Winchelsea SchoolThe Lion Works School

Inspection, results, pupils and attendance side by side in Poole.

Summary of the comparison

This page compares Winchelsea School and The Lion Works School in Poole.

Neither school has a composite score. Our score needs published attainment data, which is not available for every school or every nation.
On GCSE Attainment 8, the latest published figures are 0.1 for Winchelsea School and 3.3 for The Lion Works School.
GCSE Attainment 8 has fallen at The Lion Works School (8.3 in 2022-23, 3.3 in 2024-25).

Winchelsea School versus The Lion Works School compared on inspection, results, pupils and attendance.
Measure	PooleWinchelsea School	PooleThe Lion Works School	England average
Overview
Our score	Not scored	Not scored
Local ranking	Not ranked	Not ranked
Inspection	Ofsted: Strong
School type	Community special school	Other independent special school
Age range	4-19	11-18
Gender	Mixed	Mixed
Pupils on roll	248	55
Capacity	277	70
Location	Poole, BH12 4LL	Poole, BH12 5AD
GCSE results
Attainment 8	0.1	3.3 Stronger figure	46.0
Grade 5+ in English & maths	0.0%	0.0%	45.4%
Grade 4+ in English & maths	0.0%	0.0%	64.8%
Entering EBacc	0.0%	0.0%	40.5%
EBacc average point score	0.00	0.17 Stronger figure	4.09
Cohort	31	7
Pupils
Pupils in the census	235	42
Free school meals (ever 6)	43.4%	0.0%
English as an additional language	14.0%	Not reported
SEN support	0.0%	0.0%
SEN with an EHC plan	100.0%	100.0%
Attendance
Overall absence	9.6%	Not reported	6.2%
Persistent absence	27.4%	Not reported	15.8%

marks the stronger figure on measures with a clear direction. Rows describing a school's intake, such as free school meals, English as an additional language and SEN, carry no marker: they describe who a school serves, not how well it serves them.

Historical trends

Each solid line is one school; the dashed line is the national average.

GCSE Attainment 8

Pupils on roll

Ethnicity over time

One panel per school: the largest groups across this comparison, one colour per group, on a shared scale.