Pupil referral unit · Essex
Poplar Adolescent Unit
- Alternative provision
- Ages 11–18
- Term dates set by the council
Term dates
Essex council sets the term dates for this school. See all Essex dates, taken from the council's own page.
2026/27
2027/28
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Admissions
Places for Year 7 are applied for through your home council, not the school.
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How places are given: there's no entrance test. When there are more applicants than places, places usually go by criteria such as siblings, distance or catchment area. Check the council's or school's admissions policy for the exact rules.
Ofsted inspection
Latest graded inspection, 24 June 2025. No overall grade was given (Ofsted stopped giving one in September 2024).
- Quality of education
- Good
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Outstanding
- Personal development
- Good
- Leadership and management
- Good
- Sixth form
- 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
- Pupil referral unit
- Phase
- Alternative provision
- Ages
- 11–18
- Pupils
- 0 (capacity 16)
- Gender
- Mixed
- Phone
- 01702538138
- Address
- Rochford Community Hospital, Union Lane, Rochford, SS4 1RB
School details from the Department for Education's register of schools (Open Government Licence). Report a correction.