Farleigh College

Newbury Manor School

The school's first home, at Farleigh Hungerford
Type	Independent special school
Location	Newbury Manor Newbury Frome Somerset BA11 3RG England 51°15′11″N 2°25′56″W / 51.2531°N 2.4321°W / 51.2531; -2.4321Coordinates: 51°15′11″N 2°25′56″W / 51.2531°N 2.4321°W / 51.2531; -2.4321
DfE number	933/6195
DfE URN	131016 Tables
Ofsted	Reports
Students	41
Gender	Coeducational
Ages	11–19
Website	School homepage

Newbury Manor School, formerly Farleigh College, is a mainly residential special school for pupils with Asperger syndrome, situated at Newbury, near Mells, seven miles from Frome, in the English county of Somerset. It previously occupied Farleigh House at Farleigh Hungerford, a few miles to the north, from which it took its former name.

The school is co-educational, fully approved by the Department for Education, and accepts students between the ages of 11 and 19. A team of some ninety members of staff caters for approximately 48 students, of whom about one fifth are girls, and the school also accepts part-time students. Newbury Manor School is run by the Priory Group. It also holds the Investors in People Award.

The school has its origins in Ravenscroft School, founded at Yelverton, Devon, in the 1930s and later moved to Beckington Castle and then to Farleigh House at Farleigh Hungerford, near Bath. This began as a prep school, but in the 1970s it found a new role as a special school specializing in teaching dyslexic children, and in 1996 it was re-organised as Farleigh College, a new institution which took over its staff, pupils, and premises. Farleigh College was launched in September 1996 with forty children, of whom thirty were dyslexic and ten had been diagnosed with Asperger's, and at the outset it had a five-year lease on Farleigh House.