Walton Leigh School
Queen's Road, Hersham, Walton-on-Thames, KT12 5AB
This school is closed (it closed in December 2025).
It was replaced by Walton Leigh School. That page has the school's current information.
- Phase
- Special schools
- School type
- Community special school
- Ages
- 11 to 19
- Gender
- Mixed
- Executive Headteacher
- Mr Mark Bryant
- SEN provision
- ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder, SLD - Severe Learning Difficulty, PMLD - Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulty
- Constituency
- Esher and Walton
- Setting
- Urban: Nearer to a major town or city
- Capacity
- 88
- Pupils on roll
- 90
- URN
- 125468
- Local authority
- Surrey
About this school
Walton Leigh School was a community special school in Walton-on-Thames. It taught children aged 11 to 19 and had 90 pupils on roll.
Ofsted did not inspect it under the current framework.
Ofsted judgement
Walton Leigh School has not been inspected by Ofsted yet.
Exam results
Key stage 4 (GCSEs)
| Measure | 2022/23 | 2023/24 | 2024/25 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils at the end of key stage 4 | 7 | 13 | 13 |
| 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 Walton Leigh 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 | 20% | 6.8% |
| 2023/24 | 17.1% | 6.6% |
| 2024/25 | 16% | 6.2% |
Department for Education pupil absence data.
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 2022/23 | 87 |
| 2023/24 | 86 |
| 2024/25 | 90 |
School census, spring count each academic year.
School context
From the 2024/25 school census and absence figures.
- Free school meals (last 6 years)
- 37.29%
- English as an additional language
- 16.7%
- Overall absence
- 15.98%
- Persistent absence
- 38.98%
Location
Nearby schools
-
Walton Leigh School0.0 miles
Academies · Walton-on-Thames
-
Ashley Park School1.0 miles
Special schools · Walton-on-Thames
-
The Danesfield Manor School1.2 miles
Independent schools · Walton-on-Thames
-
St George's Junior School1.3 miles
Independent schools · Weybridge
-
North East Surrey Secondary Short Stay School1.5 miles
Local authority maintained schools · Walton-on-Thames
Other schools in Walton-on-Thames
- Ashley Park School Special schools
- Hopescourt School Free Schools
- North East Surrey Secondary Short Stay School Local authority maintained schools
- Walton Leigh School Academies
- Ashley Church of England Primary School Primary
- Bell Farm Primary School Primary
- Walton Oak Primary School Primary
- Heathside Walton-on-Thames Secondary
- Three Rivers Academy Secondary
- The Danesfield Manor School Independent schools
Common questions
- What ages does Walton Leigh School teach?
- Walton Leigh School taught children aged 11 to 19. It was a special school in Walton-on-Thames.
- Has Walton Leigh School been inspected?
- Ofsted has not inspected Walton Leigh 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 Walton Leigh School?
- Walton Leigh School had 90 pupils on roll, teaching children aged 11 to 19.
- What are Walton Leigh School's exam results?
- Where the Department for Education has published them, Walton Leigh 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.