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Abbey Court Foundation Special School

Abbey Court Foundation Special School

Special schoolAges 3–19CommunitySixth form

Rochester, ME2 3SP · Medway local authority

Rochester’s School Grade B+ better than 68% of towns in England

Photo: ClemRutter · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
How full
236 pupils
94% of its 250 places
Free school meals
48%
48 in 100 pupils eligible · outlined square = England’s schools (25)
The gist

What stands out about Abbey Court Foundation Special School

  • No letter for this school: the reason is below.
  • 48% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (more than England’s 25%)
  • Ofsted: Outstanding, March 2023 (shown, not graded)
  • Homes in its postcode sector (ME2 3) sold for a median £325,000; Rochester’s is £310,000

Who goes here

DfE school census, January 2025

217 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
0.5%England 15.3%
EHC plan
99.5%England 3.6%
English as an additional language
25.3%England 18.8%
Free school meals in the last 6 years
47.9%England 26.2%

Girls and boys

Girls 33%Boys 67%
Its letter

No letter for Abbey Court Foundation Special School

Special schools aren’t given a letter: their pupils’ needs differ too much for results to 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 Outstanding, March 2023.

The full reports on Ofsted ↗

Living nearby

Living near Abbey Court Foundation Special School

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

Home prices in ME2 3, the school’s postcode sector

Rochester property prices →
£325,000
median sale, 450 sales in 36 months · Rochester £310,000

Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025

£100K£150K£200K£250K£300K£350K2010201520202025ME2 3Rochester
ME2 3Rochester

By type, the 36 months to August 2026

Detached
£523K
Semi-detached
£360K
Terraced
£270K
Flat
£132K
ME2 3Rochester

Homes in ME2 3 sell for a little over Rochester’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

15 state schools
0.5 mi1 mi1.5 miNC−B−B−B−CC+B−B+DA−Abbey Court Foundation Spec…
ABCDNo letterPrimarySecondary / all-through

Rochester, ME2 3SP

Abbey Court Foundation Special School: common questions

What is Abbey Court Foundation Special School’s Ofsted rating?

Its latest inspection outcome is Outstanding (March 2023).

How much do houses cost near Abbey Court Foundation Special School?

Homes in its postcode sector, ME2 3, sold for a median £325,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (450 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; Rochester’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.