Grange School is a coeducational special school, located in Kempston

Kempston

Kempston is a town and civil parish located in Bedfordshire, England. Once known as the largest village in England, Kempston is now a town with its own town council. It has a population of about 20,000, and together with Bedford, it forms an urban area with around 100,000 inhabitants, which is the...

, Bedfordshire

Bedfordshire

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, England

England

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. The school accepts pupils between the ages of 5 and 16 years with Moderate Learning Difficulties

Learning disability

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 from all over the Borough of Bedford

Bedford (borough)

Bedford is a unitary authority with the status of a borough in the ceremonial county of Bedfordshire, England. Its council is based at Bedford, which is also the county town of Bedfordshire. The borough contains a single urban area, the 69th largest in the United Kingdom that comprises Bedford and...

.

The school is currently organised into two departments:

• The Primary Department covering Key Stage 1
  Key Stage 1
  Key Stage 1 is the legal term for the two years of schooling in maintained schools in England and Wales normally known as Year 1 and Year 2, when pupils are aged between 5 and 7. This Key Stage normally covers pupils during infant school, although in some cases this might form part of a first or...
  
   and Key Stage 2
  Key Stage 2
  Key Stage 2 is the legal term for the four years of schooling in maintained schools in England and Wales normally known as Year 3, Year 4, Year 5 and Year 6, when pupils are aged between 7 and 11. The term is applied differently in Northern Ireland where it refers to pupils in Year 5, Year 6 and...
  
   (ages 5 - 11)
• The Secondary Department covering Key Stage 3
  Key Stage 3
  Key Stage 3 is the legal term for the three years of schooling in maintained schools in England and Wales normally known as Year 7, Year 8 and Year 9, when pupils are aged between 11 and 14...
  
   and Key Stage 4
  Key Stage 4
  Key Stage 4 is the legal term for the two years of school education which incorporate GCSEs, and other exams, in maintained schools in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland—normally known as Year 10 and Year 11 in England and Wales, and Year 11 and Year 12 in Northern Ireland, when pupils are...
  
   (ages 11 - 16)

In October 2009, Bedford Borough Council launched a consultation on the future of special education provision in the borough. The consultation included options to merge Grange School with the nearby Ridgeway School

Ridgeway School, Kempston

Ridgeway School is a coeducational special school for pupils with physical disabilities, located in Kempston, Bedfordshire, England. The school accepts pupils from all over the Borough of Bedford....

 on the Ridgeway site. Another proposal involved merging the two schools with St John’s School

St John’s School (Kempston)

St John’s School is a coeducational special school, located in Kempston, Bedfordshire, England. The school accepts pupils from all over the Borough of Bedford....

to create one special school for the whole of the Borough of Bedford. In January 2010, Bedford Borough Council confirmed its intention to merge Grange School and Ridgeway School on the Ridgeway site in the next few years. The new combined school will be rebuilt to accommodate the broader range of pupils that are planned to attend.

External links

• Grange School homepage