The Children's Trust School
Tadworth Court, Tadworth, KT20 5RU
- Phase
- Special schools
- School type
- Non-maintained special school
- Ages
- 2 to 19
- Gender
- Mixed
- Head Teacher
- Miss Launa Randles
- Boarding
- Boarding school
- Nursery provision
- Has Nursery Classes
- SEN provision
- PMLD - Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulty
- Constituency
- Reigate
- Setting
- Urban: Nearer to a major town or city
- Capacity
- 49
- Pupils on roll
- 42
- URN
- 134902
- Local authority
- Surrey
- Telephone
- 01737365810
About this school
The Children's Trust School is a special school in Tadworth. It teaches children aged 2 to 19 and has 42 pupils on roll.
You can read Ofsted's latest judgement for the school below. Where the Department for Education has published them, its results and pupil characteristics appear below. Numbers and a report only go so far, so visit in person before you apply.
Ofsted judgement
Overall judgement at the last full inspection
This inspection took place under the previous framework, which gave a single overall grade. Ofsted now publishes report cards instead, so newer inspections of other schools will look different. How Ofsted report cards work
- Quality of education
- Outstanding
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Outstanding
- Personal development
- Outstanding
- Leadership and management
- Outstanding
- Safeguarding
- Effective
Exam results
Key stage 4 (GCSEs)
| Measure | 2022/23 | 2023/24 | 2024/25 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils at the end of key stage 4 | 9 | 8 | 9 |
| 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 The Children's Trust 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 | 13.9% | 6.8% |
| 2023/24 | 13.3% | 6.6% |
| 2024/25 | 16.4% | 6.2% |
Department for Education pupil absence data.
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 2022/23 | 41 |
| 2023/24 | 40 |
| 2024/25 | 42 |
School census, spring count each academic year.
Inspection history
- 19 September 2023
-
Ungraded inspection report16 November 2022
School context
From the 2024/25 school census and absence figures.
- Free school meals (last 6 years)
- 36.36%
- English as an additional language
- 9.5%
- Overall absence
- 16.36%
- Persistent absence
- 45.45%
Location
Nearby schools
-
The Surrey Teaching Centre0.0 miles
Local authority maintained schools · Tadworth
-
Chinthurst School0.7 miles
Independent schools
-
Aberdour Preparatory School1.2 miles
Independent schools
-
Bramley Hill School1.5 miles
Special schools
-
Epsom College2.4 miles
Independent schools · Epsom
Other schools in Tadworth
- Papillon House Special schools
- The Surrey Teaching Centre Local authority maintained schools
- Kingswood Primary School Primary
- Tadworth Primary School Primary
- Walton-on-the-Hill Primary School Primary
Common questions
- What year groups does The Children's Trust School teach?
- The Children's Trust School teaches children aged 2 to 19. It is a special school in Tadworth.
- Who is the head teacher of The Children's Trust School?
- The head teacher of The Children's Trust School is Miss Launa Randles, as recorded in the Department for Education's register of schools.
- When was The Children's Trust School last inspected?
- Ofsted has inspected The Children's Trust School, and its latest judgement is set out in the inspection section on this page, with the framework and the date it was made.
- How big is The Children's Trust School?
- The Children's Trust School has 42 pupils on roll, teaching children aged 2 to 19.
- Is The Children's Trust School full?
- The Children's Trust School has capacity for 49 pupils and 42 on roll (86%), so it has space against its published capacity. Places are allocated through the local authority's admissions process, so capacity alone does not tell you whether a place is available.
- Is The Children's Trust School a faith school?
- No. The Children's Trust School has no designated religious character.
- What SEN provision does The Children's Trust School have?
- The schools register lists The Children's Trust School's special educational needs provision as: PMLD - Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulty. Contact the school to discuss how it would support a particular child.
- What is The Children's Trust School's absence rate?
- The Children's Trust School's overall absence rate is 16.4% in the latest published census, above the England average of 6.2%.
- What are The Children's Trust School's exam results?
- Where the Department for Education has published them, The Children's Trust 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 1 July 2026.