Academy special converter
Kingswinford · DY6 8QN · Dudley
Ages 4–16
Status: Open
0.0 miles away
ClosedURN 103878
The Brier School
Community special school · Kingswinford · DY6 8QN
Ages 4–16 · 203 pupils · Dudley
Attainment 8
2.2
Overall absence
6.6%
Performance
Official school-level results. Figures are not rankings — suppressed values are omitted.
Key stage 4 (2023/24)
Progress 8-1.41
−20+2
Attainment 82.2
English & maths grade 5+0%
English & maths grade 4+7%
EBacc entry0%
EBacc APS: 0.1
Key stage 2 (2023/24)
Expected standard (RWM)0%
Higher standard (RWM)0%
- Avg scaled score — GPS
- 103.0
Absence
Academic year 2023/24. Persistent absence means 10%+ of sessions missed. Lower figures are better.
Overall absence6.6%
Persistent absence (10%+)18.1%
Unauthorised0.9%
- Authorised absence
- 5.7%
- Severe absence (50%+)
- 1.2%
- Enrolments in measure
- 171
Absence trend
2021/22
2022/23
2023/24
- Overall
- Persistent (10%+)
Size & intake
From the GIAS school census (16 Jan 2025).
Capacity fill101%
203 pupils · 200 places
- Pupils on roll
- 203
- Boys / girls
- 150 / 53
- School capacity
- 200
- Capacity fill
- 203 / 200 (101%)
- Free school meals
- 38.9%
- FSM pupils
- 79
- Gender
- Mixed
- School type
- Community special school
Age range
Ages 4–16
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
- Mr David Stanton
Location
- Address
- Bromley Lane
- Postcode
- DY6 8QN
- Town
- Kingswinford
- County
- West Midlands
- Local authority
- Dudley
- District
- Dudley
- Constituency
- Kingswinford and South Staffordshire
- Urban/rural
- (England/Wales) Urban major conurbation
SEN & specialist provision
As recorded in GIAS — provision detail, not an Ofsted judgement.
- SEN types
- VI - Visual Impairment; OTH - Other Difficulty/Disability; SLCN - Speech, language and Communication; ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder; PD - Physical Disability; MLD - Moderate Learning Difficulty; SLD - Severe 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 4–16, in Kingswinford, Dudley, 203 pupils on roll. Notable characteristics: special school. Free school meals: 38.9%. SEN provision includes: VI - Visual Impairment; OTH - Other Difficulty/Disability; SLCN - Speech, language and Communication….
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Contact
- Headteacher
- Mr David Stanton