The Beacon College
- Special
- Free schools special
- Ages 16 to 19
URN 148636 · Herefordshire · ACCORDIA ACADEMIES TRUST
Inspection
Ofsted management information, as at 30 September 2026.
Latest graded inspection
16 April 2024Overall effectiveness
Outstanding
- Quality of education
- Outstanding
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Outstanding
- Personal development
- Outstanding
- Leadership and management
- Outstanding
- Safeguarding is effective
- Yes
Full inspection (section 5)
Under the earlier framework, inspections gave an overall effectiveness grade.
Read the reports on Ofsted’s website. Source: Ofsted, State-funded school inspections and outcomes: management information.
Suspensions and permanent exclusions
Against Herefordshire and England, special schools.
Suspensions per 100 pupils
2024/250.00
- Herefordshire
- 8.13
- England
- 12.32
12.32 lower than England.
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| Year | This school | Herefordshire | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017/18 | Not published | 27.71 | 12.34 |
| 2018/19 | Not published | 26.04 | 11.32 |
| 2019/20 | Not published | 11.33 | 7.76 |
| 2020/21 | Not published | 1.89 | 7.29 |
| 2021/22 | 0.00 | 7.63 | 9.60 |
| 2022/23 | 0.00 | 8.63 | 10.99 |
| 2023/24 | 4.65 | 14.43 | 12.62 |
| 2024/25 | 0.00 | 8.13 | 12.32 |
Suspensions in the school year for every 100 pupils on roll. One pupil can be suspended more than once. Source: Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics, Suspensions and permanent exclusions in England, 2024/25.
Permanent exclusions per 100 pupils
2024/250.00
- Herefordshire
- 0.00
- England
- 0.08
0.08 lower than England.
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| Year | This school | Herefordshire | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017/18 | Not published | 0.00 | 0.07 |
| 2018/19 | Not published | 0.00 | 0.06 |
| 2019/20 | Not published | 0.28 | 0.04 |
| 2020/21 | Not published | 0.00 | 0.03 |
| 2021/22 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.05 |
| 2022/23 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.08 |
| 2023/24 | 0.00 | 0.51 | 0.08 |
| 2024/25 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.08 |
Permanent exclusions in the school year for every 100 pupils on roll. Source: Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics, Suspensions and permanent exclusions in England, 2024/25.
Pupils
Against Herefordshire and England, special schools.
Eligible for free school meals
2024/2527.9%
- Herefordshire
- 47.3%
- England
- 48.8%
20.9 percentage points lower than England.
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| Year | This school | Herefordshire | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021/22 | 24.4% | 42.6% | 44.4% |
| 2022/23 | 30.2% | 47.0% | 45.6% |
| 2023/24 | 25.6% | 45.6% | 47.1% |
| 2024/25 | 27.9% | 47.3% | 48.8% |
Pupils known to be eligible for free school meals on census day in January. Source: Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics, Schools, pupils and their characteristics, 2024/25.
SEN support
2024/250.0%
- Herefordshire
- 0.2%
- England
- 0.5%
0.5 percentage points lower than England.
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| Year | This school | Herefordshire | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021/22 | 0.0% | 1.6% | 0.9% |
| 2022/23 | 0.0% | 1.0% | 0.8% |
| 2023/24 | 0.0% | 0.3% | 0.7% |
| 2024/25 | 0.0% | 0.2% | 0.5% |
Pupils receiving special educational needs support without an education, health and care plan. Source: Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics, Schools, pupils and their characteristics, 2024/25.
Education, health and care plan
2024/25100.0%
- Herefordshire
- 99.8%
- England
- 99.5%
0.5 percentage points higher than England.
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| Year | This school | Herefordshire | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021/22 | 100.0% | 98.4% | 99.1% |
| 2022/23 | 100.0% | 99.0% | 99.2% |
| 2023/24 | 100.0% | 99.7% | 99.3% |
| 2024/25 | 100.0% | 99.8% | 99.5% |
Pupils with an education, health and care plan. Source: Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics, Schools, pupils and their characteristics, 2024/25.
First language other than English
2024/254.7%
- Herefordshire
- 7.6%
- England
- 14.4%
9.7 percentage points lower than England.
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| Year | This school | Herefordshire | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021/22 | 2.2% | 5.5% | 14.5% |
| 2022/23 | 4.7% | 6.1% | 14.4% |
| 2023/24 | 7.0% | 6.3% | 14.4% |
| 2024/25 | 4.7% | 7.6% | 14.4% |
Pupils whose first language is known or believed to be other than English. Source: Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics, Schools, pupils and their characteristics, 2024/25.
Teachers
Against Herefordshire and England, special schools.
