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Children's Support Service

Alternative provisionAges 5–16Pupil referral unit

Runwell, SS11 7JZ · Essex local authority

Runwell’s School Grade C better than 34% of towns in England

How full
102 pupils
52% of its 198 places
Free school meals
46%
46 in 100 pupils eligible · outlined square = England’s schools (25)
The gist

What stands out about Children's Support Service

  • No letter for this school: the reason is below.
  • Room to spare: 102 pupils for 198 places
  • 46% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (more than England’s 25%)
  • Ofsted: Good, May 2023 (shown, not graded)
  • Homes in its postcode sector (SS11 7) sold for a median £420,000; Runwell’s is £420,000

Who goes here

DfE school census, January 2025

91 pupils. SEN support is extra help in school for a special educational need; an EHC plan is the council’s legal plan for pupils who need more.

SEN support
78%England 15.3%
EHC plan
19.8%England 3.6%
English as an additional language
1.1%England 18.8%
Free school meals in the last 6 years
64.8%England 26.2%

Girls and boys

Girls 21%Boys 79%
Its letter

No letter for Children's Support Service

Alternative provision isn’t given a letter: pupils come for part of their schooling, so results don’t compare with mainstream schools.

Letters go to England’s open mainstream state schools with published Key Stage 2 or GCSE results (grammar schools included), each against the schools of its own phase.

Ofsted

Ofsted inspections

Shown, not graded: Ofsted is never part of a letter or the School Grade.

Ungraded inspection: School remains Good, May 2023.

The full reports on Ofsted ↗

Living nearby

Living near Children's Support Service

For families thinking of moving: what homes cost around the school, and the other schools close by.

Home prices in SS11 7, the school’s postcode sector

Runwell property prices →
£420,000
median sale, 402 sales in 36 months · Runwell £420,000

Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025

£200K£250K£300K£350K£400K£450K£500K2010201520202025SS11 7Runwell
SS11 7Runwell

By type, the 36 months to August 2026

Detached
£580K
Semi-detached
£395K
Terraced
£342K
Flat
£192K
SS11 7Runwell

Homes in SS11 7 sell for about the same as Runwell’s typical price. HM Land Registry Price Paid, standard sales. Catchments aren’t published, so the postcode sector stands in for “around the school”.

Schools within 1.6 miles

11 state schools
0.5 mi1 mi1.5 miNC+B−B+C+C−DB+B+Children's Support Service
ABCDNo letterPrimarySecondary / all-through

Runwell, SS11 7JZ

Children's Support Service: common questions

What is Children's Support Service’s Ofsted rating?

Its latest inspection outcome is Good (May 2023).

How much do houses cost near Children's Support Service?

Homes in its postcode sector, SS11 7, sold for a median £420,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (402 sales).

Sources: DfE Get Information about Schools (16 October 2026), Key Stage 2 performance tables (2023–2025, three-year average) and Key Stage 4 (2025/26, provisional); Ofsted state-funded school inspections as at 30 September 2026. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Also: DfE Key Stage 4 performance, schools data (2023/24 and 2024/25 final, 2025/26 provisional) and Key Stage 2 performance tables 2024/25 by subject; DfE school census, January 2025; DfE school-level applications and offers, September 2019 to 2026 entry; HM Land Registry Price Paid by postcode sector, 2010 to August 2026.

A school’s letter is our own summary of its published results against England’s schools of the same phase; Runwell’s School Grade is a separate grade, built from the results of the schools in and around the town against other towns. Map: © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026 (ONS boundaries). Northern Ireland: Source: NISRA; contains Land & Property Services data and Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland information, © Crown copyright, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Scotland: contains National Records of Scotland data, Registers of Scotland data and SEPA data, © Crown copyright / © SEPA 2025, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.