexual offences, public order offences and anti-social behaviour. That is well above the typical figure around schools in Sefton (165), as is usual near a town centre.