Bradstow School
34 Dumpton Park Drive, Morpeth Street, Broadstairs, CT10 1BY
This school is closed (it closed in December 2025).
- Phase
- Special schools
- School type
- Community special school
- Ages
- 5 to 19
- Gender
- Mixed
- Headteacher
- Miss Sarah Adams
- Boarding
- Boarding school
- SEN provision
- ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder, SLD - Severe Learning Difficulty
- Constituency
- East Thanet
- Setting
- Urban: Further from a major town or city
- Capacity
- 36
- Pupils on roll
- 29
- URN
- 101095
- Local authority
- Wandsworth
About this school
Bradstow School was a community special school in Broadstairs. It taught children aged 5 to 19 and had 29 pupils on roll.
Ofsted did not inspect it under the current framework.
Ofsted judgement
Bradstow School has not been inspected by Ofsted yet. It opened in its current form in January 1900, and new or converted schools usually wait a few years for their first inspection.
Exam results
Key stage 2 (end of primary school)
| Measure | 2022/23 |
|---|---|
| Pupils at the end of key stage 2 | 4 |
| Met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths | - |
| Reached the higher standard in reading, writing and maths | - |
| Expected standard in reading | - |
| Expected standard in maths | - |
| Expected standard in grammar, punctuation and spelling | - |
| Average scaled score in reading | - |
| Average scaled score in maths | - |
Key stage 4 (GCSEs)
| Measure | 2022/23 | 2023/24 | 2024/25 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils at the end of key stage 4 | 10 | 9 | 6 |
| Attainment 8 score | - | - | - |
| Progress 8 score | - | - | - |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | - | - | - |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | - | - | - |
| Entered the English Baccalaureate | - | - | - |
| English Baccalaureate average point score | - | - | - |
Progress 8 is paused nationally for the 2024/25 and 2025/26 school years. Those pupils sat no key stage 2 tests during the Covid pandemic, so there is no starting point to measure progress from. A blank figure here is not missing school data.
Trends over time
How Bradstow School has moved over recent years against the local and national picture. Every figure is shown in the table beneath its chart.
| Year | This school | England average |
|---|---|---|
| 2022/23 | — | 6.8% |
| 2023/24 | 44.6% | 6.6% |
| 2024/25 | 5.4% | 6.2% |
Department for Education pupil absence data.
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 2022/23 | 60 |
| 2023/24 | 58 |
| 2024/25 | 29 |
School census, spring count each academic year.
School context
From the 2024/25 school census and absence figures.
- Free school meals (last 6 years)
- 47.06%
- English as an additional language
- 0%
- Overall absence
- 5.42%
- Persistent absence
- 17.65%
Location
Nearby schools
-
Maple Tree Primary School0.4 miles
Special schools
-
Wellesley Haddon Dene School0.5 miles
Independent schools
-
Stone Bay School1.0 miles
Special schools · Broadstairs
-
Foreland Fields School1.1 miles
Special schools · Ramsgate
-
St Lawrence College Junior School1.2 miles
Independent schools · Ramsgate
Other schools in Broadstairs
- Stone Bay School Special schools
- Bromstone Primary School, Broadstairs Primary
- Callis Grange Nursery and Infant School Primary
- Ramsgate, Holy Trinity Church of England Primary School Primary
- St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Broadstairs Primary
- St Mildred's Primary Infant School Primary
- St Peter-in-Thanet CofE Junior School Primary
- Upton Junior School Primary
- Dane Court Grammar School Secondary
- The Charles Dickens School Secondary
- St George's Church of England Foundation School All-through
- EKC Group 16 plus
Common questions
- What year groups does Bradstow School teach?
- Bradstow School taught children aged 5 to 19. It was a special school in Broadstairs.
- Has Bradstow School been inspected?
- Ofsted has not inspected Bradstow School under its current framework, so no current judgement is shown. That is common for newer schools and is not a mark against a school.
- How big is Bradstow School?
- Bradstow School had 29 pupils on roll, teaching children aged 5 to 19.
- What are Bradstow School's exam results?
- Where the Department for Education has published them, Bradstow School's key stage results are shown in the results section on this page, with the last three years so you can see the trend rather than a single year.
School details come from the Department for Education's Get Information About Schools register. Inspection outcomes come from Ofsted, and exam results from the Department for Education's school performance service. This page was last updated on 31 December 2025.