Living in Worksop with children
Worksop, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire and Rotherham. What the published figures say about its schools, its homes and daily life, each with its source and date. 43,435 people in 18,877 households; 27.6% of households have dependent children (Census 2021 (ONS, via NOMIS), summed over the town's output areas).
Schools
27 schools: 24 state primary, 2 state secondary, 1 privateWorksop on the schools map →Every school in Worksop, with inspection, league band and the last place offered
State primary schools (24)
| School | Inspection | League rank | Last place offered |
|---|---|---|---|
| Woodsetts Primary School | Ofsted report card | 1st (1/85) in Rotherham | — |
| Whipman Woods Flying High Academy | — | Top 6% (14/246) in Nottinghamshire | 0.78 miles (2026) |
| Hodthorpe Primary School | Good | Top 9% (22/262) in Derbyshire | — |
| Creswell Junior School | Good | Top 15% (38/262) in Derbyshire | — |
| St Anne's CofE Primary School | Standards maintained | Top 14% (33/246) in Nottinghamshire | — |
| Norbridge Academy | Outstanding | Top 14% (34/246) in Nottinghamshire | — |
| Kingston Park Academy | Ofsted report card | Top 17% (40/246) in Nottinghamshire | 1.3 miles (2026) |
| The St Augustine's Academy | Standards maintained | Top 18% (42/246) in Nottinghamshire | — |
| St Luke's CofE (Aided) Primary School | Good | Top 33% (81/246) in Nottinghamshire | 0.64 miles (2026) |
| Ramsden Primary School | Good | Top 38% (93/246) in Nottinghamshire | — |
| Prospect Hill Junior School | School remains Good | (139/246) in Nottinghamshire | — |
| St John's CofE Academy | School remains Good | (142/246) in Nottinghamshire | 1.15 miles (2026) |
| Worksop Priory Church of England Primary Academy | Good | (155/246) in Nottinghamshire | — |
| Gateford Park Primary School | Standards maintained | (158/246) in Nottinghamshire | — |
| Sparken Hill Academy | School remains Good | (160/246) in Nottinghamshire | — |
| Sir Edmund Hillary Academy | Requires improvement | (165/246) in Nottinghamshire | — |
| The Primary School of St Mary and St Martin | Standards maintained | (194/246) in Nottinghamshire | — |
| Holy Family Catholic Primary School | Good | (197/246) in Nottinghamshire | — |
| Redlands Primary and Nursery School | Good | (220/246) in Nottinghamshire | — |
| Langold Dyscarr Community School | Good | (228/246) in Nottinghamshire | — |
| Whitwell Primary School | Good | (233/262) in Derbyshire | — |
| Creswell CofE Controlled Infant and Nursery | Good | — | — |
| Haggonfields Primary and Nursery School | Requires improvement | — | — |
| Prospect Hill Infant and Nursery School | Good | — | — |
State secondary schools (2)
| School | Inspection | League rank | Last place offered |
|---|---|---|---|
| Outwood Academy Valley | Good | Top 47% (21/45) in Nottinghamshire | 5.32 miles (2026) |
| Outwood Academy Portland | Good | (24/45) in Nottinghamshire | 1.56 miles (2026) |
Private schools (1)
| School | Inspection | League rank | Last place offered |
|---|---|---|---|
| Worksop College | Independent Schools Inspectorate: standards met | 1st (1/1) in Nottinghamshire | — |
Rank: the school's place among its council's schools of the same phase, from three years of DfE results (kinplace's league table, how it is worked out); schools with hidden or no results get none. Inspections: Ofsted and ISI. Last place offered: the council's offer-day figures. School register: DfE Get Information about Schools, updated 17 October 2026.
Homes and prices
Typical sale, last 12 months (Land Registry)The middle sale of each type, September 2025 to August 2026: half sold for more, half for less (173 detached, 175 semi-detached, 92 terraced, 18 flat or maisonette sales). Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, standard sales inside the ONS built-up area outline of Worksop. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Look up a home in Worksop →Getting around
Stops and stations (NaPTAN), and broadband (Ofcom)Source: DfT, NaPTAN (National Public Transport Access Nodes). Straight-line distances.
Gigabit broadband can be ordered at 87% of premises, and superfast (30 Mbit/s) at 96%, on average across the 1,960 postcodes in S81, S80. Check the postcode you are looking at: it can differ street by street.
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, July 2025, fixed broadband coverage by postcode (an average of postcodes, not of homes).
Safety and environment
The town centre; addresses varyChildcare
Ofsted early years register; published pricesWhat Ofsted found: 1 outstanding; 10 good, or expected standard; 1 not inspected yet. A typical nursery place in this region costs about £6.17 an hour for a two-year-old.
All of them: 11 in Nottinghamshire · 1 in Derbyshire.
Sources: Ofsted, Childcare providers and inspections; each nursery's own fees page, read by 16 October 2026; Coram Family and Childcare, Childcare Survey 2026: average nursery price for 50 hours a week after the working-parent entitlement (paying for 20 hours), by region.
Childcare costs near you →Key dates, Nottinghamshire
The next dates for families applyingApplication deadlines and offer days: Nottinghamshire · Derbyshire · Rotherham.
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