School profile
St Vincent's School - A Specialist School for Sensory Impairment and Other Needs
Yew Tree Lane, West Derby, Liverpool, Merseyside, L12 9HN
Overview
St Vincent's School - A Specialist School for Sensory Impairment and Other Needs is a special / send school (non-maintained special school) in Liverpool, North West, for pupils aged 4–19. 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 4–19
- Gender of entry
- Mixed
- Boarding
- Boarding school
- Sixth form
- Yes
- Religious ethos
- Roman Catholic
- School capacity
- 50
- Pupils on roll
- 48
- URN
- 104734
Admissions
- Local authority
- Liverpool
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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.
Secondary
2024/25 results
Attainment 8 score
- School
- Not published because of small pupil numbers
Pupils included: 2
Grade 5 or above in English & maths
- School
- Not published because of small pupil numbers
Pupils included: 2
Grade 4 or above in English & maths
- School
- Not published because of small pupil numbers
Pupils included: 2
Entering the EBacc
- School
- Not published because of small pupil numbers
Pupils included: 2
Progress 8 was not published for 2024/25.
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 23 April 2024 · Published 11 July 2024
Original education inspection framework (September 2019 to August 2024)
Overall effectiveness
Requires improvement
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
- Requires improvement
- Safeguarding was effective
- Yes
- Sixth form 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 2 February 2023 · Published 19 March 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.
- VI - Visual Impairment
- SLCN - Speech, language and Communication
- ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder
- MSI - Multi-Sensory Impairment
Location
- Address
- Yew Tree Lane, West Derby, Liverpool, Merseyside, L12 9HN
- Local authority
- Liverpool
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