Windmill Hill School
York Street, Luton, LU2 0EZ
This school is closed (it closed in March 2025).
It was replaced by Lime Academy Hartwell. That page has the school's current information.
- Phase
- Free Schools
- School type
- Free schools special
- Ages
- 11 to 19
- Gender
- Mixed
- Religious character
- None
- Headteacher
- Mrs Michelle Brett
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- SEN provision
- SpLD - Specific Learning Difficulty, VI - Visual Impairment, OTH - Other Difficulty/Disability, HI - Hearing Impairment, SLCN - Speech, language and Communication, ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder, SEMH - Social, Emotional and Mental Health, MSI - Multi-Sensory Impairment, PD - Physical Disability, MLD - Moderate Learning Difficulty, SLD - Severe Learning Difficulty, PMLD - Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulty
- Constituency
- Luton South and South Bedfordshire
- Setting
- (England/Wales) Urban city and town
- Capacity
- 120
- Pupils on roll
- 118
- URN
- 148558
- Local authority
- Luton
About this school
Windmill Hill School was a special academy in Luton. It taught children aged 11 to 19 and had 118 pupils on roll.
Ofsted did not inspect it under the current framework.
Ofsted judgement
Windmill Hill School has not been inspected by Ofsted yet. It opened in its current form in September 2021, and new or converted schools usually wait a few years for their first inspection.
Exam results
Key stage 4 (GCSEs)
| Measure | 2024/25 |
|---|---|
| Pupils at the end of key stage 4 | 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 Windmill Hill 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 | 15.1% | 6.8% |
| 2023/24 | 13.9% | 6.6% |
| 2024/25 | 12.3% | 6.2% |
Department for Education pupil absence data.
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 2022/23 | 79 |
| 2023/24 | 103 |
| 2024/25 | 118 |
School census, spring count each academic year.
School context
From the 2024/25 school census and absence figures.
- Free school meals (last 6 years)
- 46.61%
- English as an additional language
- 52.5%
- Overall absence
- 12.27%
- Persistent absence
- 31.67%
Location
Nearby schools
-
Lime Academy Hartwell0.0 miles
Free Schools · Luton
-
Richmond Hill School0.5 miles
Special schools · Luton
-
University of Bedfordshire0.5 miles
Universities · Luton
-
Bury Park Educational Institute (Al - Hikmah Secondary School)0.8 miles
Independent schools · Luton
-
Lady Zia Wernher School1.0 miles
Special schools · Luton
Other schools in Luton
- Avenue Centre for Education Local authority maintained schools
- Claystone School Special schools
- Lady Zia Wernher School Special schools
- Lime Academy Hartwell Free Schools
- Richmond Hill School Special schools
- Woodlands Secondary School Special schools
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Common questions
- What year groups does Windmill Hill School teach?
- Windmill Hill School taught children aged 11 to 19. It was a special school in Luton.
- Has Windmill Hill School been inspected?
- Ofsted has not inspected Windmill Hill 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 Windmill Hill School?
- Windmill Hill School had 118 pupils on roll, teaching children aged 11 to 19.
- What are Windmill Hill School's exam results?
- Where the Department for Education has published them, Windmill Hill 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 11 July 2025.