South East
Special schools in West Berkshire
97 schools, 27,564 pupils. Average Attainment 8 across the authority's state secondaries is 39.8.
Ofsted across West Berkshire
Good36
Outstanding2
Requires improvement1
No overall grade58
39 of these schools carry a one-word grade from before September 2024, when Ofsted stopped awarding them. The remaining 58 either have no published outcome or were inspected under the current framework, which does not give an overall grade. What changed.
Special schools in West Berkshire
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Engaging PotentialOther independent special school | Newbury | No grade | — |
| Haywards Farm SchoolOther independent special school | Reading | No grade | — |
| Mary Hare SchoolNon-maintained special school | Newbury | No grade | — |
| New Barn SchoolOther independent special school | West Berkshire | No grade | — |
| Northcroft Vocational SchoolOther independent special school | Newbury | No grade | — |
| Oaklands SchoolOther independent special school | Hungerford | No grade | — |
| Priors Court SchoolOther independent special school | Thatcham | No grade | — |
| The Castle SchoolCommunity special school | Newbury | Outstanding 2024 | — |
| The Grange SchoolOther independent special school | Thatcham | No grade | — |
| The Mile House Therapeutic SchoolOther independent special school | West Berkshire | No grade | — |