[1] The Dagfa school opened in 1948 in a converted 18th-century family home, a listed building.

By July 2016, Dagfa School Nottingham comprised Woodlands (a second large house), a multi-purpose gym hall, a library as well as a third building housing sciences, Information and communications technology, and a modern studio theatre.

Girls and boys between ages 2 and 16 were taught.

On 27 May 2016, the school announced to staff and parents that it would close at the end of the summer term.

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