Marchbank Free School
- Marchbank Free School
Mowden Hall
Barnes Road
Darlington
County Durham
DL3 9BL - Head: Mrs Caroline Green
- T 01325 254670
- E [email protected]
- W www.educationvillage.org.uk
- A state school for boys and girls aged from 5 to 11.
- Boarding: No
- Local authority: Darlington
- Pupils: 50
- Religion: Does not apply
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Ofsted:
- Latest Overall effectiveness Good 1
- Outcomes for children and learners Good 1
- Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Outstanding 1
- Personal development, behaviour and welfare Outstanding 1
- Effectiveness of leadership and management Good 1
- 1 Full inspection 23rd January 2024
- Previous Ofsted grade: Requires improvement on 15th June 2021
- Ofsted report: View the Ofsted report
What the school says...
Marchbank Free School is a specialist provision for children with statements or EHCPs that identify difficulties related to BESD.
It offers high standard full time education for primary children within a nurturing ethos.
Distinctive features of the school include: a focus on developing literacy skills, small class sizes with high adult ratios, a stage not age approach, close home/school liaison and the opportunity to access outdoor learning in our superb mature grounds
We also belong to a Trust called The Education Village Academy Trust (EVAT) which comprises of a special school called Beaumont Hill Academy, a mainstream primary called Springfield Academy and mainstream secondary called Haughton Academy and another primary (on a separate site) called Gurney Pease Academy. ...Read more
This is not currently a GSG-reviewed school.
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Overall school performance (for comparison or review only)
Entry/Exit
Special Education Needs
| Condition | Provision for in school |
|---|---|
| ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder | |
| HI - Hearing Impairment | |
| MLD - Moderate Learning Difficulty | |
| MSI - Multi-Sensory Impairment | |
| OTH - Other Difficulty/Disability | |
| PD - Physical Disability | |
| PMLD - Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulty | |
| SEMH - Social, Emotional and Mental Health | Y |
| SLCN - Speech, Language and Communication | |
| SLD - Severe Learning Difficulty | |
| SpLD - Specific Learning Difficulty | |
| VI - Visual Impairment |
Interpreting catchment maps
The maps show in colour where the pupils at a school came from*. Red = most pupils to Blue = fewest.
Where the map is not coloured we have no record in the previous three years of any pupils being admitted from that location based on the options chosen.
For help and explanation of our catchment maps see: Catchment maps explained
Further reading
If there are more applicants to a school than it has places for, who gets in is determined by which applicants best fulfil the admissions criteria.
Admissions criteria are often complicated, and may change from year to year. The best source of information is usually the relevant local authority website, but once you have set your sights on a school it is a good idea to ask them how they see things panning out for the year that you are interested in.
Many schools admit children based on distance from the school or a fixed catchment area. For such schools, the cut-off distance will vary from year to year, especially if the school give priority to siblings, and the pattern will be of a central core with outliers (who will mostly be siblings). Schools that admit on the basis of academic or religious selection will have a much more scattered pattern.
*The coloured areas outlined in black are Census Output Areas. These are made up of a group of neighbouring postcodes, which accounts for their odd shapes. These provide an indication, but not a precise map, of the school’s catchment: always refer to local authority and school websites for precise information.
The 'hotter' the colour the more children have been admitted.
Children get into the school from here:
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sometimes, but not in this year
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