North West
Special schools in Cheshire East
172 schools, 59,614 pupils. Average Attainment 8 across the authority's state secondaries is 40.7.
Ofsted across Cheshire East
Good84
Outstanding9
Requires improvement7
Inadequate1
No overall grade71
101 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 Cheshire East
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aidenswood SchoolOther independent special school | Congleton | No grade | — |
| Aurora Summerfields SchoolOther independent special school | Wilmslow | No grade | — |
| Cheshire Hall SchoolOther independent special school | Sandbach | No grade | — |
| Compass Community Cledford ParkOther independent special school | Middlewich | No grade | — |
| David Lewis SchoolNon-maintained special school | Alderley Edge | No grade | — |
| Eden SchoolOther independent special school | Macclesfield | No grade | — |
| Esland Daven SchoolOther independent special school | Congleton | No grade | — |
| High Peak SchoolOther independent special school | Cheshire | No grade | — |
| Lavender Field SchoolOther independent special school | Crewe | No grade | — |
| Opal EducationOther independent special school | Congleton | No grade | — |
| Park Lane SchoolCommunity special school | Macclesfield | Good 2024 | — |
| Springfield SchoolCommunity special school | Crewe | No grade | — |
| TILT EducationOther independent special school | Alsager | No grade | — |