School profile
St Rose's Special School
Stratford Lawn, Stroud, Gloucestershire, GL5 4AP
Overview
St Rose's Special School is a special / send school (non-maintained special school) in Stroud, South West, for pupils aged 2–19. 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 2–19
- Gender of entry
- Mixed
- Boarding
- Boarding school
- Sixth form
- Yes
- School capacity
- 55
- Pupils on roll
- 75
- URN
- 115813
Admissions
- Local authority
- Gloucestershire
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 3 June 2025 · Published 3 July 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
- Outstanding
- Personal development
- Outstanding
- Effectiveness of leadership and management
- Good
- Safeguarding was effective
- Yes
- Early years provision (where applicable)
- Good
Other recent inspection activity
These visits do not carry a graded judgement and do not replace the inspection above.
Ungraded inspection
Inspected 15 November 2023 · Published 11 December 2023
Outcome: School remains Good (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.
- VI - Visual Impairment
- SLCN - Speech, language and Communication
- PD - Physical Disability
Location
- Address
- Stratford Lawn, Stroud, Gloucestershire, GL5 4AP
- Local authority
- Gloucestershire
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