Blackmarston School
Special / other · Hereford · HR2 7NX
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.
Ofsted placed this school in a statutory category of concern, serious weaknesses, at the inspection of 20 June 2023. It stands until a later inspection lifts it.
Inspected 20 June 2023
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105 pupils · 106% of 99 capacity (over capacity)
- School type
- Academy special sponsor led
- Age range
- 2–11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Free school meals
- 45.7% of pupils
- Nursery
- Yes
- URN
- 151214
Key stage 2 results (2024/2025)
No figure is published for reaching the expected standard in reading, writing and maths. Key stage 2 tests measure the age-11 curriculum; most pupils at special schools are assessed under other frameworks, so 97% of special schools publish 0% here.
Source: DfE performance tables 2024/2025. “Suppressed” means the DfE withholds figures for very small cohorts. National averages are not shown here. The England figures are dominated by mainstream schools, and pupils at a special school are working towards outcomes those measures were not designed to capture, so the comparison would mislead more than it tells you.
Special educational needs
Needs this school records that it caters for, in the order it lists them.
- Autistic Spectrum Disorder
- Severe Learning Difficulty
- Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulty
Provision type: SEN unit.
Attendance (2025/26 autumn term)
Autumn-term absence, DfE pupil absence data. Lower is better.
Staffing
Full-time-equivalent, 2025/26.
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.
The area around the school
- Child poverty (IDACI)
- 1/10among the most deprived tenth of England
- Overall deprivation (IMD)
- 2/10among the most deprived fifth of England
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (MHCLG), decile of the small area the school stands in: 1 is the most deprived tenth of England, 10 the least. IDACI counts only children in low-income families, which is the measure closest to the intake a school is likely to draw on.
| Census 2021 | This area | England |
|---|---|---|
| Adults with a degree or higher | 19% | 33.9% |
| Adults with no qualifications | 29.2% | 18.1% |
| In managerial or professional work | 15.6% | 33.2% |
| Households deprived in two or more ways | 30.2% | 18.1% |
| Residents in very good health | 43% | 48.5% |
| Homes owned by the occupier | 42.3% | 62.3% |
| Social housing | 42.3% | 17.1% |
| Privately rented | 15.3% | 20.5% |
| Detached houses | 6.8% | 22.9% |
| Flats | 20.4% | 22.2% |
| Homes with four or more bedrooms | 4.7% | 21.1% |
| Households with no car or van | 31.3% | 23.5% |
Census 2021 (ONS) for statistical area E01014071 (a lower layer super output area), the neighbourhood of roughly 1,128 adults that the school stands in. These figures describe the area, not the pupils. Children travel in from further away, and for selective, faith and some other schools usually much further. Open Government Licence v3.0.
What homes cost nearby
- Median sale price
- £214,000345 sales within 1 km, January 2024 to July 2026
- Typical range
- £180,000–£260,000the middle half of sales
- England median
- £300,000all sales over the same period
Homes around this school are cheaper than most school neighbourhoods in England, comparing the median within 1 km across every state school.
Every residential sale registered with HM Land Registry within 1 km of the school (straight line) since January 2024, market sales of houses and flats only. A sale is dated by completion and registered weeks later, so the most recent months are incomplete. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Postcodes located with OS Code-Point Open: contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026; contains Royal Mail data © Royal Mail copyright and database right 2026; contains National Statistics data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.
Roads around the school
- Child pedestrian casualties
- 1an urban school averages 2.0
- Collisions at school-run times
- 5an urban school averages 5.8
- All reported collisions
- 19an urban school averages 30.6
- Of those, serious or fatal
- 3an urban school averages 6.1
Every collision reported to the police within 500 m of the school in 2021–2025, from the Department for Transport's road casualty statistics (STATS19). "Child pedestrians" counts casualties aged under 16 on foot; "school-run times" means weekdays 07:30–09:00 and 15:00–16:30 outside August. A high count usually says the school sits on or near a busy road, not that the school is unsafe: counts rise with traffic and with how built-up an area is, which is why the comparison is with other urban schools. Distances are straight-line from the school's recorded position. Open Government Licence v3.0.