| Exhall Grange School | |
|---|---|
| Address | |
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Easter Way , , CV7 9HP England | |
| Information | |
| Type | Community special school |
| Established | 15 January 1951 |
| Local authority | Warwickshire County Council |
| Department for Education URN | 125794 Tables |
| Ofsted | Reports |
| Head teacher | Helen Seickell |
| Staff | 130 (approx.) |
| Gender | Coeducational |
| Age | 2 to 19 |
| Enrolment | 250+ |
| Houses | Easter Edison Hawking Ingram |
| Colour(s) | Pink Green Orange Purple |
| Website | http://www.exhallgrange.org.uk/ |
Exhall Grange School is a special school located in Ash Green just outside Coventry in Warwickshire, England.[1] The school meets the needs of children and young people age from 2 to 19 years[2] with physical disability, visual impairment, complex medical needs, and social, communication and interaction difficulties.
Opened in 1951 as a school for visually impaired pupils, Exhall Grange was the first school to cater exclusively for partially sighted children. It later widened its remit to include pupils with other disabilities, and became a grammar school in 1960.
The school was a boarding school for many years, but significantly reduced its boarding facilities during the 1990s and 2000s as its role as a special school changed, and it is now a day school. In 2001 Exhall Grange began to share its campus with RNIB Pears Centre for Specialist Learning (then known as RNIB Rushton School and Children's Home), an RNIB school which relocated there from Northamptonshire. In 2018, the RNIB centre was closed by Ofsted after being rated inadequate, as well as being closed over claims of staff not being able to safeguard the children there properly. [3] In May 2022, a new school called the Warwickshire Academy was built in its place. [4] Zoe's Place Baby Hospice, a children's hospice also occupies part of the site. Exhall Grange was the first special school to be awarded science college status in 2003, and celebrated its Diamond & Platinum Jubilee years in 2011 and 2021 respectively, although no official celebrations were held for its platinum jubilee due to the COVID-19 pandemic and Britain being under its third national lockdown.
- ^ AA Street by Street. Coventry Rugby (2nd edition (May 2003) ed.). AA Publishing. 2 January 2004. pp. 12–13. ISBN 978-0-7495-3973-3.
- ^ "Really special". BBC News. 9 February 1999. Archived from the original on 5 March 2004. Retrieved 22 June 2009.
- ^ "Children's home and school for blind children to close in wake of damning Ofsted report". Coventry Live.
- ^ "New SEND school opens in Warwickshire!". Warickshire County Council.