Schools with hearing impairment provision in East Sussex

Deaf and hard-of-hearing pupils, with teachers of the deaf, acoustically treated rooms and often British Sign Language. East Sussex has 4 mainstream schools with a unit or resourced provision for hearing impairment and 1 special school that caters for it.

Mainstream schools with a unit or resourced provision (4)

Pupils have a specialist base and staff inside an ordinary school. Places are separate from the school's main admissions and normally need an EHC plan.

School	Provision	Ages	Town	Places	Ofsted	Score
Manor Primary SchoolPrimary school · also autism	Resourced provision	4-11	Uckfield	9	Good 2023	19
Willingdon Primary SchoolPrimary school	Resourced provision	4-11	Eastbourne	11	Good 2024	41
Priory SchoolSecondary school · also autism	Resourced provision	11-16	Lewes	8	Good 2023	57
Willingdon Community SchoolSecondary school	Resourced provision	11-16	Eastbourne	4	Good 2023	50

Special schools (1)

Special schools take pupils with an education, health and care plan; the council names the school in the plan. Many cater for several needs.

School	Provision	Ages	Town	Places	Ofsted	Score
St Mary's School and 6th Form CollegeSpecial school · also autism, moderate learning difficulties, multi-sensory impairment, other needs and more	Special school	5-19	Bexhill on Sea	221 pupils	Good 2022	–

Other councils All schools in East Sussex

Other needs

Autism Speech, language and communication Social, emotional and mental health Moderate learning difficulties Severe learning difficulties Profound and multiple learning difficulties Visual impairment Multi-sensory impairment Physical disability Specific learning difficulties Other needs

How to read this

The list comes from the Department for Education's register of schools (Get Information about Schools), which records the type of SEN provision each school has and how many pupils are in a resourced provision or SEN unit. Resourced provision means extra staff and funding for a group of pupils who spend most of their time in ordinary classes. A SEN unit is a separate class within the school. Both need a place agreed by the council through an education, health and care plan; ask the council's SEND team, not the school's admissions office. The register is only as good as what schools report, so check with the school before relying on it.