Summerdown School[1]
Special · ages 3–16
Headline results
Special schools' results are not shown as headlines: they are not comparable with mainstream schools'.
Results
Results at special schools and alternative provision aren't comparable with mainstream schools'. Shown as published, not compared.
Primary (key stage 2)
- Expected standard (reading, writing & maths)
- 0% 2024/25[2]
- Higher standard (reading, writing & maths)
- 0% 2024/25[2]
- Reading, average scaled score
- 80 2024/25[2]
- Maths, average scaled score
- 81 2024/25[2]
Ofsted
- Latest inspection
- 28 Jan 2025[4]
- Type
- S5 Inspection[4]
- Report published
- 3 Mar 2025[4]
- Personal development
- Outstanding[4]
- Quality of education
- Outstanding[4]
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Outstanding[4]
- Safeguarding is effective?
- Yes[4]
- Early years provision (where applicable)
- Outstanding[4]
- Effectiveness of leadership and management
- Outstanding[4]
Competition to get in
No published data for this school.
Character & practicalities
- Type
- Free schools special[1]
- Ages
- 3–16[1]
- Boys / girls
- Mixed[1]
- Admissions
- Non-selective[1]
- Sixth form
- No[1]
- Capacity
- 155[1]
- Trust
- THE SOUTHFIELD TRUST[1]
- Local authority
- East Sussex[1]
- Website
- www.thesouthfieldtrust.com[1]
- District
- Eastbourne[5]
- Postcode
- BN22 9PZ[1]
- URN
- 149138[1]
School details as recorded in Get Information About Schools on 14 Oct 2026.
Pupils
- Number on roll
- 161 2024/25[6]
- English as an additional language
- 6.2% 2024/25[6]
- SEN support
- 0.6% 2024/25[6]
- EHC plan
- 99.4% 2024/25[6]
- Free school meals in the last 6 years
- 32.3% 2024/25[6]
Pupils' ethnicity 2025/26
- White
- 79.3%[7]
- Mixed
- 10.3%[7]
- Asian
- 2.3%[7]
- Black
- 3.4%[7]
- Any other ethnic group
- 0.6%[7]
- Unclassified
- 4%[7]
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.
- Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS2 final. Period 2024/25, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
- Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS2 final. Period 2023/24, final. 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.