School profile
The Flagship School
The Ridge, Hastings, TN34 2AE
Overview
The Flagship School is a special / send school (free schools special) in Hastings, South East, for pupils aged 7–16. This summary is generated only from official structured fields.
School details
- Official establishment type
- Free schools special
- Establishment group
- Free Schools
- Age range
- Ages 7–16
- Gender of entry
- Mixed
- Boarding
- No boarders
- Sixth form
- No
- School capacity
- 80
- Pupils on roll
- 63
- URN
- 149695
Admissions
- Local authority
- East Sussex
- Academy trust or group
- THE BECKMEAD 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.
Secondary
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 |
|---|---|
| Attainment 8 score | 6 |
| EBacc average point score | 0.45 |
| Entering the EBacc | 0% |
| Grade 4 or above in English & maths | 16.7% |
| Grade 5 or above in English & maths | 16.7% |
Source: Department for Education · School performance data.
Official inspection data
Ofsted inspections
Inspection information published by Ofsted, shown in Ofsted's own words.
Ofsted report card
Inspected 20 January 2026 · Published 28 May 2026
Renewed education inspection framework
- Safeguarding standards
- Met
- Inclusion
- Expected standard
- Curriculum and teaching
- Expected standard
- Achievement
- Expected standard
- Attendance and behaviour
- Expected standard
- Personal development and wellbeing
- Expected standard
- Early years (where applicable)
- Not applicable
- Post-16 provision (where applicable)
- Not applicable
- Leadership and governance
- Expected standard
Previous inspection information
Ofsted inspection
Inspected 16 March 2022 · Published 3 July 2022
Overall effectiveness: Inadequate
Safeguarding was effective: No
This inspection relates to a predecessor school, The Flagship 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
Location
- Address
- The Ridge, Hastings, TN34 2AE
- Local authority
- East Sussex
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