Portland School and Specialist College
Uttoxeter Road, Blythe Bridge, Stoke-on-Trent, ST11 9JG
This school is closed (it closed in January 2023).
It was replaced by Portland School. That page has the school's current information.
- Phase
- Special schools
- School type
- Foundation special school
- Ages
- 3 to 16
- Gender
- Mixed
- Headteacher
- Miss Joanne McKinney
- SEN provision
- SEMH - Social, Emotional and Mental Health, MLD - Moderate Learning Difficulty
- Constituency
- Stone
- Setting
- (England/Wales) Urban city and town
- Capacity
- 140
- Pupils on roll
- 95
- URN
- 124498
- Local authority
- Stoke-on-Trent
About this school
Portland School and Specialist College was a foundation special school in Stoke-on-Trent. It taught children aged 3 to 16 and had 95 pupils on roll.
Ofsted did not inspect it under the current framework.
Ofsted judgement
Portland School and Specialist College 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 | 13 |
| 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 | 85.0 |
| Average scaled score in maths | 83.0 |
| Reading progress | -17.70 |
| Writing progress | -14.90 |
| Maths progress | -17.60 |
Key stage 4 (GCSEs)
| Measure | 2022/23 |
|---|---|
| Pupils at the end of key stage 4 | 20 |
| 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 | - |
School context
From the 2022/23 school census and absence figures.
- Free school meals (last 6 years)
- 76.8%
- English as an additional language
- 1.1%
- Overall absence
- 25.6%
- Persistent absence
- 66.3%
Location
Nearby schools
-
Portland School0.2 miles
Academies · Stoke-on-Trent
-
Kinetic Academy1.2 miles
Independent schools · Stoke-on-Trent
-
Rowan House School1.3 miles
Special schools
-
Abbey Hill Academy & College1.5 miles
Academies · Stoke-On-Trent
-
Draycott Moor College1.7 miles
Special schools · Stoke-on-Trent
Other schools in Stoke-on-Trent
- Abbey Hill Academy & College Academies
- Alpha Learning Staffordshire Special schools
- Church Lawton School Free Schools
- Cicely Haughton School Academies
- Draycott Moor College Special schools
- Edison Pace School Special schools
- Emerge School Special schools
- Intuition Holistic Education Special schools
- Kemball School Academies
- Manor Abbey School Free Schools
- Merit Hospital School and Medical Pupil Referral Unit Local authority maintained schools
- Newfriars College Other types
Common questions
- What year groups does Portland School and Specialist College teach?
- Portland School and Specialist College taught children aged 3 to 16. It was a special school in Stoke-on-Trent.
- Has Portland School and Specialist College been inspected?
- Ofsted has not inspected Portland School and Specialist College 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 Portland School and Specialist College?
- Portland School and Specialist College had 95 pupils on roll, teaching children aged 3 to 16.
- What are Portland School and Specialist College's exam results?
- Where the Department for Education has published them, Portland School and Specialist College'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 12 September 2023.