The Skills Hub[1]
Special · ages 5–19
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
- S8 No Formal Designation Visit[2]
- Report published
- 5 Mar 2026[2]
- Inclusion
- Urgent improvement[2]
- Achievement
- Needs attention[2]
- Category of concern
- SM[2]
- Safeguarding standards
- Not met[2]
- Curriculum and teaching
- Urgent improvement[2]
- Attendance and behaviour
- Urgent improvement[2]
- Leadership and governance
- Urgent improvement[2]
- Personal development and wellbeing
- Urgent improvement[2]
Competition to get in
No published data for this school.
Character & practicalities
- Type
- Free schools alternative provision[1]
- Ages
- 5–19[1]
- Boys / girls
- Mixed[1]
- Admissions
- Non-selective[1]
- Sixth form
- Yes[1]
- Boarding
- No boarders[1]
- Capacity
- 120[1]
- Trust
- ORCHARD HILL COLLEGE ACADEMY TRUST[1]
- Local authority
- Hillingdon[1]
- Website
- https://theskillshub.org/[1]
- District
- Hillingdon[4]
- Postcode
- UB7 8AB[1]
- URN
- 149033[1]
School details as recorded in Get Information About Schools on 14 Oct 2026.
Pupils
- Number on roll
- 50 2024/25[5]
- English as an additional language
- 30% 2024/25[5]
- SEN support
- 32% 2024/25[5]
- EHC plan
- 4% 2024/25[5]
- Free school meals in the last 6 years
- 67.5% 2024/25[5]
Pupils' ethnicity 2025/26
- White
- 39.6%[6]
- Mixed
- 8.3%[6]
- Asian
- 12.5%[6]
- Black
- 20.8%[6]
- Any other ethnic group
- 16.7%[6]
- Unclassified
- 2.1%[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 2024/25. 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.