Royal School for the Deaf Derby
Special / other · Derby · DE22 3BH
Ungraded inspection: no current grade
Ofsted's most recent visit was an ungraded inspection; its outcome was “Standards maintained”. Since September 2024 these outcomes no longer confirm a named grade, and the school's last graded inspection is too old to appear in Ofsted's current data file, so SchoolFacts shows no grade rather than guessing. Earlier grades are on the school's Ofsted report page.
Inspected 11 December 2024
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127 pupils · 90% of 141 capacity
- School type
- Non-maintained special school
- Age range
- 3–19
- Gender
- Mixed
- Free school meals
- 38.3% of pupils
- English as additional language
- 90% of pupils
- SEN support
- 2.7% of pupils
- EHC plan
- 97.3% of pupils
- Sixth form
- Yes
- Nursery
- Yes
- Website
- www.rsdd.org.uk
- URN
- 113044
GCSE results (2024/2025)
10 pupils at the end of key stage 4 in 2024/2025
Progress 8 is suspended nationally for 2024/25 and 2025/26. These cohorts sat no key stage 2 tests (COVID), so there is no baseline to measure progress from.
Source: DfE performance tables 2024/2025. “Suppressed” means the DfE withholds figures for very small cohorts.
Attendance (2025/26 autumn term)
Autumn-term absence, DfE pupil absence data. Lower is better.
Where pupils go after GCSEs
Destinations measured the year after leaving, latest DfE destination measures release.
Inspection history since 2015
- 10 December 2024: Standards maintained
- 26 March 2019: Good
- 2 March 2017: Taking effective action to tackle the areas requiring improvement
- 29 September 2016: Requires improvement
- 20 January 2016: Taking effective action towards the removal of special measures
Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.