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Graded OutstandingJun 2014
Standards maintainedUngraded inspection · Nov 2024
What did Ofsted find?
Ofsted data to 30 September 2026Graded OutstandingJun 2014
Standards maintainedUngraded inspection · Nov 2024
Inspection history
- 13 November 2024Ungraded inspection: Standards maintained
- 25 June 2014Graded inspection: Outstanding · as The South Downs Community Special School, URN 114692
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School details
- Type
- Academy special converter
- Phase
- Not applicable
- URN · DfE number
- 142745 · 845/7030
- Trust
- The Southfield Trust
- Capacity
- 160 pupils · 164 on roll
- Free school meals
- 42.0% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Nursery
- Has nursery classes
- Opened
- 1 April 2016
- Replaced
- The South Downs Community Special School (URN 114692)
- Address
- Beechy Avenue, Eastbourne, BN20 8NU
- Local authority
- East Sussex · Eastbourne
Data last changed 3 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources