Joshua Mangas

Brookfields School

  • Special
  • Academy special converter
  • Ages 3 to 19

URN 151045 · West Berkshire · ASCENDANCY PARTNERSHIP TRUST

In West Berkshire

Inspection

Ofsted management information, as at 30 September 2026.

Ungraded inspection

12 September 2019

“School remains Outstanding”

This inspection was of the predecessor school, before it converted or reopened under its current URN.

An ungraded inspection checks that the school is still at the standard of its last graded inspection. It does not give a new grade.

Read the reports on Ofsted’s website. Source: Ofsted, State-funded school inspections and outcomes: management information.

Key stage 4 results

Against West Berkshire and England, secondary schools.

Attainment 8

2025/26 (provisional)

Not publishedNot applicable to this school

Not compared with mainstream schools.

The average of pupils' points across eight GCSE-level qualifications, with English and maths counted twice. Source: Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics, Key stage 4 performance, 2025/26.

English and maths: grade 4 or above

2025/26 (provisional)

Not publishedNot applicable to this school

Not compared with mainstream schools.

Pupils at the end of key stage 4 with grade 4 or above in both English and maths. Source: Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics, Key stage 4 performance, 2025/26.

English and maths: grade 5 or above

2025/26 (provisional)

Not publishedNot applicable to this school

Not compared with mainstream schools.

Pupils at the end of key stage 4 with grade 5 or above in both English and maths. Source: Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics, Key stage 4 performance, 2025/26.

Teachers

Against West Berkshire and England, special schools.

Pupils per qualified teacher

2025/26

6.6

West Berkshire
5.5
England
7.3

0.7 lower than England.

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

2024/25

Not publishedNot published for this school

West Berkshire
4.7 days
England
5.0 days

Compared with all state-funded schools: DfE publishes this measure for all schools, not by phase.

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
224
Capacity
218
Type
Academy special converter
Phase
Special
Age range
3 to 19
Sixth form
Has a sixth form
Gender
Mixed
Trust
ASCENDANCY PARTNERSHIP TRUST
Opened
1 March 2025
Setting
Urban: Nearer to a major town or city
Constituency
Reading West and Mid Berkshire
Special educational needs provision
MLD - Moderate Learning Difficulty; SLD - Severe Learning Difficulty; PMLD - Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulty
Deprivation of the area (IDACI)
Decile 9 of 10 (1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods)

Address: Sage Road, Tilehurst, Reading, Berkshire, RG31 6SW

Website: www.brookfieldsschool.org

Telephone: 01189421382

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