Pupils per qualified teacher
2025/267.9
- Herefordshire
- 7.3
- England
- 7.3
0.6 higher than England.
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| Year | This school | Herefordshire | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017/18 | Not published | 7.4 | 6.7 |
| 2018/19 | Not published | 7.1 | 6.8 |
| 2019/20 | Not published | 6.9 | 7.0 |
| 2020/21 | Not published | 7.3 | 6.8 |
| 2021/22 | 8.1 | 7.3 | 6.9 |
| 2022/23 | 8.6 | 6.8 | 7.0 |
| 2023/24 | 8.4 | 7.4 | 7.1 |
| 2024/25 | 5.4 | 6.9 | 7.3 |
| 2025/26 | 7.9 | 7.3 | 7.3 |
Full-time equivalent pupils for each full-time equivalent qualified teacher. Source: Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics, School workforce in England, 2025/26.
Teacher sickness absence
2024/256.0 days
- Herefordshire
- 4.6 days
- England
- 5.0 days
1.0 days higher than England.
Compared with all state-funded schools: DfE publishes this measure for all schools, not by phase.
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| Year | This school | Herefordshire | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017/18 | Not published | 4.8 days | 4.0 days |
| 2018/19 | Not published | 4.3 days | 4.0 days |
| 2019/20 | Not published | Not published | Not published |
| 2020/21 | Not published | 3.4 days | 3.9 days |
| 2021/22 | Not published | 5.7 days | 6.3 days |
| 2022/23 | 7.1 days | 4.7 days | 5.2 days |
| 2023/24 | 6.8 days | 5.1 days | 5.3 days |
| 2024/25 | 6.0 days | 4.6 days | 5.0 days |
Days lost to sickness absence in the school year, averaged across all teachers. Source: Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics, School workforce in England, 2024/25.
Finance
Academies report their accounts as part of their trust, so DfE publishes no school-level balance for this school. The trust’s figures are in DfE’s Financial Benchmarking and Insights Tool.
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About the school
- Pupils on roll
- 39
- Capacity
- 60
- Type
- Free schools special
- Phase
- Special
- Age range
- 16 to 19
- Sixth form
- Has a sixth form
- Admissions
- Non-selective
- Gender
- Mixed
- Trust
- ACCORDIA ACADEMIES TRUST
- Opened
- 1 September 2021
- Setting
- Urban: Further from a major town or city
- Constituency
- Hereford and South Herefordshire
- Deprivation of the area (IDACI)
- Decile 4 of 10 (1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods)
Address: Eastnor Drive, Hereford, Herefordshire, HR1 1NZ
Website: www.thebeaconcollege.org/
Telephone: 01432353204
Sources and corrections
Every figure on this page names its source and period. This release was built on 20 October 2026.
- Department for Education: Get Information about Schools: establishment data (GIAS establishment extract 2026-10-20)
- Ofsted: State-funded school inspections and outcomes: management information (Latest inspections as at 2026-09-30; All inspections, 2018/19; All inspections, 2019/20; All inspections, 2020/21; All inspections, 2021/22; All inspections, 2022/23; All inspections, 2023/24; All inspections, 2024/25; All inspections, 2025/26)
- Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics: Pupil absence in schools in England (absence-3term-school, 2013/14 to 2024/25 [pinned data set id])
- Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics: Suspensions and permanent exclusions in England (exc-school, 2006/07 to 2024/25 [pinned data set id]; exc-ap-school, 2013/14 to 2024/25 [pinned data set id]; exc-geography, 2006/07 to 2024/25 [pinned data set id]; exc-ap-geography, 2013/14 to 2024/25 [pinned data set id])
- Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics: Key stage 2 attainment (ks2-school, 2022/23 to 2024/25 [pinned data set id]; ks2-geography, 2015/16 to 2025/26 [pinned data set id])
- Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics: Key stage 4 performance (ks4-school, 2023/24 to 2025/26 [pinned data set id]; ks4-geography, 2018/19 to 2025/26 [pinned data set id])
- Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics: Schools, pupils and their characteristics (School census, January 2022 (performance tables, 2021 to 2022); School census, January 2023 (performance tables, 2022 to 2023); School census, January 2024 (performance tables, 2023 to 2024); School census, January 2025 (performance tables, 2024 to 2025))
- Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics: School workforce in England (ptr-school, 2010/11 to 2025/26 [pinned data set id]; ptr-geography, 2010/11 to 2025/26 [pinned data set id]; sickness-school, 2009/10 to 2024/25 [pinned data set id]; sickness-geography, 2009/10 to 2024/25 [pinned data set id])
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: English indices of deprivation 2025: Income Deprivation Affecting Children Index (English indices of deprivation 2025, File 7 (2021 LSOAs))
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