All-through
Elms School
Elms Vale Road, Dover, CT17 9PS
Key facts
- Phase
- All-through
- Type
- Foundation special school
- Ages
- 5 to 16
- Intake
- Mixed
- Pupils
- 131 pupils
- Pupils per teacher
- 4.6
- Local authority
- Kent
- SEN provision
- ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder, SEMH - Social, Emotional and Mental Health, MLD - Moderate Learning Difficulty
- Trust
- Kent Special Educational Needs Trust (KSENT)
Staffing23/24
- Teachers (FTE)
- 29.2
- All staff (FTE)
- 89.0
- Pupils per adult
- 1.5
- Pupils
- 133
Staff are counted as full-time equivalents in the November school workforce census, so the pupil figure here is that census’s own and will differ a little from the roll above, which is counted in January.
Ofsted
Last inspected March 2023
Good
Still graded as at
Good
- Leadership and governanceGood
An ungraded inspection, which checks whether a school remains at its previous grade rather than re-grading it. Inspected under the previous framework, which used its own four-point scale. Ofsted now publishes a report card grading several areas separately, so these grades are not directly comparable with a recent inspection’s.
Read the full Ofsted report (opens in a new tab)GCSE results
0%
4.8
All published measures2024/2025
| Measure | Result |
|---|---|
| Average maths score | 85 |
| Average reading score | 93 |
| Reading, writing and maths | 0% |
| Working at a higher standard | 0% |
| Attainment 8 | 4.8 |
| EBacc average point score | 0.17 |
| Entered the EBacc | 0% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 0% |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 0% |
From the Department for Education. Measures are published per year and suppressed where a cohort is too small, so some schools show fewer. There are no results for 2019/20 or 2020/21, when exams and assessments were cancelled.
Results over time4 years
Each measure on its own scale, over every year we hold.
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 22/23 | 0% |
| 23/24 | 0% |
| 24/25 | 0% |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | 0% |
| 22/23 | 0% |
| 23/24 | 0% |
| 24/25 | 0% |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 22/23 | 90.0 |
| 23/24 | 94.0 |
| 24/25 | 93.0 |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | -2.86 |
| 22/23 | -1.89 |
| 23/24 | -1.41 |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 22/23 | 88.0 |
| 23/24 | 88.0 |
| 24/25 | 85.0 |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | 0.8 |
| 22/23 | 3.7 |
| 23/24 | 4.8 |
| 24/25 | 4.8 |
Elms Vale Road, Dover, CT17 9PS
Admissions
How to apply (opens in a new tab)
You apply through your council, not the school - even for academies and free schools. Applications close on 15 January, the year before starting.
Kent admissions (opens in a new tab)
The council publishes the oversubscription criteria and last year’s offer distances, which is the closest thing to knowing your chances.
If you are refused a place (opens in a new tab)
You can appeal, and you can join a waiting list at the same time. Accept whatever offer you get first - declining it can leave you with no place at all.
This school’s own admissions (opens in a new tab)
Schools that set their own criteria - faith schools, grammars, academies - publish them on their own site.
Contact
- Head Teacher
- John Dexter
- Address
- Elms Vale Road, Dover, CT17 9PS
- Telephone
- 01304201964