School profile
Dawn House School
Helmsley Road, Rainworth, Nr Mansfield, Notts, Nottinghamshire, NG21 0DQ
Overview
Dawn House School is a special / send school (non-maintained special school) in Nr Mansfield, Notts, East Midlands, for pupils aged 5–19. This summary is generated only from official structured fields.
School details
- Official establishment type
- Non-maintained special school
- Establishment group
- Special schools
- Age range
- Ages 5–19
- Gender of entry
- Mixed
- Boarding
- No boarders
- Sixth form
- Yes
- School capacity
- 120
- Pupils on roll
- 113
- URN
- 122956
Admissions
- Local authority
- Nottinghamshire
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Official performance data
School performance
Official Department for Education results for this school. Results are shown for the academic year they relate to.
Secondary
2024/25 results
DfE does not publish a directly comparable England figure for independent schools, so no comparison is shown.
Attainment 8 score
- School
- 3.1
Pupils included: 13
Grade 5 or above in English & maths
- School
- 0%
Pupils included: 13
Grade 4 or above in English & maths
- School
- 0%
Pupils included: 13
Entering the EBacc
- School
- 0%
Pupils included: 13
Progress 8 was not published for 2024/25.
Source: Department for Education · School performance data.
Official inspection data
Ofsted inspections
Inspection information published by Ofsted, shown in Ofsted's own words.
Ofsted inspection
Inspected 1 July 2025 · Published 7 September 2025
Original education inspection framework (September 2024 to November 2025)
Ofsted did not give schools an overall effectiveness grade during this inspection period. The judgements Ofsted did publish are shown below.
- Quality of education
- Outstanding
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Outstanding
- Personal development
- Outstanding
- Effectiveness of leadership and management
- Outstanding
- Safeguarding was effective
- Yes
- Sixth form provision (where applicable)
- Outstanding
Other recent inspection activity
These visits do not carry a graded judgement and do not replace the inspection above.
Ungraded inspection
Inspected 29 June 2023 · Published 13 September 2023
Outcome: School remains Outstanding (Concerns) - S5 Next
Ofsted changed how it inspects and reports on schools in November 2025. Judgements from the previous and current frameworks use different systems and should not be directly compared.
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Source: Ofsted · Inspections and outcomes. Official Ofsted page for this school
SEND and additional needs
Types of special educational need recorded in the official dataset. These describe recorded provision, not a judgement of quality.
- SLCN - Speech, language and Communication
Location
- Address
- Helmsley Road, Rainworth, Nr Mansfield, Notts, Nottinghamshire, NG21 0DQ
- Local authority
- Nottinghamshire
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