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Schools with moderate learning difficulties provision in Leicestershire

For pupils who learn at a slower pace across the curriculum and need work adapted for them. Leicestershire has 6 mainstream schools with a unit or resourced provision for moderate learning difficulties and 6 special schools that cater for it.

Mainstream schools with a unit or resourced provision (6)

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
Wigston Menphys Nursery SchoolNursery school · also autism, hearing impairment, multi-sensory impairment and moreResourced provision2-5Wigston49Good 2019–
Brookside Primary SchoolPrimary schoolSEN unit and resourced provision4-11Leicester40Good 202295
Hugglescote Community Primary SchoolPrimary schoolSEN unit4-11Coalville11Good 2022–
Lift BeaconPrimary school · also speech, language and communicationSEN unit2-11Loughborough36Report card 202664
Westfield Infant SchoolPrimary schoolSEN unit4-7Hinckley24No overall grade 202547
RawlinsSecondary school · also autismSEN unit11-18Loughborough60No overall grade 202433

Special schools (6)

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
Birch Wood (Melton Area Special School)Special school · also autism, hearing impairment, multi-sensory impairment, other needs and moreSpecial school4-19Melton Mowbray246 pupilsGood 2024–
Dorothy Goodman School HinckleySpecial school · also autism, multi-sensory impairment, profound and multiple learning difficulties, speech, language and communication and moreSpecial school4-19Hinckley432 pupilsGood 2022–
Forest Way SchoolSpecial school · also autism, hearing impairment, multi-sensory impairment, physical disability and moreSpecial school3-19Coalville293 pupilsReport card 2026–
Homefield CollegeSpecial school · also social, emotional and mental healthSpecial school16-25Mountsorrel– pupilsNot inspected–
Maplewell Hall SchoolSpecial school · also autism, hearing impairment, multi-sensory impairment, physical disability and moreSpecial school11-19Loughborough326 pupilsOutstanding 2023–
Sense College LoughboroughSpecial school · also autism, multi-sensory impairment, physical disability, speech, language and communication and moreSpecial school16-25Loughborough– pupilsNot inspected–

Mainstream schools listed for this need (1)

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

SchoolProvisionAgesTownPlacesOfstedScore
Brownlow Primary SchoolPrimary school · also speech, language and communicationMainstream, listed for this need4-11Melton Mowbray–Good 202328
Other councilsAll schools in Leicestershire

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.