Academy special sponsor led
Preston · PR5 5SS · Lancashire
Ages 4–16
Status: Open
0.0 miles away
ClosedURN 119880
Applebee Wood Community Specialist School
Community special school · Preston · PR5 5SS
Age range
Ages 4–16
Pupils
168
Local authority
Lancashire
Age range
Ages 4–16
05111619
Provision snapshot
Based on official GIAS characteristics
1 / 6
- Nursery
- Sixth form
- BoardingNo boarders
- Special school
- Independent
- Academy
Local context
How this school sits among open establishments in its area, using official GIAS records. These are counts, not rankings.
Mixed community special school, Ages 4–16, in Preston, Lancashire, 168 pupils on roll. Notable characteristics: special school. Free school meals: 50%. SEN provision includes: SpLD - Specific Learning Difficulty; VI - Visual Impairment; OTH - Other Difficulty/Disability….
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Overview
- School type
- Community special school
- Age range
- 4–16
- Gender
- Mixed
- Status
- Closed
- URN
- 119880
Location
- Address
- Far Croft, Lostock Hall
- Postcode
- PR5 5SS
- Town
- Preston
- County
- Lancashire
- Local authority
- Lancashire
- District
- South Ribble
- Constituency
- South Ribble
- Urban/rural
- Urban: Nearer to a major town or city
Size & intake
Pupil numbers and free school meals come from the GIAS school census fields. Capacity fill is calculated when both pupils and capacity are published. Census date: 16 Jan 2025.
- Pupils on roll
- 168
- Boys / girls
- 126 / 42
- School capacity
- 169
- Capacity fill
- 168 / 169 (99%)
- Free school meals
- 50%
- FSM pupils
- 84
- Gender
- Mixed
School characteristics
- Boarding
- No boarders
- Special classes
- Has Special Classes
- Governance
- Community special school
SEN & specialist provision
SEN types and resourced/SEN unit places as recorded in GIAS. This is provision detail, not an Ofsted judgement.
- SEN types
- 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; PD - Physical Disability; MLD - Moderate Learning Difficulty; SLD - Severe Learning Difficulty
- Special classes
- Has Special Classes
Contact
- Headteacher
- Mr John Cockerill (Interim)
Official links
Performance
Official school-level results from DfE school and college performance tables. Figures are not rankings — suppressed or unavailable values are omitted.
Key stage 4 (2023/24)
- Attainment 8
- 1.2
- Progress 8
- -1.6
- English & maths grade 5+
- 0%
- English & maths grade 4+
- 0%
- EBacc entry
- 0%
- EBacc APS
- 0.1
Key stage 2 (2023/24)
Absence
Pupil absence rates from DfE pupil absence in schools in England. Persistent absence means 10% or more of sessions missed; severe absence means 50% or more. Lower figures are better.
Academic year 2023/24
Overall absence
9.5%
Persistent absence
21.3%
Unauthorised
3.9%
- Authorised absence
- 5.5%
- Severe absence (50%+)
- 5.0%
- Enrolments in measure
- 160
Recent years
- 2022/23
- Overall 8.3% · Persistent 20.3%
- 2021/22
- Overall 6.9% · Persistent 17.0%