Alderman Knight School

Type Special School
Age Range 7-19
Religion Does not apply
Address Ashchurch Road
Tewkesbury
Gloucestershire
GL20 8JJ
Phone 01684295639
Reference Number 115825

Description

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Alderman Knight School is a mixed special education institution located in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, UK, at the address GL20 8JJ. This community school, managed by Gloucestershire County Council, lies within a rich historical context, named after a former Mayor of Tewkesbury, Cameron Knight. The school accommodates students from the age of 7 to 19, with a focus on accepting pupils with moderate learning difficulties, complex needs, and autistic spectrum disorders.

The school attracts students primarily from Tewkesbury and North Cotswolds, but it also supports pupils from other areas as needed. Despite past attempts to close the school by the county council between 2004 and 2006, Alderman Knight remains open, maintaining a record of three outstanding ratings from Ofsted. The current head teacher is Clare Steel.

The school is situated at coordinates 51°59′47″N 2°07′40″W. Alderman Knight School offers a website for more information found at http://www.aldermanknight.gloucs.sch.uk.

General Makeup

Number of pupils 221
Boy/Girl ratio Boys: 74.21%
Girls: 25.79%

Year Groups

Year Number of pupils
3 3
4 3
5 11
6 24
7 36
8 28
9 31
10 30
11 32
12 14
13 7

Ofsted Rating Outstanding
Last Inspection Date 2019-03-12
Date Description Report
2019-01-29 Full inspection: Full inspection:
2014-04-01 Full inspection: Full inspection:
2010-12-07 Full inspection: Full inspection:
2009-06-08 Curriculum and development visit Curriculum and development visit
2007-11-07 Full inspection: Full inspection:
2003-03-31 Full inspection Full inspection

Attainment 8 Score

Attaimenment 8 is a measure of a pupil's average grade across a set of 8 subjects. The 8 subjects which make up Attainment 8 are:

  • English
  • Maths
  • 3 subjects from qualifications that count towards the English Baccalaureate (EBacc), like sciences, language and history
  • 3 more GCSE qualifications (including EBacc subjects) or technical awards from a list approved by the Department for Education
Each grade a pupil gets is assigned a point score from 9 (the highest) to 1 (the lowest). These scores are added up, with English and maths counted twice.

School Score Percentile (local) Percentile (nationwide)
8.1 Upgrade Upgrade

GCSE Results

Metric School Score Percentile (local) Percentile (nationwide)
Grade 5 or above in English and maths 3% Upgrade Upgrade
5 or more GCSEs at grade 9-4 (or A-C) 3% Upgrade Upgrade

Progress 8 Score

A progress score is a way to measure how well a student progressed in comparison to other students of a similar starting ability. A score of zero means would mean that a student made the same progress as others that had a similar starting a ability. A positive score would mean that the student made more progress than other students of similar starting ability. The scores below are for the whole school so is the average progress score across all students.

School Score Percentile (loc) Percentile (nationwide)
-1.16 Upgrade Upgrade

Attainment 8 Score

Attaimenment 8 is a measure of a pupil's average grade across a set of 8 subjects. The 8 subjects which make up Attainment 8 are:

GCSE Results

Progress 8 Score

A progress score is a way to measure how well a student progressed in comparison to other students of a similar starting ability. A score of zero means would mean that a student made the same progress as others that had a similar starting a ability. A positive score would mean that the student made more progress than other students of similar starting ability. The scores below are for the whole school so is the average progress score across all students.

How many students meet the standards

Reading, Writing & Maths School Score Percentile (local) Percentile (nationwide)
Pupils meeting the expected standard 0% Upgrade Upgrade
Pupils meeting a higher standard 0% Upgrade Upgrade

Average Scaled Score

Results are converted into scaled scores to allow accurate comparisons of performance over time even if the difficulty of the test varies over time. Scaled scores range from 80 to 120.

Subject School Percentile (local) Percentile (nationwide)
Reading 103 Upgrade Upgrade
Maths 98 Upgrade Upgrade

Progress Scores

A progress score is a way to measure how well a student progressed in comparison to other students of a similar starting ability. A score of zero means would mean that a student made the same progress as others that had a similar starting a ability. A positive score would mean that the student made more progress than other students of similar starting ability. The scores below are for the whole school so is the average progress score across all students.

Metric School Score Percentile (local) Percentile (nationwide)
Reading -11.3 Upgrade Upgrade
Writing -10 Upgrade Upgrade
Maths -10.9 Upgrade Upgrade

How many students meet the standards

Average Scaled Score

Results are converted into scaled scores to allow accurate comparisons of performance over time even if the difficulty of the test varies over time. Scaled scores range from 80 to 120.

Progress Scores

A progress score is a way to measure how well a student progressed in comparison to other students of a similar starting ability. A score of zero means would mean that a student made the same progress as others that had a similar starting a ability. A positive score would mean that the student made more progress than other students of similar starting ability. The scores below are for the whole school so is the average progress score across all students.

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GCSE Attainment

Attainment 8 score percentile

Students getting 5 or more GCSE's at grade 9-4 (A-C)

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