School profile
Unified Academy
Chart Lane South, Dorking, RH5 4DB
Overview
Unified Academy is a special / send school (academy special sponsor led) in Dorking, South East, for pupils aged 9–16. This summary is generated only from official structured fields.
School details
- Official establishment type
- Academy special sponsor led
- Establishment group
- Academies
- Age range
- Ages 9–16
- Gender of entry
- Boys
- Boarding
- No boarders
- School capacity
- 120
- Pupils on roll
- 82
- URN
- 146527
Admissions
- Local authority
- Surrey
- Academy trust or group
- ORCHARD HILL COLLEGE 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.
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 | 4.4 |
| EBacc average point score | 0.22 |
| Entering the EBacc | 0% |
| Grade 4 or above in English & maths | 0% |
| Grade 5 or above in English & maths | 0% |
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 8 July 2025 · Published 24 September 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
- Requires improvement
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Requires improvement
- Personal development
- Good
- Effectiveness of leadership and management
- Good
- Safeguarding was effective
- Yes
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.
- ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder
- SEMH - Social, Emotional and Mental Health
Location
- Address
- Chart Lane South, Dorking, RH5 4DB
- Local authority
- Surrey
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