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Castle Wood Special School

Special schoolAges 3–11Community

Coventry, CV2 1FN · Coventry local authority

Coventry’s School Grade C+ better than 38% of towns in England

How full
194 pupils
121% of its 160 places
Free school meals
34%
34 in 100 pupils eligible · outlined square = England’s schools (25)
The gist

What stands out about Castle Wood Special School

  • No letter for this school: the reason is below.
  • Over capacity: 194 pupils for 160 places
  • Ofsted: Requires improvement, July 2024 (shown, not graded)
  • Homes in its postcode sector (CV2 1) sold for a median £195,000; Coventry’s is £225,000

Who goes here

DfE school census, January 2025

166 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%England 15.3%
EHC plan
100%England 3.6%
English as an additional language
31.9%England 18.8%
Free school meals in the last 6 years
43.4%England 26.2%

Girls and boys

Girls 28%Boys 72%
Its letter

No letter for Castle Wood 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.

Graded inspection: Requires improvement, July 2024.

The full reports on Ofsted ↗

Living nearby

Living near Castle Wood Special School

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

Home prices in CV2 1, the school’s postcode sector

Coventry property prices →
£195,000
median sale, 246 sales in 36 months · Coventry £225,000

Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025

£50K£100K£150K£200K£250K2010201520202025CV2 1Coventry
CV2 1Coventry

By type, the 36 months to August 2026

Detached
£300K
Semi-detached
£206K
Terraced
£195K
Flat
£117K
CV2 1Coventry

Homes in CV2 1 sell for a little under Coventry’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

28 state schools
0.5 mi1 mi1.5 miND−DC−C−B−CC−DCC+CDCC−BC+CB−B+D−B+B−C−DCC+DDCastle Wood Special School
ABCDNo letterPrimarySecondary / all-through

Coventry, CV2 1FN

Castle Wood Special School: common questions

What is Castle Wood Special School’s Ofsted rating?

Its latest inspection outcome is Requires improvement (July 2024).

How much do houses cost near Castle Wood Special School?

Homes in its postcode sector, CV2 1, sold for a median £195,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (246 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; Coventry’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.