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The Bridge Short Stay School

Alternative provision school · Pupil referral unit · ages 7 to 16 · Mixed

Appleton Drive, Ellesmere Port, CH65 7EP

  • Pupils59
  • Ages7 to 16
  • Latest Ofsted24 May 2024
  • FundingState-funded
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Ofsted inspections

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Ungraded inspection · 24 May 2024

Outcome: School remains Good. An ungraded inspection checks whether a school is still at the standard of its last graded inspection; it doesn’t give new grades.

Ungraded inspection · report published 7 Jul 2024

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Source: Ofsted, state-funded school inspections and outcomes: management information (latest inspections as at 30 September 2026). Newer inspections may be on Ofsted’s website. How Ofsted inspections work.

Results

No results for this school are in the performance tables we use. Results are published for schools with pupils at the end of Year 6, Year 11 or 16 to 18 study, and figures are hidden when very few pupils are involved.

Source: Department for Education, school performance tables. England and local authority figures are the DfE’s own, for the same year.

Pupils and attendance

Pupils
59 (capacity 50)
24 girls, 35 boys
Eligible for free school meals
72.9% (currently eligible, census of January 2026)

Pupils with SEN support

Special educational needs, without an education, health and care (EHC) plan.

2024/25

This school
86.4%

Pupils with an EHC plan

An education, health and care plan sets out the support a child must get.

2024/25

This school
13.6%

Eligible for free school meals at any time in the last 6 years

2024/25

This school
69.5%

First language not English

This is not a measure of how well pupils speak English.

2024/25

This school
0%

Sources: Get Information about Schools; DfE school census and absence statistics via the performance tables. What these figures mean.

About the school

Type
Pupil referral unit (Local authority maintained schools)
Boys, girls or mixed
Mixed
Religious character
Does not apply
Opened
31 August 2012
Local authority
Cheshire West and Chester
Parliamentary constituency
Ellesmere Port and Bromborough
URN
138450 (the DfE’s reference number for the school)

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