About the School
Beacon Hill Academy is a state-funded special for pupils aged 3–19, located in Thurrock, East of England.
The school is rated Outstanding by Ofsted. It currently serves 77 pupils.
Ofsted Rating
9
2025
Subject Areas
Leadership &management
Outstanding
Ethnicity
Pupils
Total Pupils
Pupil Characteristics
DfE school census, January 2026.
Key Information
- Phase
- Special
- Age range
- 3 – 19
- Deprivation band
- Deprived
- Total pupils
- 77
- IDACI quintile
- 4 (Less deprived)
Inspection history
Ofsted has published one graded inspection for this school. The most recent ungraded inspection is shown below.
Standards maintained
Ungraded inspection on 26 February 2025. An ungraded inspection checks whether the existing grade still holds; it does not award a new one.
Read the inspection letter on Ofsted| Report published | Overall | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 Mar 2012 | Outstanding | Not reported in this inspection | Not reported in this inspection | Not reported in this inspection | Outstanding |
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.
Ofsted data as at 31 December 2024. A school may have been inspected since, or had an ungraded visit that does not change its grade — check Ofsted’s own record.
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