Banks House School, Norwich
Data last updated 11 Sept 2026
Key Information
DfE GIASOfsted Rating
Ofsted · 1 year agoOverall
Ofsted Insights
What This School Does Well
Banks House School excels at supporting young people with complex special educational needs and disabilities. The school has invested significantly in creating well-maintained, purpose-built facilities including new learning areas and outdoor sensory spaces. Staff are highly trained and attentive to pupils' individual needs, with safeguarding at the heart of everything the school does.
Key Strengths
- Strong safeguarding culture with high staff training levels, daily oversight and clear systems for recording concerns - safeguarding embedded into everyday practice
- Well-developed health and safety policies that are effectively implemented with regular checks and swift action on identified issues
- High adult-to-child staffing ratio model with careful timetabling and rotas to ensure appropriate pupil support
- Excellent premises with recent expansion including new learning areas and outdoor sensory spaces, well-maintained and secure
- Robust procedures for safer recruitment of staff with accurate single central record monitoring
Safeguarding
Safeguarding is effective with leaders demonstrating strong understanding of pupils' complex needs, fostering a vigilant culture through high staff training levels, daily oversight and clear systems for responding to concerns.
Banks House School is an independent special school for pupils aged 13-19 with autism, learning disabilities, mental health conditions and complex needs. The inspection found the school is likely to meet all relevant independent school standards if its proposed material change to increase pupil numbers from 9 to 12 is approved.
At a Glance
No
Boarding
No
Nursery
No
Sixth Form
No
Special Measures
Class Sizes
0.0
Avg class size
0
Total classes
2024/25 academic year
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Capacity & Demand
School Occupancy
83%
Available places
10 pupils
12 capacity
2 spare places available
Area Demand Pressure - Norwich
Based on MHCLG housing supply data for Norwich
Admissions Demand - Norfolk
Places available
9,550
Applications
8,636
Got 1st preference
93.3%
Got preferred school
98.2%
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SEN Provision
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Pupil Demographics
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