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Alternative provision school · Free schools alternative provision · ages 14 to 19 · Mixed

City Road, London, EC1V 1JX

  • Pupils15
  • Ages14 to 19
  • Latest Ofsted22 May 2024
  • FundingState-funded
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Ofsted inspections

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Graded inspection · 22 May 2024

Overall effectiveness: Good

  • Quality of educationGood
  • Behaviour and attitudesGood
  • Personal developmentGood
  • Leadership and managementGood
  • Sixth form provisionGood
  • Safeguarding is effectiveYes

Grades run from Outstanding to Inadequate (four steps, left to right).

S5 Inspection · report published 26 Jun 2024

Ungraded inspection · 14 Dec 2022

Outcome: School remains Good (Concerns) - S5 Next. 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 6 Feb 2023

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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
15 (capacity 110)
5 girls, 10 boys
Eligible for free school meals
100% (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
13.3%

Pupils with an EHC plan

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

2024/25

This school
86.7%

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

2024/25

This school
69.2%

First language not English

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

2024/25

This school
16.7%

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

About the school

Type
Free schools alternative provision (Free Schools)
Trust
THE BECKMEAD TRUST
Boys, girls or mixed
Mixed
Nursery
No Nursery Classes
Sixth form
Has a sixth form
Special needs catered for
ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder; SEMH - Social, Emotional and Mental Health; MLD - Moderate Learning Difficulty
Opened
1 September 2014
Local authority
Camden
Parliamentary constituency
Islington South and Finsbury
URN
141164 (the DfE’s reference number for the school)

Source: Get Information about Schools (Department for Education). See the full record (opens in a new tab).

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