Special school in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire
Pebble Brook School
Churchill Avenue, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, HP21 8LZ
Ofsted
Remained Good at its last ungraded inspection, on 14 March 2024.
Ofsted stopped awarding single-word overall grades in September 2024. This grade is 2 years old and will not be updated — the school keeps it until its next inspection, which will not produce a replacement grade.
Exam results
Special schools serve pupils whose needs the standard measures were not designed to describe, so results are not shown or ranked here.
Pupils
- Pupils on roll
- 180
- Places
- 140
- How full
- Full — 180 pupils against 140 places
- Girls / boys
- 46 / 134
- Overall absence
- 12%
- Persistently absent
- 35%
England 5.8%
England 14.7% — pupils missing 10% or more of sessions
- Free school meals, last 6 years
- 51%
- English as an additional language
- 21%
- With an EHC plan
- 100%
- On SEN support
- 0%
England 25.7%
England 18.7%
England 3.5%
England 15%
What pupils do next
After GCSEs
- In education, work or training
- 94%
- Stayed in education
- 88%
- Started an apprenticeship
- 6%
- Stayed at this school's sixth form
- 6%
- No sustained destination
- 0%
- Pupils in the cohort
- 17
England 91.4%
England 85.4%
England 3.5%
England 5.8%
A destination counts only if it lasted at least six months, which is why these figures lag the exam results by a year. Small cohorts move these percentages a long way — check the cohort size before reading much into a gap.
The neighbourhood around the school
Census 2021 figures for Buckinghamshire 017C, the statistical neighbourhood the school sits in — roughly 1,500 residents. It describes the area, not the pupils, who may travel in from further away.
- Adults with a degree
- 25%
- Adults with no qualifications
- 27%
- Households owning their home
- 38%
- Households in social housing
- 46%
- Households with no car
- 28%
- Adults economically inactive
- 36%
England 33.8%
England 18.3%
England 62.7%
England 17%
England 21.9%
England 39.9%
School details
- Type
- Community special school
- Phase
- Special
- Ages
- Ages 11–19
- Gender
- Mixed
- Religious character
- None
- Sixth form
- Yes
- Nursery
- No
- Boarding
- Day school
- Headteacher
- Headteacher: Susanna Sutton
- Local authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Ward
- Aylesbury South West
- Constituency
- Aylesbury
- URN
- 110576
The unique reference number used in all official school data.
Nearest special schools
| School | Ofsted | Attainment 8 | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Pace CentreOther independent special school | No grade | — | 1 mi |
| Stocklake Park Community SchoolCommunity special school | Good 2024 | — | 1 mi |
| Booker Park Community SchoolCommunity special school | Good 2022 | — | 1.4 mi |
| Macintyre SchoolOther independent special school | No grade | — | 5.2 mi |
| Red Kite SchoolOther independent special school | No grade | — | 5.8 mi |
| Benjamin CollegeOther independent special school | No grade | — | 10.2 mi |
Where these figures come from
- School details, address and pupil numbers — Get Information About Schools, the DfE register, as at 14 August 2026.
- Exam results — DfE performance tables, 2024/25.
- Free school meals, EAL and SEN — school census, 2024/25.
- Ofsted — Ofsted management information, latest inspections as at 30 June 2026.
- Neighbourhood figures — ONS Census 2021, lower layer super output area.
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