School profile
Winchelsea School
Guernsey Road, Parkstone, Poole, Dorset, BH12 4LL
Overview
Winchelsea School is a special / send school (community special school) in Poole, South West, for pupils aged 4–19. This summary is generated only from official structured fields.
School details
- Official establishment type
- Community special school
- Establishment group
- Special schools
- Age range
- Ages 4–19
- Gender of entry
- Mixed
- Boarding
- No boarders
- School capacity
- 277
- Pupils on roll
- 248
- URN
- 113955
Admissions
- Local authority
- Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
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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.
2024/25 results
Reading, writing & maths — meeting the expected standard
- School
- Suppressed by DfE to protect individual pupils
- England
- 62%
Pupils included: 1
Reading, writing & maths — achieving a higher standard
- School
- Suppressed by DfE to protect individual pupils
- England
- 8%
Pupils included: 1
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 16 June 2026 · Published 20 July 2026
Renewed education inspection framework
- Safeguarding standards
- Met
- Inclusion
- Strong standard
- Curriculum and teaching
- Expected standard
- Achievement
- Expected standard
- Attendance and behaviour
- Strong standard
- Personal development and wellbeing
- Strong standard
- Early years (where applicable)
- Strong standard
- Post-16 provision (where applicable)
- Expected standard
- Leadership and governance
- Strong standard
Other recent inspection activity
These visits do not carry a graded judgement and do not replace the inspection above.
Ungraded inspection
Inspected 2 October 2019 · Published 22 October 2019
Outcome: School remains Good (Concerns) - S5 Next
Previous inspection information
Ofsted inspection
Inspected 7 June 2022 · Published 24 July 2022
Overall effectiveness: 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.
- SpLD - Specific Learning Difficulty
- VI - Visual Impairment
- OTH - Other Difficulty/Disability
- HI - Hearing Impairment
- SLCN - Speech, language and Communication
- ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder
- SEMH - Social, Emotional and Mental Health
- MSI - Multi-Sensory Impairment
- MLD - Moderate Learning Difficulty
- SLD - Severe Learning Difficulty
Location
- Address
- Guernsey Road, Parkstone, Poole, Dorset, BH12 4LL
- Local authority
- Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
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