Browns School[1]
Special · ages 11–18
Headline results
Special schools' results are not shown as headlines: they are not comparable with mainstream schools'.
Results
Results at special schools and alternative provision aren't comparable with mainstream schools'. Shown as published, not compared.
GCSE (key stage 4)
- Attainment 8
- 4.5 2025/26[2]
- Grade 5+ in English & maths
- 0% 2025/26[2]
- Grade 7+ in English & maths
- 0% 2025/26[2]
- Progress 8, 2025/26
- Not calculated[3]
- Progress 8, 2024/25
- Not calculated[3]
Ofsted
- Inspected by
- Independent Schools Inspectorate (ISI)[8]
ISI inspection
- Inspection
- March 2025[9]
- Framework
- Framework from September 2023[9]
- Leadership and governance
- Standards met[9]
- Quality of education
- Standards met[9]
- Health and wellbeing
- Standards met[9]
- Social and economic education
- Standards met[9]
- Safeguarding
- Standards met[9]
Quality of education
- ISI recommended: The school should improve the results of pupils with high prior attainment in exams.
Health and wellbeing
- ISI recommended: The school should improve how sex education topics are taught in the RSE programme.
Findings of the Independent Schools Inspectorate (ISI), restated in our own words: not ISI's wording. Read the full report on ISI's website.
Competition to get in
No published data for this school.
Character & practicalities
- Type
- Other independent special school[1]
- Ages
- 11–18[1]
- Boys / girls
- Mixed[1]
- Boarding
- No boarders[1]
- Capacity
- 99[1]
- Local authority
- Bromley[1]
- Website
- www.brownsschool.co.uk[1]
- Section 41 (can be named in an EHC plan)
- Not approved[8]
- District
- Bromley[10]
- Postcode
- BR6 7PH[1]
- URN
- 131395[1]
School details as recorded in Get Information About Schools on 14 Oct 2026.
Pupils
- Number on roll
- 96 2024/25[11]
- SEN support
- 0% 2024/25[11]
- EHC plan
- 99% 2024/25[11]
- Free school meals in the last 6 years
- 0% 2024/25[11]
Sources
- Department for Education: Get Information About Schools: all establishments. Period 2026-10-14, published 2026-10-14. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
- Department for Education: Performance tables schools data (explore education statistics). Period 2025/26, provisional, published 2026-10-15. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
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Department for Education: Key stage 4 performance 2024/25: data guidance. Period 2024/25.
Archived copy; original.
Licence: OGL-3.0.
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It is not possible to calculate Progress 8 for academic years 2024/25 and 2025/26 due to gaps in the baseline caused by COVID-19 disruption.
- Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 final. Period 2024/25, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
- Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 final. Period 2023/24, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
- Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 final. Period 2022/23, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
- Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 final. Period 2021/22, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
- Department for Education: Get Information About Schools: all establishments (independent schools' inspectorate and provision). Period 2026-10-17, published 2026-10-17. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
- Independent Schools Inspectorate: School inspection report, Browns School, March 2025. Period 2026-10-17. Licence: all-rights-reserved (restated only, D71).
- Office for National Statistics: Parish to Ward to Local Authority District (May 2026) Lookup in EW. Period 2026-05-01. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
- Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: School census. Period 2024/25, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.