Walkern Pre School: Ofsted & Fees 2026

Walkern Pre School

IndependentDay Nursery

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C/O Walkern Primary School, High Street, SG2 7NS

C/O Walkern Primary School, High Street, SG2 7NS Website 01438 861285

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GoodJan 2025View full report

GoodJan 2025

Inspected Jan 2025 · View report

8:15–15:30

Opening hours

from the setting

£15.50

Fees a day

from the setting

15 & 30 hrs

Funded hours taken

from the setting

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Inspection · Good, Jan 2025 (1 year ago)

Source · Ofsted · Inspected Jan 2025

Type

Private Day Nursery

Age Range

Not published

Registered Places

Registration

Active

Ofsted Registers

EYR

Provider Type

Full Day Care

Deprivation (IMD)

Decile 6/10 (1 = most deprived)

Registered Since

May 1991

Food Hygiene

5/5

Funded provision

Accepts funded entitlements (verify with setting)

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Key metrics · Absence, staffing and capacity

Key admissions dates ·

The area · Deprivation decile 6 of 10 (IMD 2025)

Place & Setting

Local Context

Area deprivation

IMD Decile 6Average

Food hygiene

Planning flood zone (ignores defences)Zone 1

Heritage status

Grade II

Around the schoolcrime · road safety · green space · air quality · heritage

Heritage designations

One designation matched to Walkern Pre School or its setting.

FARMHOUSE AT FINCHES FARM (OPPOSITE STEVENAGE ROAD)
Historic England · England · within 25 m · designated May 1984
Grade II

Source: Historic England · England. Updated Sep 2026. Match: 25 m PostGIS spatial join from the school’s point location to each designation polygon.

Neighbourhood safety· within ½ mileBelow LA average

Crimes per month 5

Hertfordshire peer median: 38 per month

12-month total63

Top categories

Violent crime

32 (51%)

Anti-social behaviour

10 (16%)

Criminal damage / arson

9 (14%)

and 4 smaller categories

Source: data.police.uk · ½ mile radius · Aug 2025 – Jul 2026 · vs 1,550 Hertfordshire schools.

Road Safety Nearby

Recorded collisions within 500m (2021–2025)2

Source: DfT road safety data

Greenspace Nearby

Greenspace sites within 800m7

Nearest site218m

Includes1 playing fields, 2 play spaces, 1 allotments

Source: OS Open Greenspace

Air Quality

Nitrogen dioxide (NO₂): modelled annual mean for the school's 1 km square, with the yardsticks that apply
Item	µg/m³
Nitrogen dioxide (NO₂)	9.2 µg/m³
The legal limit in England (40)	40
The WHO guideline (10)	10

Within the legal limit in England (40) · within the WHO guideline (10)

Fine particulate matter (PM₂.₅): modelled annual mean for the school's 1 km square, with the yardsticks that apply
Item	µg/m³
Fine particulate matter (PM₂.₅)	8.3 µg/m³
The legal limit in England (20)	20
England’s 2040 target (10)	10
The WHO guideline (5)	5

Within the legal limit in England (20) · within England’s 2040 target (10) · above the WHO guideline (5)

Particulate matter (PM₁₀): modelled annual mean for the school's 1 km square, with the yardsticks that apply
Item	µg/m³
Particulate matter (PM₁₀)	13.9 µg/m³
The legal limit in England (40)	40
The WHO guideline (15)	15

Within the legal limit in England (40) · within the WHO guideline (15)

Modelled annual mean for 2025, for the 1 km square containing the school. Not a measurement.

Source: DEFRA, Air quality compliance assessment 2025: modelled data and reports (GOV.UK) (CMAQ-Urban model) © Crown copyright, Defra. Open Government Licence v3.0Limits and guideline: The Air Quality Standards Regulations 2010, Schedule 2; WHO global air quality guidelines (2021), Table 0.1; The Environmental Targets (Fine Particulate Matter) (England) Regulations 2023, regulation 4

Data from:Inspection: Jan 2025Profile updated: Oct 2026

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Walkern Pre School: key facts

What did Ofsted judge Walkern Pre School's early years overall effectiveness to be?

Ofsted judged Walkern Pre School's early years overall effectiveness as Good at its inspection in January 2025, on Ofsted's own scale.

Where is Walkern Pre School located?

Walkern Pre School is located in STEVENAGE, SG2 7NS, Hertfordshire.

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