Birch Wood (Melton Area Special School)

Schools we chose for benchmarking

This is the set of similar schools we've chosen to benchmark this school's pupil and workforce data against.

Choose your own set of schools

We've chosen 30 similar schools to benchmark this school against running cost categories, which includes all staffing (excluding premises staff), ICT, consultancy and catering.

How we chose these schools

We chose these schools based on:

  • school phase or type
  • region
  • number of pupils
  • pupils eligible for free school meals (FSM)
  • pupils with special educational needs (SEN), or proportion of various SEN provisions for special schools

SEN characteristics will be taken into account when comparators are chosen, these include:

  • communication and interaction
  • cognition and learning
  • social, emotional, and mental health (SEMH)
  • sensory and/or physical needs
Schools we've chosen
School Type Number of pupils Pupils with special educational needs Pupils eligible for free school meals
Birch Wood (Melton Area Special School)
(Your chosen school)
Special 245 100% 38.4%
St Nicholas School
Purley, CR8 4DS
Special 274 100% 41.6%
Shaftesbury High School
Harrow, HA3 6LE
Special 171 100% 44.4%
Hazel Oak School
Solihull, B90 2AZ
Special 200 100% 38%
Ravenscliffe High School
Halifax, HX3 0RZ
Special 257 100% 40.5%
Westhaven School
Weston-super-Mare, BS23 4UT
Special 185 100% 45.4%
Ivel Valley School & College
Biggleswade, SG18 0NL
Special 259 100% 39%
Pebble Brook School
Aylesbury, HP21 8LZ
Special 172 100% 45.9%
Stony Dean School
Amersham, HP7 9JW
Special 213 100% 38.5%
Booker Park Community School
Aylesbury, HP21 9ET
Special 243 100% 33.3%
Dorin Park School & Specialist SEN College
Chester, CH2 1HD
Special 157 100% 38.9%
Sandgate School
Kendal, LA9 6JG
Special 151 100% 29.1%
Brackenfield Special School
Nottingham, NG10 4DA
Special 206 100% 45.6%
Ellen Tinkham School
Exeter, EX1 3RW
Special 236 100% 47.5%
Southbrook School
Exeter, EX2 6JB
Special 139 100% 41.7%
Winchelsea School
Poole, BH12 4LL
Special 235 100% 43.8%
Alderman Knight School
Tewkesbury, GL20 8JJ
Special 242 100% 32.6%
Rigby Hall Day Special School
Bromsgrove, B60 2EP
Special 215 100% 36.7%
Garston Manor School
Watford, WD25 7HR
Special 163 100% 41.7%
Morecambe Road School
Morecambe, LA3 3AB
Special 221 100% 45.2%
Thornton-Cleveleys Red Marsh School
Blackpool, FY5 4HH
Special 134 100% 52.2%
Chapel Green School
Old Buckenham, NR17 1RF
Special 179 100% 36.3%
The Parkside School, Norwich
Norwich, NR2 3JA
Special 189 100% 53.4%
Polden Bower School
Bridgwater, TA6 4GU
Special 247 100% 43.7%
Marshlands School
Stafford, ST16 1PS
Special 173 100% 38.7%
Manor Green College
Crawley, RH11 0DX
Special 210 100% 38.6%
Crowdys Hill School
Swindon, SN2 7HJ
Special 326 100% 41.1%
Pendle Community High School & College
Nelson, BB9 8LF
Special 163 100% 49.1%
Sir Tom Finney Community High School
Preston, PR2 6EE
Special 237 100% 46.4%
Woodlands Meed
Burgess Hill, RH15 9EY
Special 281 100% 31.7%