The Flagship School[1]
Special · ages 7–16
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.
GCSE (key stage 4)
- Attainment 8
- 2.3 2025/26[2]
- Grade 5+ in English & maths
- 0% 2025/26[2]
- Grade 7+ in English & maths
- 0% 2025/26[2]
- Progress 8, 2025/26
- Not calculated[3]
- Progress 8, 2024/25
- Not calculated[3]
Ofsted
- Latest inspection
- 20 Jan 2026[5]
- Type
- S5 Inspection[5]
- Report published
- 28 May 2026[5]
- Inclusion
- Expected standard[5]
- Achievement
- Expected standard[5]
- Safeguarding standards
- Met[5]
- Curriculum and teaching
- Expected standard[5]
- Attendance and behaviour
- Expected standard[5]
- Leadership and governance
- Expected standard[5]
- Personal development and wellbeing
- Expected standard[5]
Competition to get in
No published data for this school.
Character & practicalities
- Type
- Free schools special[1]
- Ages
- 7–16[1]
- Boys / girls
- Mixed[1]
- Sixth form
- No[1]
- Boarding
- No boarders[1]
- Capacity
- 80[1]
- Trust
- THE BECKMEAD TRUST[1]
- Local authority
- East Sussex[1]
- Website
- https://www.beckmeadtrust.org/flagship[1]
- District
- Hastings[6]
- Postcode
- TN34 2AE[1]
- URN
- 149695[1]
School details as recorded in Get Information About Schools on 14 Oct 2026.
Pupils
- Number on roll
- 61 2024/25[7]
- English as an additional language
- 0% 2024/25[7]
- SEN support
- 0% 2024/25[7]
- EHC plan
- 100% 2024/25[7]
- Free school meals in the last 6 years
- 73.8% 2024/25[7]
Pupils' ethnicity 2025/26
- White
- 96.8%[8]
- Mixed
- 1.6%[8]
- Asian
- 0%[8]
- Black
- 0%[8]
- Any other ethnic group
- 1.6%[8]
- Unclassified
- 0%[8]
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: Performance tables schools data (explore education statistics). Period 2025/26, provisional, published 2026-10-15. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
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Department for Education: Key stage 4 performance 2024/25: data guidance. Period 2024/25.
Archived copy; original.
Licence: OGL-3.0.
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It is not possible to calculate Progress 8 for academic years 2024/25 and 2025/26 due to gaps in the baseline caused by COVID-19 disruption.
- Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 final. Period 2024/25, final. 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.
- 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.