The Tower School
- Type
- Other independent special school
- Location
- CM16 4BA
- Distance
- 7.1km away
Harlow Fields School and College
Tendring Road, Harlow, CM18 6RN
Ofsted: Requires improvement
Independent
Phase
214
Capacity
3-19
Age range
Mixed
Gender
Ofsted Inspection
Inspected 14 January 2025 — from September 2024 Ofsted no longer gave an overall grade, but each area below was judged in full
Safeguarding standards Met
- Quality of education
- Requires improvement
- Behaviour & attitudes
- Requires improvement
- Personal development
- Requires improvement
- Leadership & management
- Requires improvement
- Sixth form provision
- Requires improvement
Scale: Outstanding · Good · Requires improvement · Inadequate
Year:
GCSE Results
2024-25- Cohort Size
- 17
Destinations
After GCSE 2024-25
- Sustained education/employment
- 100.0%
- Continued in education
- 100.0%
- Apprenticeships
- 0.0%
- Employment
- 0.0%
- Not sustained
- 0.0%
Pupil Demographics
2024-25- Total Pupils
- 177
- Boys
- 155 (73%)
- Girls
- 58 (27%)
- Capacity
- 214 (100% full)
- SEND
- 100.0%
- FSM Eligible
- 31.0%
- EAL
- 11.9%
- SEN with EHC Plan
- 100.0%
- SEN Support
- 0.0%
- Pupil:Teacher Ratio
- 6.8:1
- Teachers (FTE)
- 26.0
- Budget per Pupil
- £29,771/yr
Attendance & Absence
2024-25- Overall Absence Rate
- 14.7% nat6.2%
- Persistent Absence
- 45.3% nat15.8%
Persistent absence: pupils missing 10%+ of sessions.
School Information
- Type
- Community special school
- Religious Character
- Does not apply
- Nursery
- Has Nursery Classes
- Sixth Form
- Has a sixth form
- Boarders
- No boarders
- Admissions
- Not applicable
Pupil Ethnicity
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- White British: 63.2%
- Black African: 11.7%
- White Other: 5.3%
- Mixed White & Asian: 3.5%
- Mixed Other: 3.5%
- Asian Pakistani: 3.5%
- Mixed White & Black Caribbean: 1.8%
- Mixed White & Black African: 1.8%
63.2%
White British
11.7%
Black African
5.3%
White Other
Historical Trends
Pupil Demographics
Attendance & Absence
Ethnicity Over Time
Contact & Location
Tendring Road
Harlow, East of England
Administrative
- URN
- 131838
- UKPRN
- 10015618
- Establishment No.
- 7070
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