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Birch Wood (Melton Area Special School)

  • Special
  • Academy special converter
  • Ages 4 to 19

URN 152239 · Leicestershire · DISCOVERY SCHOOLS ACADEMIES TRUST LTD

In Leicestershire

Inspection

Ofsted management information, as at 30 September 2026.

Ungraded inspection

17 April 2024

“School remains Good (Improving) - S5 Next”

“S5 Next” is Ofsted’s note that the school’s next inspection will be a graded one.

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.

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
246
Capacity
240
Type
Academy special converter
Phase
Special
Age range
4 to 19
Sixth form
Has a sixth form
Gender
Mixed
Trust
DISCOVERY SCHOOLS ACADEMIES TRUST LTD
Opened
1 December 2025
Setting
Urban: Further from a major town or city
Constituency
Melton and Syston
Special educational needs provision
SpLD - Specific Learning Difficulty; VI - Visual Impairment; OTH - Other Difficulty/Disability; HI - Hearing Impairment; SLCN - Speech, language and Communication; ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder; SEMH - Social, Emotional and Mental Health; MSI - Multi-Sensory Impairment; PD - Physical Disability; MLD - Moderate Learning Difficulty; 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: Grange Drive, Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, LE13 1HA

Website: www.birchwoodschool.co.uk

Telephone: 01664483340

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Sources and corrections

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Birch Wood (Melton Area Special School), URN 152239. https://joshuamangas.com/intel/school/152239/. Data release 20 October 2026. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.