Valley School
- Valley School
Whitehaven Road
Bramhall
Stockport
Cheshire
SK7 1EN - Head: Ms Helen McLoughlin
- T 0161 439 7343
- F 0161 439 0664
- E [email protected]
- W www.valley.stockport.sch.uk
- A state special school for boys and girls aged from 2 to 11. Type of SEN provision: ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder; PD - Physical Disability; SLD - Severe Learning Difficulty.
- Boarding: No
- Local authority: Stockport
- Pupils: 59
- Religion: Does not apply
-
Ofsted:
- Latest Overall effectiveness Outstanding 1
- Early years provision Outstanding 2
- Effectiveness of leadership and management Outstanding 2
- 1 Short inspection 22nd April 2022
- 2 Full inspection 16th February 2011
Short inspection reports only give an overall grade; you have to read the report itself to gauge whether the detailed grading from the earlier full inspection still stands.
- Previous Ofsted grade: Outstanding on 7th November 2007
- Ofsted report: View the Ofsted report
What the school says...
Valley School is a special school with an inclusive nursery, maintained by Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council.
The school caters for primary aged pupils who have severe learning and/or physical needs. It has specialised provision in 3 classes for pupils who have needs on the autistic continuum.
The inclusive nursery class provides part time places for up to 40 mainstream pupils, and up to 12 children with special needs. ...Read more
This is not currently a GSG-reviewed school.
Do you know this school?
The schools we choose, and what we say about them, are founded on parents’ views. If you know this school, please share your views with us.
Please login to post a comment.
Overall school performance (for comparison or review only)
Entry/Exit
Special Education Needs
The school caters for children from two to eleven years who have a range of special educational needs. Pupils have severe, complex and profound and multiple learning difficulties. They may have physical disabilities or autistic spectrum disorders. Valley is a community special school.
Condition | Provision for in school |
---|---|
ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder | Y |
HI - Hearing Impairment | |
MLD - Moderate Learning Difficulty | |
MSI - Multi-Sensory Impairment | |
OTH - Other Difficulty/Disability | |
PD - Physical Disability | Y |
PMLD - Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulty | |
SEMH - Social, Emotional and Mental Health | |
SLCN - Speech, Language and Communication | |
SLD - Severe Learning Difficulty | Y |
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:
regularly
most years
quite often
infrequently
sometimes, but not in this year
The Good Schools Guide newsletter
Educational insight in your inbox. Sign up for our popular newsletters.