North West
Special schools in Bolton
138 schools, 56,332 pupils. Average Attainment 8 across the authority's state secondaries is 40.9.
Ofsted across Bolton
Good52
Outstanding13
Requires improvement2
No overall grade71
67 of these schools carry a one-word grade from before September 2024, when Ofsted stopped awarding them. The remaining 71 either have no published outcome or were inspected under the current framework, which does not give an overall grade. What changed.
Special schools in Bolton
Sorted by name. A gap of a point or two is noise, not a ranking — read the school pages for the intake-adjusted comparison.
| School | Area | Ofsted | Attainment 8 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Birtenshaw School BoltonNon-maintained special school | Bolton | Good 2022 | — |
| Breightmet SchoolOther independent special school | Bolton | No grade | — |
| EdStart Schools BoltonOther independent special school | Bolton | No grade | — |
| Green Fold SchoolCommunity special school | Bolton | Outstanding 2023 | — |
| Lake House SchoolOther independent special school | Bolton | No grade | — |
| Raise Education and Wellbeing SchoolOther independent special school | Bolton | No grade | — |
| Rumworth SchoolCommunity special school | Bolton | Outstanding 2024 | — |
| Thomasson Memorial SchoolCommunity special school | Bolton | Good 2024 | — |