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Schools with hearing impairment provision in Kent

Deaf and hard-of-hearing pupils, with teachers of the deaf, acoustically treated rooms and often British Sign Language. Kent has 9 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 (9)

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
Bromstone Primary School, BroadstairsPrimary school · also autism, speech, language and communication, visual impairmentResourced provision4-11Broadstairs38No overall grade 20246
Castle Hill Community Primary SchoolPrimary schoolResourced provision3-11Folkestone16Good 202416
Fleetdown Primary AcademyPrimary schoolResourced provision4-11Dartford4No overall grade 202560
Leigh Academy MolehillPrimary school · also speech, language and communicationResourced provision3-11Maidstone5No overall grade 202499
Slade Primary School and Attached Unit for Children with Hearing ImpairmentPrimary schoolResourced provision4-11Tonbridge7Good 202454
Sir Geoffrey Leigh AcademySecondary school · also speech, language and communicationResourced provision11-19Dartford16Good 202351
St Gregory's Catholic SchoolSecondary schoolResourced provision11-18Tunbridge Wells–No overall grade 202449
The Canterbury AcademySecondary school · also autism, speech, language and communicationResourced provision11-19Canterbury58Report card 202623
The Sittingbourne SchoolSecondary school · also speech, language and communicationResourced provision11-19Sittingbourne82Good 202314

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.

SchoolProvisionAgesTownPlacesOfstedScore
Oakley SchoolSpecial school · also autism, moderate learning difficulties, multi-sensory impairment, profound and multiple learning difficulties and moreSpecial school4-19Tunbridge Wells224 pupilsNot inspected–
Other councilsAll schools in Kent

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.