DfE URN 100873 Phone +44 20 7237 3714 Staff 70 | Ages 11–19 Number of students 100 Gender Mixed-sex education | |
Type Community Special School Location Monnow Road
London
SE1 5RN
England Website www.spa.southwark.sch.uk// Address Monnow Rd, London SE1 5RN, UK Similar Phoenix Primary School, Phoenix Primary & Secondar, The Highshore School, St Saviour's & St Olave's, Cherry Garden School | ||
Spa school
Spa School is a mixed secondary school in Bermondsey in the London Borough of Southwark. It is one of Britain's largest state schools for children with autism, and has a high staff to student ratio.
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The school occupies an old-fashioned red-brick building behind which is a landscaped garden through which flows an artificial stream.
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Students
There are 100 pupils between 11 and 19, both boys and girls, with a range of autism spectrum disorders between severe and high-functioning.
Staff
The head teacher is Simon Eccles. There are over 70 members of staff.
Media attention
The school was featured within a BBC article "School grounds 'improve behaviour'" and students and staff alike were interviewed on the school's scheme of natural improvement within the school grounds.
A Channel 4 documentary Make Me Normal, broadcast on 2 June 2005, was filmed at Spa School. The one-hour documentary followed four students at the school as they revealed what it is like to grow up with a disability that affects around 535,000 people in the UK.