The Woodlands
Special / other · Ferryhill · DL17 8AN
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 30 April 2025
Read the Ofsted report ↗At a glance
330 pupils · 100% of 100 capacity
- School type
- Pupil referral unit
- Age range
- 6–16
- Gender
- Mixed
- Free school meals
- 80.6% of pupils
- English as additional language
- 0% of pupils
- SEN support
- 12.3% of pupils
- EHC plan
- 1.3% of pupils
- URN
- 113992
Staffing
Full-time-equivalent, 2025/26.
Teacher retention (2024/25)
96% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 2% moved to another state school · 2% left the state-funded sector
School Workforce Census, DfE. The ratio counts full-time-equivalent qualified teachers; retention follows teachers in post one November to the next. Open Government Licence v3.0.
Spending per pupil
Total expenditure ÷ pupils, council-maintained school finance return (DfE Schools Financial Benchmarking, latest year). Higher spending is not a measure of quality. It often reflects greater pupil need or a smaller school. Open Government Licence v3.0.
Inspection history since 2015
- 29 April 2025: Standards maintained
- 26 February 2020: Section 8 inspections of good and non-exempt outstanding schools
- 15 June 2016: Good
Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.