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North West Surrey Short Stay School

Alternative provisionAges 11–16Pupil referral unit

Woking, GU21 6NT · Surrey local authority

Woking’s School Grade A− better than 80% of towns in England

How full
19 pupils
48% of its 40 places
Free school meals
74%
74 in 100 pupils eligible · outlined square = England’s schools (25)
The gist

What stands out about North West Surrey Short Stay School

  • No letter for this school: the reason is below.
  • Room to spare: 19 pupils for 40 places
  • 74% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (more than England’s 25%)
  • Ofsted report card, May 2026: achievement expected standard, safeguarding met (shown, not graded)
  • Homes in its postcode sector (GU21 6) sold for a median £300,000; Woking’s is £425,000

Who goes here

DfE school census, January 2025

19 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
79%England 15.3%
EHC plan
5.3%England 3.6%
English as an additional language
10.5%England 18.8%
Free school meals in the last 6 years
63.2%England 26.2%

Girls and boys

Girls 26%Boys 74%
Its letter

No letter for North West Surrey Short Stay School

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.

Report card, inspection starting May 2026.

SafeguardingMet
AchievementExpected standard
Curriculum and teachingNeeds attention
InclusionExpected standard
Attendance and behaviourStrong standard
Personal development and well-beingNeeds attention
Leadership and governanceExpected standard

Before the report card: Graded inspection: Requires improvement, March 2024. Ungraded inspection: School remains Good (Concerns), January 2023.

The full reports on Ofsted ↗

Living nearby

Living near North West Surrey Short Stay School

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

Home prices in GU21 6, the school’s postcode sector

Woking property prices →
£300,000
median sale, 142 sales in 36 months · Woking £425,000

Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025

£100K£200K£300K£400K£500K2010201520202025GU21 6Woking
GU21 6Woking

By type, the 36 months to August 2026

Detached
£605K
Semi-detached
£530K
Terraced
£441K
Flat
£290K
GU21 6Woking

Homes in GU21 6 sell for well under Woking’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 miNAB+C+B+C−B−B−CB+ACC+A−A−North West Surrey Short Sta…
ABCDNo letterPrimarySecondary / all-through

Woking, GU21 6NT

North West Surrey Short Stay School: common questions

What is North West Surrey Short Stay School’s Ofsted rating?

Its latest inspection (May 2026) gave a report card: achievement expected standard, safeguarding met. Ofsted stopped giving one-word overall grades in September 2024.

How much do houses cost near North West Surrey Short Stay School?

Homes in its postcode sector, GU21 6, sold for a median £300,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (142 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; Woking’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.

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