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Springwater Academy

  • Special
  • Academy special converter
  • Ages 2 to 19

URN 151754 · North Yorkshire · THE ASCENT ACADEMIES' TRUST

In North Yorkshire

Inspection

Ofsted management information, as at 30 September 2026.

Latest graded inspection

14 June 2022

Overall effectiveness
Good

Quality of education
Good
Behaviour and attitudes
Outstanding
Personal development
Outstanding
Leadership and management
Outstanding
Sixth form provision
Outstanding
Safeguarding is effective
Yes

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

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.

Teachers

Against North Yorkshire and England, special schools.

Pupils per qualified teacher

2025/26

9.5

North Yorkshire
8.0
England
7.3

2.2 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

North Yorkshire
5.9 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
145
Capacity
155
Type
Academy special converter
Phase
Special
Age range
2 to 19
Sixth form
Has a sixth form
Gender
Mixed
Trust
THE ASCENT ACADEMIES' TRUST
Opened
1 November 2025
Setting
Urban: Nearer to a major town or city
Constituency
Harrogate and Knaresborough
Special educational needs provision
OTH - Other Difficulty/Disability; SLCN - Speech, language and Communication; ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder; MSI - Multi-Sensory Impairment; PD - Physical Disability; SLD - Severe Learning Difficulty; PMLD - Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulty
Deprivation of the area (IDACI)
Decile 7 of 10 (1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods)

Address: High Street, Starbeck, Harrogate, North Yorkshire, HG2 7LW

Website: www.springwater.n-yorks.sch.uk/

Telephone: 01423883214

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Sources and corrections

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Springwater Academy, URN 151754. https://joshuamangas.com/intel/school/151754/. Data release 20 October 2026. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.