Portfield School
Special schoolPortfield School is a special school in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, for pupils aged 4 to 19. It had 144 pupils at the school census in January 2026.
Ofsted
Latest inspections as at 30 September 2026Standards maintained, November 2024
- Latest ungraded inspection
- Standards maintained, 27 November 2024
Outcomes as Ofsted published them. Report cards (from November 2025) give no overall grade, and grades under different frameworks can’t be compared.
Results
Department for EducationEnd of secondary school (KS4, GCSEs)
2025/26, provisional| Measure | This school | Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average Attainment 8 score | Does not apply to this school | 49.9 | 46.2 |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | Does not apply to this school | 56.3% | 46.3% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | Does not apply to this school | 74% | 64.8% |
| Pupils at the end of KS4 | 9 | – | – |
- Portfield 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.
Where these figures come from
- 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).