All-through
Langside School
Langside Avenue, Parkstone, Poole, BH12 5BN
Key facts
- Phase
- All-through
- Type
- Non-maintained special school
- Ages
- 2 to 19
- Intake
- Mixed
- Pupils
- 32 of 44 places
- Local authority
- Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
- Sixth form
- Yes
- Nursery
- Yes
- SEN provision
- SpLD - Specific Learning Difficulty, PD - Physical Disability, MLD - Moderate Learning Difficulty, SLD - Severe Learning Difficulty, PMLD - Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulty
Ofsted
Last inspected May 2025
Standards maintained
Still graded as at
Good
- Behaviour and attitudesOutstanding
- Early yearsGood
- Leadership and governanceGood
- Personal developmentOutstanding
- Quality of educationGood
- Sixth formGood
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)Earlier inspections1
February 2020
Previous framework
Good
Safeguarding: met
- Behaviour and attitudesOutstanding
- Early yearsGood
- Leadership and governanceGood
- Personal developmentOutstanding
- Quality of educationGood
- Sixth formGood
Langside Avenue, Parkstone, Poole, BH12 5BN
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.
Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole 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
- Principal
- Jonathan Seaward
- Address
- Langside Avenue, Parkstone, Poole, BH12 5BN
- Telephone
- 01202518635