North East
Special schools in Newcastle upon Tyne
105 schools, 45,949 pupils. Average Attainment 8 across the authority's state secondaries is 40.
Ofsted across Newcastle upon Tyne
Good51
Outstanding4
Requires improvement1
No overall grade49
56 of these schools carry a one-word grade from before September 2024, when Ofsted stopped awarding them. The remaining 49 either have no published outcome or were inspected under the current framework, which does not give an overall grade. What changed.
Special schools in Newcastle upon Tyne
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hadrian SchoolFoundation special school | Newcastle-upon-Tyne | Outstanding 2023 | — |
| Northern Counties SchoolNon-maintained special school | Newcastle-upon-Tyne | Good 2024 | — |
| Sir Charles Parsons SchoolFoundation special school | Newcastle-upon-Tyne | Outstanding 2024 | — |
| Talbot House Children's CharityNon-maintained special school | Newcastle upon Tyne | Good 2023 | — |