The Altus School
Special / other · Gloucester · GL4 0RQ
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 19 January 2022
Read the Ofsted report ↗At a glance
172 pupils · 100% of 90 capacity
- School type
- Pupil referral unit
- Age range
- 4–16
- Gender
- Mixed
- Free school meals
- 49.4% of pupils
- English as additional language
- 8.6% of pupils
- SEN support
- 41.7% of pupils
- EHC plan
- 14.9% of pupils
- Website
- www.thealtusschool.org.uk
- URN
- 135330
Staffing
Full-time-equivalent, 2025/26.
Teacher retention (2024/25)
92% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 8% 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
- 19 January 2022: Good
- 23 June 2021: Requires Improvement monitoring Visit 3
- 4 March 2021: Requires Improvement monitoring Visit 2
- 16 October 2019: Requires Improvement monitoring Visit 1
- 31 January 2018: Requires improvement
- 30 September 2016: Taking effective action to tackle the areas requiring improvement
Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.