Special school · Hertfordshire
Batchwood School
- Special
- Ages 11–16
- Term dates set by the council
Term dates
Hertfordshire council sets the term dates for this school. See all Hertfordshire dates, taken from the council's own page.
2026/27
2027/28
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Admissions
Places at special schools are usually arranged through an education, health and care (EHC) plan, agreed with the council.
Ofsted inspection
Report card, 14 April 2026. Ofsted now grades each area separately, from exceptional to urgent improvement, with no single overall grade.
- Inclusion
- Expected standard
- Curriculum and teaching
- Needs attention
- Achievement
- Expected standard
- Attendance and behaviour
- Expected standard
- Personal development and wellbeing
- Expected standard
- Leadership and governance
- Expected standard
Safeguarding standards: met.
Previous inspection, 1 February 2022. Overall: Good
From Ofsted's published inspection data (Open Government Licence). Report cards and older grades use different scales, so they can't be compared directly.
About and location
- Type
- Special school
- Phase
- Special
- Ages
- 11–16
- Pupils
- 111 (capacity 101)
- Gender
- Mixed
- Phone
- 01727868021
- Address
- Townsend Drive, St Albans, AL3 5RP
- Website
- batchwood.herts.sch.uk
School details from the Department for Education's register of schools (Open Government Licence). Report a correction.