Grove Park School
Church Road, Crowborough, TN6 1BN
This school is closed (it closed in June 2025).
It was replaced by Acre Wood Academy. That page has the school's current information.
- Phase
- Special schools
- School type
- Community special school
- Ages
- 4 to 19
- Gender
- Mixed
- Headteacher
- Ms Ali Causton
- SEN provision
- VI - Visual Impairment, HI - Hearing Impairment, ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder, PD - Physical Disability, MLD - Moderate Learning Difficulty, SLD - Severe Learning Difficulty, PMLD - Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulty
- Constituency
- Sussex Weald
- Setting
- Urban: Further from a major town or city
- Capacity
- 146
- Pupils on roll
- 143
- URN
- 114688
- Local authority
- East Sussex
About this school
Grove Park School was a community special school in Crowborough. It taught children aged 4 to 19 and had 143 pupils on roll.
Ofsted did not inspect it under the current framework.
Ofsted judgement
Grove Park 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 | 2023/24 | 2024/25 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils at the end of key stage 2 | 14 | 4 | 5 |
| Met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths | 0% | - | - |
| Reached the higher standard in reading, writing and maths | 0% | - | - |
| Expected standard in reading | 0% | - | - |
| Expected standard in maths | 0% | - | - |
| Expected standard in grammar, punctuation and spelling | 0% | - | - |
| Average scaled score in reading | - | - | - |
| Average scaled score in maths | - | - | - |
| Reading progress | -10.10 | - | - |
| Writing progress | -8.70 | - | - |
| Maths progress | -10.30 | - | - |
Progress measures ended nationally after the 2022/23 school year, when the key stage 1 assessments they were based on were stopped. Blank progress figures in later years are not missing school data.
Key stage 4 (GCSEs)
| Measure | 2022/23 | 2023/24 | 2024/25 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils at the end of key stage 4 | 8 | 12 | 14 |
| 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 Grove Park 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 | 8.6% | 6.8% |
| 2023/24 | 10.9% | 6.6% |
| 2024/25 | 11.5% | 6.2% |
Department for Education pupil absence data.
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 2022/23 | 133 |
| 2023/24 | 141 |
| 2024/25 | 143 |
School census, spring count each academic year.
School context
From the 2024/25 school census and absence figures.
- Free school meals (last 6 years)
- 30.89%
- English as an additional language
- 7.7%
- Overall absence
- 11.54%
- Persistent absence
- 21.93%
Location
Nearby schools
-
Acre Wood Academy0.0 miles
Academies · Crowborough
-
Skippers Hill Manor Preparatory School4.2 miles
Independent schools · Mayfield
-
Mayfield School5.1 miles
Independent schools · Mayfield
-
Holmewood House School5.7 miles
Independent schools · Tunbridge Wells
-
Michael Hall School6.3 miles
Independent schools · Forest Row
Other schools in Crowborough
- Acre Wood Academy Academies
- Ashdown Primary School Primary
- Jarvis Brook Primary School Primary
- Mark Cross Church of England Aided Primary School Primary
- Rotherfield Primary School Primary
- Sir Henry Fermor Church of England Primary School Primary
- St John's Church of England Primary School Primary
- St Marys Catholic Primary School Primary
- Beacon Academy Secondary
Common questions
- What ages does Grove Park School teach?
- Grove Park School taught children aged 4 to 19. It was a special school in Crowborough.
- Has Grove Park School been inspected?
- Ofsted has not inspected Grove Park 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 many pupils are at Grove Park School?
- Grove Park School had 143 pupils on roll, teaching children aged 4 to 19.
- What are Grove Park School's exam results?
- Where the Department for Education has published them, Grove Park 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 8 July 2025.