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Schools with hearing impairment provision in Essex

Deaf and hard-of-hearing pupils, with teachers of the deaf, acoustically treated rooms and often British Sign Language. Essex has 8 mainstream schools with a unit or resourced provision for hearing impairment and 2 special schools that cater for it.

Mainstream schools with a unit or resourced provision (8)

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.

SchoolProvisionAgesTownPlacesOfstedScore
Ghyllgrove Primary SchoolPrimary school · also social, emotional and mental healthSEN unit and resourced provision4-11Basildon15No overall grade 202421
Glebe Primary SchoolPrimary schoolResourced provision2-11Rayleigh17No overall grade 202434
Lexden Primary School with Unit for Hearing Impaired PupilsPrimary schoolResourced provision3-11Colchester15Good 202360
Mildmay Primary SchoolPrimary schoolResourced provision3-11Chelmsford24No overall grade 202540
Tany's Dell Primary School and NurseryPrimary schoolResourced provision3-11Harlow12Good 202285
Great Baddow High SchoolSecondary schoolResourced provision11-18Chelmsford22Report card 202666
Philip Morant School and CollegeSecondary schoolResourced provision11-18Colchester11Good 202348
The Sweyne Park SchoolSecondary schoolResourced provision11-19Rayleigh21No overall grade 202542

Special schools (2)

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

SchoolProvisionAgesTownPlacesOfstedScore
Oak View SchoolSpecial school · also autism, moderate learning difficulties, multi-sensory impairment, other needs and moreSpecial school3-19Loughton138 pupilsGood 2022–
The Edith Borthwick SchoolSpecial school · also autism, multi-sensory impairment, physical disability, profound and multiple learning difficulties and moreSpecial school3-19Braintree243 pupilsReport card 2026–

Mainstream schools listed for this need (1)

Registered for this need without a separate unit, so provision is within ordinary classes.

SchoolProvisionAgesTownPlacesOfstedScore
Lift ClactonSecondary school · also autism, moderate learning difficulties, physical disability and moreMainstream, listed for this need11-19Clacton on Sea–Good 20246
Other councilsAll schools in Essex

Other needs

AutismSpeech, language and communicationSocial, emotional and mental healthModerate learning difficultiesSevere learning difficultiesProfound and multiple learning difficultiesVisual impairmentMulti-sensory impairmentPhysical disabilitySpecific learning difficultiesOther 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.