Non-maintained special school · Essex
St John's RC School (Essex)
- Special
- Ages 5–19
- Sixth form
Term dates
Non-maintained special schools set their own term dates. See the school's website.
Admissions
Places at special schools are usually arranged through an education, health and care (EHC) plan, agreed with the council.
Ofsted inspection
Report card, 21 April 2026. Ofsted now grades each area separately, from exceptional to urgent improvement, with no single overall grade.
- Inclusion
- Expected standard
- Curriculum and teaching
- Expected standard
- Achievement
- Expected standard
- Attendance and behaviour
- Strong standard
- Personal development and wellbeing
- Strong standard
- Sixth form
- Expected standard
- Leadership and governance
- Expected standard
Safeguarding standards: met.
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
- Non-maintained special school
- Phase
- Special
- Ages
- 5–19
- Pupils
- 102 (capacity 100)
- Gender
- Mixed
- Phone
- 02085041818
- Address
- Turpins Lane, Woodford Bridge, IG8 8AX
- Website
- stjohnsrcschool.co.uk
School details from the Department for Education's register of schools (Open Government Licence). Report a correction.