Side By Side School[1]
Special · ages 2–20
Headline results
Special schools' results are not shown as headlines: they are not comparable with mainstream schools'.
Results
No published data for this school.
Ofsted
- Inspected by
- Ofsted[2]
- Latest inspection
- 1 Jul 2025[3]
- Type
- Independent School standard inspection[3]
- Report published
- 9 Sep 2025[3]
- Personal development
- Outstanding[3]
- Quality of education
- Outstanding[3]
- Overall effectiveness
- Outstanding[3]
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Outstanding[3]
- Safeguarding is effective?
- Yes[3]
- Independent school standards
- All standards Met[3]
- Sixth form provision (where applicable)
- Outstanding[3]
- Early years provision (where applicable)
- Outstanding[3]
- Effectiveness of leadership and management
- Outstanding[3]
Ofsted inspects this independent school against the Independent School Standards; "Independent school standards" says whether it met all of them at its latest standard inspection.
Competition to get in
No published data for this school.
Character & practicalities
- Type
- Other independent special school[1]
- Ages
- 2–20[1]
- Boys / girls
- Mixed[1]
- Admissions
- Non-selective[1]
- Boarding
- No boarders[1]
- Capacity
- 150[1]
- Local authority
- Hackney[1]
- Website
- http://www.sidebyside.org.uk[1]
- Nursery classes
- Has Nursery Classes[2]
- Special classes
- Has Special Classes[2]
- Section 41 (can be named in an EHC plan)
- Not approved[2]
- District
- Hackney[4]
- Postcode
- N16 0QJ[1]
- URN
- 133439[1]
School details as recorded in Get Information About Schools on 14 Oct 2026.
Pupils
- Number on roll
- 110 2024/25[5]
- SEN support
- 21.8% 2024/25[5]
- EHC plan
- 76.4% 2024/25[5]
- Free school meals in the last 6 years
- 0% 2024/25[5]
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: 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.
- Ofsted: Non-association independent schools inspections and outcomes. Period 2026-07-31, provisional. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
- 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.