School profile
New Horizons School (Part of the Sabden Multi Academy Trust)
Beauchamp Road, St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex, TN38 9JU
Overview
New Horizons School (Part of the Sabden Multi Academy Trust) is a special / send school (academy special converter) in St Leonards-on-Sea, South East, for pupils aged 5–16. This summary is generated only from official structured fields.
School details
- Official establishment type
- Academy special converter
- Establishment group
- Academies
- Age range
- Ages 5–16
- Gender of entry
- Mixed
- Boarding
- No boarders
- School capacity
- 166
- Pupils on roll
- 80
- URN
- 142151
Admissions
- Local authority
- East Sussex
- Academy trust or group
- THE SABDEN MULTI ACADEMY TRUST
Contact the school or your local authority for catchment and application deadlines.
Official performance data
School performance
Official Department for Education results for this school. Results are shown for the academic year they relate to.
2024/25 results
This is a special school. National performance measures are designed for mainstream schools and often do not reflect the needs of pupils here, so only the figures DfE publishes for this school are listed below.
| Measure | School |
|---|---|
| Grammar, punctuation & spelling — average scaled score | 89 |
| Grammar, punctuation & spelling — meeting the expected standard | 0% |
| Grammar, punctuation & spelling — achieving a high score | 0% |
| Maths — average scaled score | 86 |
| Maths — meeting the expected standard | 0% |
| Maths — achieving a high score | 0% |
| Reading — average scaled score | 92 |
| Reading — meeting the expected standard | 13% |
| Reading — achieving a high score | 0% |
| Reading, writing & maths — meeting the expected standard | 0% |
| Reading, writing & maths — achieving a higher standard | 0% |
| Science — meeting the expected standard | 0% |
| Writing — meeting the expected standard | 0% |
| Writing — working at greater depth | 0% |
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 24 June 2025 · Published 9 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
- Good
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Good
- Personal development
- Good
- Effectiveness of leadership and management
- Good
- Safeguarding was effective
- Yes
Other recent inspection activity
These visits do not carry a graded judgement and do not replace the inspection above.
Ungraded inspection
Inspected 19 October 2023 · Published 4 December 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.
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.
- ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder
- SEMH - Social, Emotional and Mental Health
Location
- Address
- Beauchamp Road, St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex, TN38 9JU
- Local authority
- East Sussex
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