Academy converter · Primary
Plymouth · PL5 4HD · Plymouth
Ages 5–11
Status: Open
0.2 miles away
OpenOfsted: Not judgedURN 113648
Brook Green Centre for Learning
Community special school · Plymouth · PL5 4DZ
Ages 11–16 · 111 pupils · Plymouth
Ofsted
Not judged
Attainment 8
3.8
Overall absence
7.5%
Ofsted
Latest published inspection outcomes — not a ranking.
Headline
Not judged
Inspection date
2024-12-10
- Overall effectiveness
- Not judged
- Quality of education
- Good
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Good
- Personal development
- Outstanding
- Leadership and management
- Good
- Safeguarding effective
- Yes
Performance
Official school-level results. Figures are not rankings — suppressed values are omitted.
Key stage 4 (2023/24)
Progress 8-1.27
−20+2
Attainment 83.8
English & maths grade 5+0%
English & maths grade 4+0%
EBacc entry0%
EBacc APS: 0.3
Absence
Academic year 2023/24. Persistent absence means 10%+ of sessions missed. Lower figures are better.
Overall absence7.5%
Persistent absence (10%+)20.6%
Unauthorised2.7%
- Authorised absence
- 4.7%
- Severe absence (50%+)
- 2.9%
- Enrolments in measure
- 102
Absence trend
2021/22
2022/23
2023/24
- Overall
- Persistent (10%+)
Size & intake
From the GIAS school census (15 Jan 2026).
Capacity fill113%
111 pupils · 98 places
- Pupils on roll
- 111
- Boys / girls
- 79 / 32
- School capacity
- 98
- Capacity fill
- 111 / 98 (113%)
- Free school meals
- 58.6%
- FSM pupils
- 65
- Gender
- Mixed
- School type
- Community special school
Age range
Ages 11–16
05111619
Provision
Official GIAS characteristics
1 / 6
- Nursery
- Sixth form
- Boarding
- Special school
- Independent
- Academy
School characteristics
- Special classes
- Has Special Classes
- Governance
- Community special school
- Headteacher
- Mrs Sarah Holt
Location
- Address
- Bodmin Road, Whitleigh
- Postcode
- PL5 4DZ
- Town
- Plymouth
- County
- Devon
- Local authority
- Plymouth
- District
- Plymouth
- Constituency
- Plymouth Moor View
- Urban/rural
- Urban: Nearer to a major town or city
SEN & specialist provision
As recorded in GIAS — provision detail, not an Ofsted judgement.
- SEN types
- SEMH - Social, Emotional and Mental Health; MLD - Moderate Learning Difficulty
- Special classes
- Has Special Classes
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 11–16, in Plymouth, Plymouth, 111 pupils on roll. Notable characteristics: special school. Free school meals: 58.6%. SEN provision includes: SEMH - Social, Emotional and Mental Health; MLD - Moderate Learning Difficulty.
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Contact
- Headteacher
- Mrs Sarah Holt
- Telephone
- 01752773875