Portal House School

Special school

Portal House School is a special school in Dover, for pupils aged 11 to 16. It had 80 pupils at the school census in January 2026.

Ofsted

Latest inspections as at 30 September 2026

Standards maintained, January 2025

Outcomes as Ofsted published them. Report cards (from November 2025) give no overall grade, and grades under different frameworks can’t be compared.

Department for Education

In 2025/26, the average Attainment 8 score at Portal House School was 13.9, against 42.0 in Dover and 46.2 in England.

0% of its pupils got grade 5 or above in English and maths GCSEs (46.3% in England).

2025/26, provisional

Measure	This school	Dover	England
Average Attainment 8 score	13.9	42.0	46.2
Grade 5 or above in English and maths	0%	39.1%	46.3%
Grade 4 or above in English and maths	10%	55.6%	64.8%
Pupils at the end of KS4	20	–	–

Portal House School teaches pupils with needs that most schools' pupils do not have, often in very small year groups, so its results are not a fair comparison with mainstream schools. They are not shown on the map.
The 2025/26 figures are provisional. The Department for Education publishes revised ones later in the school year.
Progress 8 cannot be worked out for 2025/26, because the KS2 tests that give the starting point were cancelled in 2020 and 2021.
Results reflect the pupils a school admits as well as its teaching, and a year's results can move a lot in a small school.

In a straight line

St Margaret's-at-Cliffe Primary SchoolPrimary. Graded inspection, January 2025: no overall grade. 52% met the expected standard at KS2 (2024/25)70 m

Admissions and catchments are set by councils and schools, which Open Index doesn’t map. Every school in Dover

Schools: the school lists of the Department for Education, the Welsh Government and the Scottish Government, with Ofsted’s latest inspections for England.
Results: the Department for Education’s school performance tables (Open Government Licence).