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Castle Wood Special School

Special school in Coventry. Requires improvement (Jul 2024).

Latest graded inspection

Inspected 2 July 2024, report published 8 September 2024, under the inspection system used from 2019 to 2025.

Requires improvement overall. Not yet good. Schools with this grade were normally inspected again within 30 months. 11% of schools whose latest graded inspection was under this system got Requires improvement.

Grades for each area
AreaGrade
Quality of educationRequires improvement
Behaviour and attitudesGood
Personal developmentGood
Leadership and managementRequires improvement
Early yearsRequires improvement
Safeguarding effectiveYes

These grades come from the system Ofsted replaced in November 2025. They stay on record until the school’s next inspection, when it gets a report card instead. More about the old grades.

Next inspection: around January 2027

The last inspection was in July 2024. Schools graded requires improvement were normally inspected again within 30 months. That’s within the next six months.

An estimate, not an Ofsted date. Ofsted doesn’t publish its schedule and gives schools about a day’s notice. The law says the next inspection must be by August 2029 at the latest, and Ofsted can visit sooner if it has concerns.

Nearby special schools

  1. 2.4 milesThe Warwickshire Academy

    Special, Coventry, Warwickshire

    No overall grade. Quality of education good (Mar 2025)

  2. 2.4 milesExhall Grange Specialist School

    Special, Coventry, Warwickshire

    School remains Good (Jul 2024)

  3. 2.8 milesRiverbank School

    Special, Coventry

    School remains Outstanding (Jun 2023)

  4. 3.6 milesTiverton School

    Special, Coventry

    School remains Good (Sep 2023)

  5. 3.7 milesKingsbury Academy

    Special, Coventry

    No overall grade. Quality of education outstanding (Dec 2024)

Ofsted data as at 30 September 2026, school details from Get Information about Schools, 26 October 2026.