Kershaw Wood
Kershaw Wood is an independent special school in Glossop for boys and girls aged 5 to 11. It has 12 pupils and room for 36.
Talbot Street, Glossop, SK13 7DG0330 118 0974firststepseducation.ukCatherine Donnelly headteacherAll details
Ofsted
Ofsted hasn't published an inspection for this school yet. That is normal for a school that opened in 2024: new schools usually get their first inspection within three years.
Getting a place
Admissions policy not published.
Each council publishes its own figures on how many families applied and how far away the last child to get a place lived. We are adding councils one at a time. If you have a link to Derbyshire council's admissions booklet, send it to us.
Who goes here
Who the school teaches, from the latest school census.
How the mix of pupils has changed
| Census | 2026 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Pupils on roll | 12 | 9 |
| Pupils getting extra supportSEN support | – | 0% |
| Pupils with an EHC planEducation, health and care plans | – | 100% |
The area around the school
Crime figures come from police.uk. The police record each crime at the nearest of a fixed set of map points rather than the exact spot, so “within 500 m” is only rough. House prices are from HM Land Registry sales nearby over the last two years.
Nearby schools
The closest schools, nearest first. Hover over a row to see it on the map.
| School | Type | Distance | Pupils | Ofsted | Score | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Duke of Norfolk CofE Primary School | Church of England | 320 m | 304 | Good 2024 | 28 | Compare |
| St Luke's CofE Primary School | Church of England | 460 m | 201 | Report card 2026 | 27 | Compare |
| St Philip Howard Catholic Voluntary Academy | Academy | 670 m | 577 | Report card 2026 | 44 | Compare |
| St Mary's Catholic Voluntary Academy | Academy | 700 m | 97 | Good 2022 | 20 | Compare |
| All Saints' Catholic Voluntary Academy | Academy | 710 m | 51 | Good 2022 | 76 | Compare |
| Whitfield St James' CofE (VC) Primary School | Church of England | 750 m | 311 | Good 2023 | 30 | Compare |
| Dinting Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School | Church of England | 0.9 miles | 113 | Good 2023 | 34 | Compare |
| Simmondley Primary School | Academy | 0.9 miles | – | Not inspected | – | Compare |
Questions parents ask
Is Kershaw Wood a good school?
We don't have enough published data to score Kershaw Wood yet.
How many pupils does Kershaw Wood have?
12 pupils aged 5 to 11 were on the roll in January 2024. It has 36 places, so it is 33% full.
These answers come straight from the figures on this page and update when new data comes out.
Contact and details
- Address
- Talbot Street, Glossop, SK13 7DG
- Telephone
- 0330 118 0974
- Website
- www.firststepseducation.uk
- Headteacher
- Catherine Donnelly
- Type of school
- Independent special school (Other independent special school, special schools)
- Phase
- Special school, ages 5-11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Local authority
- Derbyshire
- Ward
- Howard Town
- Constituency
- High Peak
- Setting
- Urban: Nearer to a major town or city
- Opened
- 13 August 2024 (new provision)
- URN
- 150857 · LAESTAB 8306062
Where these figures come from
- School details: Department for Education, Get Information About Schools, refreshed daily (this page rebuilt 13 September 2026).
- Inspections: Ofsted management information, monthly; latest publication in our data 27 August 2026.
- Pupil characteristics: DfE school census, January 2026.
- Neighbourhood: police.uk street-level crime, HM Land Registry price paid data, NaPTAN bus stops, English Indices of Deprivation 2025.
- All under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Full list and update calendar.