Beechcliffe Special School
Green Head Road, Utley, Keighley, BD20 6ED
This school is closed (it closed in December 2023).
It was replaced by Beechcliffe Special School. That page has the school's current information.
- Phase
- Special schools
- School type
- Community special school
- Ages
- 11 to 19
- Gender
- Mixed
- Headteacher
- Mr Lee Harris
- SEN provision
- SpLD - Specific Learning Difficulty, VI - Visual Impairment, HI - Hearing Impairment, SLCN - Speech, language and Communication, ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder, MSI - Multi-Sensory Impairment, PD - Physical Disability, SLD - Severe Learning Difficulty, PMLD - Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulty
- Constituency
- Keighley
- Setting
- (England/Wales) Urban city and town
- Capacity
- 224
- Pupils on roll
- 245
- URN
- 135229
- Local authority
- Bradford
About this school
Beechcliffe Special School was a community special school in Keighley. It taught children aged 11 to 19 and had 245 pupils on roll.
Ofsted did not inspect it under the current framework.
Ofsted judgement
Beechcliffe Special School has not been inspected by Ofsted yet. It opened in its current form in April 2010, and new or converted schools usually wait a few years for their first inspection.
Exam results
Key stage 4 (GCSEs)
| Measure | 2022/23 | 2023/24 |
|---|---|---|
| Pupils at the end of key stage 4 | 32 | 49 |
| Attainment 8 score | 1.0 | 0.4 |
| Progress 8 score | -1.92 -2.56 to -1.29 | -1.87 -2.35 to -1.38 |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 0% | 0% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 0% | 0% |
| Entered the English Baccalaureate | 0% | 0% |
| English Baccalaureate average point score | 0.1 | 0.0 |
Trends over time
How Beechcliffe Special 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 | Bradford average | England average |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022/23 | 1 | 41.2 | 39.8 |
| 2023/24 | 0.4 | 41.5 | 39.5 |
| 2024/25 | — | 40 | 39 |
Department for Education KS4 performance data, published school results.
School context
From the 2022/23 school census and absence figures.
- Free school meals (last 6 years)
- 64.1%
- English as an additional language
- 26.9%
- Overall absence
- 19.8%
- Persistent absence
- 49.5%
Location
Nearby schools
-
Beechcliffe Special School0.0 miles
Academies · Keighley
-
Beckfoot Phoenix1.0 miles
Academies · Keighley
-
Lady Lane Park School & Nursery3.8 miles
Independent schools · Bingley
-
Hazelbeck Special School4.6 miles
Academies · Bingley
-
Moorfield School & Nursery5.1 miles
Independent schools · Ilkley
Other schools in Keighley
- Beckfoot Phoenix Academies
- Beechcliffe Special School Academies
- Strong Close Nursery School Nursery
- Beckfoot Nessfield Primary
- Bradleys Both Community Primary School Primary
- Cononley Primary School Primary
- Cowling Community Primary School Primary
- East Morton CofE Primary School Primary
- Eastburn Primary School Primary
- Eastwood Community School Primary
- Glusburn Community Primary School Primary
- Haworth Primary School Primary
Common questions
- What year groups does Beechcliffe Special School teach?
- Beechcliffe Special School taught children aged 11 to 19. It was a special school in Keighley.
- Has Beechcliffe Special School been inspected?
- Ofsted has not inspected Beechcliffe Special 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 Beechcliffe Special School?
- Beechcliffe Special School had 245 pupils on roll, teaching children aged 11 to 19.
- How have Beechcliffe Special School's results changed over recent years?
- Its Attainment 8 score was 1 in 2022/23 and 0.4 in 2023/24. The year-by-year figures, alongside local and national averages, are charted in the trends section on this page.
- What are Beechcliffe Special School's exam results?
- Where the Department for Education has published them, Beechcliffe Special 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 2023.