Exhall Grange School
| Established | 15 January 1951 |
|---|---|
| Type | Special school |
| Headteacher | Christine Marshall |
| Deputy Headteacher | Jane Sanderson (Part Time) Helen Seickell |
| Chair | Jon Earl |
| Location |
Easter Way Ash Green Coventry West Midlands CV7 9HP England |
| Local authority | Warwickshire County Council |
| DfE URN | 125794 Tables |
| Ofsted | Reports |
| Staff | 95 (approx.) |
| Students | 205 (approx.) |
| Gender | Coeducational |
| Ages | 2–19 |
| Houses | Easter Edison Hawking Ingram |
| Colours | Pink Green Orange Purple |
| Website | Exhall Grange Official Website |
Exhall Grange School and Science College is a community special school located in Ash Green just outside Coventry in Warwickshire, England. The school caters for pupils ranging in age from 2 to 19 years and who have a range of disabilities and learning difficulties, such as physical disability, visual impairment, Autism Spectrum Disorder, Asperger syndrome, ADHD, Blindness and many more.
Opened in 1951 as a school for visually impaired pupils, Exhall Grange was the first school to cater exclusively for partially sighted children. It later widened its remit to include pupils with other disabilities, and became a grammar school in 1960. Under the stewardship of one of its best known headmasters, George Marshall OBE, the school gained an international reputation for the quality of its education, while Marshall himself became a leading expert on the education and welfare of visually impaired people. Marshall's successor, Richard Bignell, steered the school towards a more comprehensive approach to education, and as a visually impaired person himself championed the use of computers as an aid to learning.
The school was a boarding school for many years, but significantly reduced its boarding facilities during the 1990s and 2000s as its role as a special school changed, and it is now a day school. In 2001 Exhall Grange began to share its campus with RNIB Pears Centre for Specialist Learning (then known as RNIB Rushton School and Children's Home), an RNIB school which relocated there from Northamptonshire. A children's hospice also occupies part of the site. Exhall Grange was the first special school to be awarded science college status in 2003, and celebrated its Diamond Jubilee year in 2011.
Exhall Grange School was established in 1951 on the site of a former Second World War army base, and began life with twelve pupils. The school originally specialised in teaching pupils with visual impairment, and was the first purpose-built school for partially sighted children to be opened in the United Kingdom. Among its features was specially designed lighting to help pupils read and navigate their way around more easily. The school later began to extend its facilities and to enrol students with other disabilities, while in 1960 a grammar school department was added to enable disabled students from across the United Kingdom to attain a grammar school level of education. It was, for many years, predominantly a boarding school with pupils attending from across the United Kingdom, and it was regarded as being among the best in its field.
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