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Blackmarston School

  • Special
  • Academy special sponsor led
  • Ages 2 to 11

URN 151214 · Herefordshire · ACCORDIA ACADEMIES TRUST

In Herefordshire

Inspection

Ofsted management information, as at 30 September 2026.

Latest graded inspection

20 June 2023

Overall effectiveness
Inadequate

Ofsted category: Serious weaknesses.

Quality of education
Requires improvement
Behaviour and attitudes
Requires improvement
Personal development
Requires improvement
Leadership and management
Inadequate
Early years provision
Requires improvement
Safeguarding is effective
Yes

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

Section 8 inspection of good and outstanding schools

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.

Attendance

Against Herefordshire and England, special schools.

Overall absence

2024/25

5.9%

Herefordshire
11.6%
England
12.8%

6.9 percentage points lower than England.

Sessions missed for any reason, as a share of all possible sessions in the school year. Source: Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics, Pupil absence in schools in England, 2024/25.

Persistent absence

2024/25

21.3%

Herefordshire
35.3%
England
35.3%

14.0 percentage points lower than England.

Pupils who missed 10% or more of their possible sessions, as a share of pupils. Source: Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics, Pupil absence in schools in England, 2024/25.

Severe absence

2024/25

0.0%

Herefordshire
3.8%
England
6.9%

6.9 percentage points lower than England.

Pupils who missed 50% or more of their possible sessions, as a share of pupils. Source: Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics, Pupil absence in schools in England, 2024/25.

Key stage 2 results

Against Herefordshire and England, primary schools.

Reading, writing and maths: expected standard

2024/25

Not publishedNot applicable to this school

Not compared with mainstream schools.

Pupils at the end of key stage 2 who met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths combined. Source: Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics, Key stage 2 attainment, 2024/25.

Reading, writing and maths: higher standard

2024/25

Not publishedNot applicable to this school

Not compared with mainstream schools.

Pupils at the end of key stage 2 who met the higher standard in reading, writing and maths combined. Source: Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics, Key stage 2 attainment, 2024/25.

Teachers

Against Herefordshire and England, special schools.

Pupils per qualified teacher

2025/26

7.4

Herefordshire
7.3
England
7.3

0.1 higher 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

Herefordshire
4.6 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
105
Capacity
99
Type
Academy special sponsor led
Phase
Special
Age range
2 to 11
Gender
Mixed
Trust
ACCORDIA ACADEMIES TRUST
Opened
1 March 2025
Setting
Urban: Further from a major town or city
Constituency
Hereford and South Herefordshire
Special educational needs provision
ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder; SLD - Severe Learning Difficulty; PMLD - Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulty
Resourced provision
SEN unit
Deprivation of the area (IDACI)
Decile 1 of 10 (1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods)

Address: Honddu Close, Hereford, Herefordshire, HR2 7NX

Telephone: 01432272376

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Sources and corrections

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