The Rowans[1]
Special · ages 5–16
Headline results
Special schools' results are not shown as headlines: they are not comparable with mainstream schools'.
Results
No published data for this school.
Ofsted
- Latest inspection
- 9 Dec 2025[2]
- Type
- S5 Inspection[2]
- Report published
- 1 Mar 2026[2]
- Inclusion
- Strong standard[2]
- Achievement
- Strong standard[2]
- Safeguarding standards
- Met[2]
- Curriculum and teaching
- Strong standard[2]
- Attendance and behaviour
- Strong standard[2]
- Leadership and governance
- Strong standard[2]
- Personal development and wellbeing
- Strong standard[2]
Competition to get in
No published data for this school.
Character & practicalities
- Type
- Academy alternative provision converter[1]
- Ages
- 5–16[1]
- Boys / girls
- Mixed[1]
- Boarding
- No boarders[1]
- Capacity
- 95[1]
- Trust
- THE HOWARD ACADEMY TRUST[1]
- Local authority
- Medway[1]
- Website
- www.therowans.org[1]
- District
- Medway[4]
- Postcode
- ME5 0LB[1]
- URN
- 144134[1]
School details as recorded in Get Information About Schools on 14 Oct 2026.
Pupils
- Number on roll
- 70 2024/25[5]
- English as an additional language
- 0% 2024/25[5]
- SEN support
- 70% 2024/25[5]
- EHC plan
- 30% 2024/25[5]
- Free school meals in the last 6 years
- 71.4% 2024/25[5]
Pupils' ethnicity 2025/26
- White
- 85.2%[6]
- Mixed
- 13%[6]
- Asian
- 0%[6]
- Black
- 1.9%[6]
- Any other ethnic group
- 0%[6]
- Unclassified
- 0%[6]
The school census's major ethnic groups as shares of the school's pupils, summed by us from the published counts. For information only: never used to rank, filter or colour schools.
Sources
- Department for Education: Get Information About Schools: all establishments. Period 2026-10-14, published 2026-10-14. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
- Ofsted: State-funded schools inspections and outcomes. Period 2025/26. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
- Ofsted: State-funded schools inspections and outcomes. Period 2021/22. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
- Office for National Statistics: Parish to Ward to Local Authority District (May 2026) Lookup in EW. Period 2026-05-01. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
- Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: School census. Period 2024/25, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
- Department for Education: Schools, pupils and their characteristics: school level underlying data. Period 2025/26, published 2026-06-04. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.