East Sussex Skills Academy
Alternative provision school · Free schools alternative provision · ages 11 to 16 · Mixed
Down Road, Bexhill-on-Sea, TN39 4HS
- Pupils–
- Ages11 to 16
- Latest Ofsted4 Feb 2025
- FundingState-funded
Ofsted inspections
Shown exactly as Ofsted published them, each with its own date.
Graded inspection (no overall grade) · 4 Feb 2025
This inspection was of a predecessor school (The Workplace), before it reopened under its current reference number. Ofsted says grades of a predecessor school can’t, in law, transfer to the new one.
Category of concern: Serious weaknesses. What this means.
No overall grade: from September 2024 to November 2025 Ofsted gave sub-grades only (recorded as “Not judged”).
- Quality of educationRequires improvement
- Behaviour and attitudesRequires improvement
- Personal developmentRequires improvement
- Leadership and managementInadequate
- Safeguarding is effectiveNo
Grades run from Outstanding to Inadequate (four steps, left to right).
S8 No Formal Designation Visit · report published 30 Apr 2025
Read the full reports on Ofsted’s website (opens in a new tab) — they explain the reasons behind each grade.
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
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
- LONDON SOUTH EAST ACADEMIES TRUST
- Sponsor
- Bromley College of Further and Higher Education
- Boys, girls or mixed
- Mixed
- Religious character
- Does not apply
- Nursery
- No Nursery Classes
- Sixth form
- Does not have a sixth form
- Opened
- 1 April 2026
- Local authority
- East Sussex
- Parliamentary constituency
- Bexhill and Battle
- URN
- 152509 (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).
Admissions
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How school admissions work: deadlines, oversubscription and appeals.