Specialist School's Guidance 2009/10
The forthcoming 21st Century Schools white paper will signal some significant changes to the way that the Specialist Schools Programme is operated. We are therefore delaying the publication of the specialist schools guidance until later in the summer term after the White Paper is published. Following this, we will issue interim guidance for specialist schools, including on the proposed direction of travel for the specialist school programme and the criteria for identifying high performing schools. In September we will publish further guidance that will clarify the new arrangements. These changes will not affect the funding received by schools in the programme.
Specialist Schools
The Specialist Schools Programme (SSP) helps schools, in partnership with private sector sponsors and supported by additional Government funding, to establish distinctive identities through their chosen specialisms and achieve their targets to raise standards.
Specialist schools have a special focus on those subjects relating to their chosen specialism but must also meet the National Curriculum requirements and deliver a broad and balanced education to all pupils.
Any maintained secondary school in England can apply for specialist status in one of ten specialisms: arts, business & enterprise, engineering, humanities, languages, mathematics & computing, music, science, sports and technology. Schools can also combine any two specialisms. Special schools can apply for an SEN specialism in one of the four areas of the SEN code of practice.
For an alphabetical list of all 2975 specialist schools please click here (Excel 871 KB).
For a list of all specialist schools by Goverment Office please click here (Excel 910 KB).
For a list of all SEN schools in the Programme please click here (Excel 38 KB).
For a list of all High Performing Specialist schools as at 09/08/08 please click here (Excel 104 KB).
Last update 26/03/09
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HPSS Evaluation
The final evaluation has just been published and can be accessed from the DCSF Research Publications pages.
Gifted and Talented HPSS option
We are inviting schools with a particular interest and expertise in Gifted and Talented education to identify G&T as a specific focus of their HPSS work. Such schools will form part of a national network of secondary G&T centres of excellence. HPSS with a G&T focus will be required to allocated £10,000 of their HPSS funding to their G&T work.
Further information is available on the Guidance 2008 page
Capital Grant Offer
From September 07 all re-designating schools are eligible to apply for an additional capital grant. Please see the Guidance 2008 pages for further information.
Redesignation
All schools submitting SEF and SDP to the DCSF for re-designating purposes should email them to specialist.schools@dcsf.gsi.gov.uk
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