South West
Special schools in Gloucestershire
322 schools, 100,404 pupils. Average Attainment 8 across the authority's state secondaries is 45.
Ofsted across Gloucestershire
Good164
Requires improvement15
Outstanding12
Inadequate1
No overall grade130
192 of these schools carry a one-word grade from before September 2024, when Ofsted stopped awarding them. The remaining 130 either have no published outcome or were inspected under the current framework, which does not give an overall grade. What changed.
Special schools in Gloucestershire
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alderman Knight SchoolCommunity special school | Tewkesbury | Outstanding 2024 | — |
| Aurora Severnside SchoolOther independent special school | Gloucestershire | No grade | — |
| Belong School GloucestershireOther independent special school | Slimbridge | No grade | — |
| Bettridge SchoolCommunity special school | Cheltenham | Good 2022 | — |
| Brookthorpe Hall SchoolOther independent special school | Gloucester | No grade | — |
| Cotswold Chine SchoolOther independent special school | Stroud | No grade | — |
| Hartmore SchoolOther independent special school | Gloucester | No grade | — |
| Heart of the Forest Community Special SchoolCommunity special school | Coleford | No grade | — |
| Norton College TewkesburyOther independent special school | Gloucestershire | No grade | — |
| St Rose's Special SchoolNon-maintained special school | Stroud | No grade | — |
| The Shrubberies SchoolCommunity special school | Stonehouse | Good 2024 | — |
| Valley Bridge SchoolOther independent special school | Gloucester | No grade | — |
| William Morris SchoolOther independent special school | Gloucestershire | No grade | — |