School profile
Lexden Springs School
Winstree Road, Colchester, Essex, CO3 0PZ
Overview
Lexden Springs School is a special / send school (academy special sponsor led) in Colchester, East of England, for pupils aged 3–19. This summary is generated only from official structured fields.
School details
- Official establishment type
- Academy special sponsor led
- Establishment group
- Academies
- Age range
- Ages 3–19
- Gender of entry
- Mixed
- Boarding
- Boarding school
- Sixth form
- Yes
- School capacity
- 290
- Pupils on roll
- 301
- URN
- 151484
Admissions
- Local authority
- Essex
- Academy trust or group
- HOPE LEARNING COMMUNITY
Contact the school or your local authority for catchment and application deadlines.
Official inspection data
Ofsted inspections
Inspection information published by Ofsted, shown in Ofsted's own words.
Ofsted inspection
Inspected 30 January 2024 · Published 24 April 2024
Original education inspection framework (September 2019 to August 2024)
This inspection relates to a predecessor school, Lexden Springs School. It is not a judgement about the school under its current identity.
Overall effectiveness
Inadequate
This is a historical Ofsted judgement given under the previous inspection framework. It is not a School Nest rating.
- Quality of education
- Requires improvement
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Good
- Personal development
- Good
- Effectiveness of leadership and management
- Inadequate
- Safeguarding was effective
- No
- Early years provision (where applicable)
- Requires improvement
- Sixth form provision (where applicable)
- Requires improvement
Ofsted recorded this school in a category of concern: Serious weaknesses. The official report explains what this means and what happens 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.
School Nest shows the inspection information Ofsted currently publishes for this school. It is not a complete record of every inspection the school has ever had.
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
- Winstree Road, Colchester, Essex, CO3 0PZ
- Local authority
- Essex
Ask School Nest AI
Ask a question about Lexden Springs School
Answers use only this school's official Department for Education record and the information the school has published on School Nest. If we don't hold the answer, School Nest AI will say so rather than guess.
AI can make mistakes and doesn't decide admissions — check important details with the school. Questions are sent to our AI provider and aren't stored by School Nest. See our Privacy Notice.
Contact this school
Parent Enquiries let families send a message straight to the school.