Applebee Wood School
State-Funded School
Not published
No overall grade
About the School
Applebee Wood School is a state-funded special for pupils aged 4–16, located in Lancashire, North West.
It currently serves 179 pupils.
Ofsted Rating
Yes
2025
Subject Areas
Leadership &management
Inadequate
Quality ofeducation
Inadequate
Personaldevelopment
Requires improvement
Behaviour &attitudes
Good
Academic Performance
No key stage 2 or 4 results are published for this school.
Ethnicity
Pupils
Total Pupils
74%Boys
26%GirlsPupil Characteristics
DfE school census, January 2026.
Key Information
- Phase
- Special
- Age range
- 4 – 16
- Total pupils
- 179
Inspection history
Ofsted has published one graded inspection for this school. Ungraded and monitoring visits are not shown.
| Report published | Overall | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 Jan 2025 | Inadequate | Inadequate | Requires improvement | Good | Not judged |
A grey dot means Ofsted did not report that judgement in the inspection of the day — the sub-judgements shown here were introduced with the 2019 framework.
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