School profile
Springwater Academy
High Street, Starbeck, Harrogate, North Yorkshire, HG2 7LW
Overview
Springwater Academy is a special / send school (academy special converter) in Harrogate, Yorkshire and the Humber, for pupils aged 2–19. This summary is generated only from official structured fields.
School details
- Official establishment type
- Academy special converter
- Establishment group
- Academies
- Age range
- Ages 2–19
- Gender of entry
- Mixed
- Boarding
- No boarders
- Sixth form
- Yes
- School capacity
- 155
- Pupils on roll
- 145
- URN
- 151754
Admissions
- Local authority
- North Yorkshire
- Academy trust or group
- THE ASCENT ACADEMIES' TRUST
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Official inspection data
Ofsted inspections
Inspection information published by Ofsted, shown in Ofsted's own words.
Ofsted inspection
Inspected 14 June 2022 · Published 22 September 2022
Original education inspection framework (September 2019 to August 2024)
This inspection relates to a predecessor school, Springwater School. It is not a judgement about the school under its current identity.
Overall effectiveness
Good
This is a historical Ofsted judgement given under the previous inspection framework. It is not a School Nest rating.
- Quality of education
- Good
- 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 11 December 2019 · Published 20 January 2020
Outcome: School remains Outstanding (Concerns) - S5 Next
This inspection relates to a predecessor school, Springwater School. It is not a judgement about the school under its current identity.
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.
- OTH - Other Difficulty/Disability
- SLCN - Speech, language and Communication
- ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder
- MSI - Multi-Sensory Impairment
- PD - Physical Disability
- SLD - Severe Learning Difficulty
- PMLD - Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulty
Location
- Address
- High Street, Starbeck, Harrogate, North Yorkshire, HG2 7LW
- Local authority
- North Yorkshire
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