Meadowgate School is a complex special needs school, which provides for pupils with moderate learning difficulties, severe learning difficulties, profound and multiple learning difficulties and pupils with autistic spectrum disorders. A few pupils have multi-sensory impairment and additional very complex medical needs. Every pupil has a statement of special educational needs. Most pupils are White British and none are from families where English is not the spoken language. The proportion of pupils known to be eligible for free school meals is above the national average. There are significantly more boys than girls on roll. There are many more pupils in the secondary and sixth form departments than in the Early Years Foundation Stage and primary department. The school has specialist status in physical and sensory learning and as such provides support, particularly in working with pupils on the autistic spectrum disorder, to local schools in the area. Currently a new school is under construction on the existing school site and as a consequence the sixth form are in temporary accommodation, which has an impact on the use of some specialist rooms during the re-build.