St Mary's School and 6th Form College
Special / other · Bexhill on Sea · TN40 2LU
Graded inspection under the pre-November 2025 system
This is an overall-effectiveness grade from the previous inspection framework. The school has not yet had a report-card inspection.
Inspected 22 March 2022
Read the Ofsted report ↗At a glance
221 pupils · 88% of 250 capacity
- School type
- Non-maintained special school
- Age range
- 5–19
- Gender
- Mixed
- Religious character
- Inter- / non- denominational
- Free school meals
- 38.7% of pupils
- English as additional language
- 3.4% of pupils
- SEN support
- 0% of pupils
- EHC plan
- 100% of pupils
- Sixth form
- Yes
- Website
- www.stmarysbexhill.org
- URN
- 133653
GCSE results (2024/2025)
13 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
- 22 March 2022: Good
- 1 December 2021: Taking effective action towards the removal of serious weaknesses designation
- 27 January 2021: Schools with Serious Weaknesses Visit 2
- 11 July 2019: Taking effective action towards the removal of serious weaknesses designation
- 12 February 2019: Inadequate
- 16 January 2018: Good
- 20 January 2016: Requires improvement
- 3 November 2015: 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.