Impact Independent School is on a single site in Dudley, West Midlands. It is registered with the Department for Education (DfE) to provide full-time education for up to 80 pupils. In 2018 the school had a material change inspection so that it was able to move to the present site and to increase the number of pupils on roll. This was the school’s second standard inspection since it became registered with the DfE in November 2014. The inspection was carried out by two inspectors over three days. The school is used as alternative provision by secondary schools in the local area. Pupils Inspection report: Impact Independent School, 30 April–2 May 2019 Page 9 of 12 remain on roll with their mainstream school but receive their full-time education at Impact Independent School. The school uses Dudley Leisure Centre, 89A Wellington Road, Dudley; Portway Lifestyle Centre, Newbury Lane, Oldbury and Leap Dudley Limited, 84 Birmingham Road, Dudley for physical education. It also uses Farm Road Allotment in Oldbury for gardening and creative education. The school admits pupils in Years 8, 9, 10 and 11 who are at risk of permanent exclusion from their mainstream school. These pupils may be underachieving, or need social and emotional support, or find that a mainstream school is not an appropriate setting. The aim of the school is to ‘transform the lives of disadvantaged and vulnerable young people through the fundamental building block that is education’.