School profile
The Forest School
Park Lane, Knaresborough, North Yorkshire, HG5 0DQ
Overview
The Forest School is a special / send school (academy special converter) in Knaresborough, Yorkshire and the Humber, for pupils aged 2–16. This summary is generated only from official structured fields.
School details
- Official establishment type
- Academy special converter
- Establishment group
- Academies
- Age range
- Ages 2–16
- Gender of entry
- Mixed
- Boarding
- No boarders
- School capacity
- 127
- Pupils on roll
- 155
- URN
- 147819
Admissions
- Local authority
- North Yorkshire
- Academy trust or group
- WELLSPRING ACADEMY TRUST
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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.
Primary
2024/25 results
Reading, writing & maths — meeting the expected standard
- School
- Suppressed by DfE to protect individual pupils
- England
- 62%
Pupils included: 3
Reading, writing & maths — achieving a higher standard
- School
- Suppressed by DfE to protect individual pupils
- England
- 8%
Pupils included: 3
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 2025 · Published 10 June 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
- 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 18 December 2019 · Published 23 January 2020
Outcome: School remains Outstanding (Concerns) - S5 Next
This inspection relates to a predecessor school, The Forest 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.
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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.
- SpLD - Specific Learning Difficulty
- VI - Visual Impairment
- HI - Hearing Impairment
- SLCN - Speech, language and Communication
- ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder
- SEMH - Social, Emotional and Mental Health
- PD - Physical Disability
- MLD - Moderate Learning Difficulty
- SLD - Severe Learning Difficulty
Location
- Address
- Park Lane, Knaresborough, North Yorkshire, HG5 0DQ
- Local authority
- North Yorkshire
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