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Schools with specific learning difficulties provision in Essex

Dyslexia, dyspraxia and dyscalculia, with structured literacy and numeracy teaching. Essex has 2 mainstream schools with a unit or resourced provision for specific learning difficulties and 1 special school that caters for it.

Mainstream schools with a unit or resourced provision (2)

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
Forest Hall SchoolSecondary school · also other needsSEN unit and resourced provision11-16Stansted Mountfitchet18Report card 202631
Mayflower High SchoolSecondary schoolResourced provision11-18Billericay19Report card 202552

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
Chatten Free SchoolSpecial school · also autism, other needs, profound and multiple learning difficulties, social, emotional and mental health and moreSpecial school4-19Rivenhall75 pupilsOutstanding 2024–

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, hearing impairment, moderate learning difficulties and moreMainstream, listed for this need11-19Clacton on Sea–Good 20246
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Other needs

AutismSpeech, language and communicationSocial, emotional and mental healthModerate learning difficultiesSevere learning difficultiesProfound and multiple learning difficultiesHearing impairmentVisual impairmentMulti-sensory impairmentPhysical disabilityOther 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.