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Schools with moderate learning difficulties provision in Barking and Dagenham

For pupils who learn at a slower pace across the curriculum and need work adapted for them. Barking and Dagenham has 8 mainstream schools with a unit or resourced provision for moderate learning difficulties 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
Dorothy Barley Junior AcademyPrimary school · also severe learning difficultiesSEN unit and resourced provision7-11Dagenham24Good 202317
George Carey Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary school · also autism, social, emotional and mental health, speech, language and communicationSEN unit and resourced provision3-11Barking36Good 202355
Richard Alibon Primary School with ARP for Cognitive and Learning Difficulties : SEN BasePrimary schoolSEN unit3-11Dagenham18Good 202381
St Peter's Catholic Primary SchoolPrimary schoolSEN unit and resourced provision3-11Dagenham14Good 202383
Valence Primary SchoolPrimary school · also autism, physical disability, profound and multiple learning difficulties and moreSEN unit and resourced provision3-11Dagenham64Good 202435
Barking Abbey School, A Specialist Sports and Humanities CollegeSecondary school · also autismSEN unit and resourced provision11-18Barking113Outstanding 202476
Dagenham Park CofE SchoolSecondary schoolSEN unit11-19Dagenham50Not inspected33
The Warren SchoolSecondary schoolResourced provision11-18Romford15Outstanding 202481

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
Pathways SchoolSpecial school · also social, emotional and mental health, speech, language and communicationSpecial school6-19Dagenham83 pupilsGood 2024–
Riverside Bridge SchoolSpecial school · also autism, profound and multiple learning difficulties, speech, language and communication, severe learning difficultiesSpecial school4-16Barking291 pupilsGood 2020–
Other councilsAll schools in Barking and Dagenham

Other needs

AutismSpeech, language and communicationSocial, emotional and mental healthSevere learning difficultiesProfound and multiple learning difficultiesHearing impairmentVisual 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.