Team Domenica, Brighton

Ofsted's report card from its 9 June 2026 inspection grades Team Domenica on 5 areas: 2 strong standard and 3 expected standard. Report cards replaced single-word judgements in November 2025, on a five-point scale from exceptional to urgent improvement.

Inclusion - Strong standard. "Leaders have created a culture with inclusion at its heart and with shared high aspirations for all learners."

Leadership and governance - Expected standard. "Leaders, with input from learners and staff, have created a vision and set of values centred on helping young people with learning disabilities and autism to succeed in work and thrive in life."

Participation and development - Strong standard. "Learners respond very positively to leaders' high expectations for them to acquire the skills, values and behaviours essential for success in life and work."

Achievement - Expected standard. "Learners, all of whom have special educational needs and/or disabilities and often experience other challenges to their learning, make appropriate progress from their starting points."

Curriculum and teaching - Expected standard. "Leaders have implemented processes and practices to provide them with an accurate understanding of the quality of the provision."

Safeguarding standards were met.

Ofsted's next steps for the school: "Leaders should ensure that learners make sustained progress in functional skills English from their varied and individual starting points and pass their final assessments"; "Leaders should continue to consolidate and refine the changes they are making to the functional skills curriculum and how it is taught, so that high standards are sustained, in line with other parts of the provision".

In its own words: "As a charity and Specialist Further Education College, we support people with learning disabilities and autism to unlock the skills and experiences they need to thrive in the workplace, and beyond. There are 137,000 adults with learning disabilities in England, but just 4.7% are in paid employment (DHSC, 2025)."

The school runs after-school care.

The nearest other special schools to Team Domenica are Hamilton Lodge School and College for Deaf Children (1.2 miles, Good); St. John's College (Brighton) (1.3 miles, Good); Brighton and Hove Clinic School (1.8 miles, Outstanding); and Downs View Life Skills College (2 miles, Requires improvement).

Team Domenica is approved under Section 41 of the Children and Families Act 2014, so parents can ask for it to be named in their child's education, health and care (EHC) plan.

The nearest railway station is London Road (Brighton) Rail Station, about 380 metres away (roughly a 5-minute walk).

11 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Preston Circus, 40 metres away.

In August 2026, police recorded 1852 crimes within a mile of the school, most often violence and sexual offences, anti-social behaviour and shoplifting. That is well above the typical figure around schools in Brighton and Hove (366), as is usual near a town centre.