School profile
Fiveways Special School
Victoria Road, Yeovil, Somerset, BA21 5AZ
Overview
Fiveways Special School is a special / send school (community special school) in Yeovil, South West, for pupils aged 4–19. This summary is generated only from official structured fields.
School details
- Official establishment type
- Community special school
- Establishment group
- Special schools
- Age range
- Ages 4–19
- Gender of entry
- Mixed
- Boarding
- No boarders
- Sixth form
- Yes
- School capacity
- 100
- Pupils on roll
- 100
- URN
- 123944
Admissions
- Local authority
- Somerset
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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.
Primary
2024/25 results
Reading, writing & maths — meeting the expected standard
- School
- Suppressed by DfE to protect individual pupils
- England
- 62%
Pupils included: 3
Reading, writing & maths — achieving a higher standard
- School
- Suppressed by DfE to protect individual pupils
- England
- 8%
Pupils included: 3
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 18 June 2024 · Published 18 July 2024
Original education inspection framework (September 2019 to August 2024)
Overall effectiveness
Outstanding
This is a historical Ofsted judgement given under the previous inspection framework. It is not a School Nest rating.
- Quality of education
- Outstanding
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Outstanding
- Personal development
- Outstanding
- Effectiveness of leadership and management
- Outstanding
- Safeguarding was effective
- Yes
- Early years provision (where applicable)
- Outstanding
- 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 19 April 2023 · Published 14 June 2023
Outcome: School remains Outstanding (Concerns) - S5 Next
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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.
- SLD - Severe Learning Difficulty
- PMLD - Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulty
Location
- Address
- Victoria Road, Yeovil, Somerset, BA21 5AZ
- Local authority
- Somerset
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