Welcome to the Centre Academy Schools 

'The most successful special needs schools in the UK and, indeed the most unique.'

Welcome to the oldest schools of their kind in the UK. At both our campuses, Centre Academy London and Centre Academy East Anglia, we offer an excellent education while also teaching the skills and coping strategies that enable students with a variety of learning difficulties to succeed.

All schools are, of course, unique—but the Centre Academy program has long been recognised as the most pioneering within special needs education. Here’s why:

--We accept a broad range of ages; at CA London (day students) from 9 to 18; at CA East Anglia (day and boarding) from 8 to 16. This eliminates the anxiety, common to children facing learning challenges, of having to move from one school to another.

--We address an equally broad range of learning challenges, including Dyslexia, AD/HD, Dyspraxia, Asperger Syndrome, Speech and Language problems, to name a few.

--Admission is on a case-by-case basis; the Centre Academy Schools do not follow a ‘one size fits all’ approach.

--We ‘cap’ our enrolment to ensure very small classes; at CA London, a total of 60 students; at CA East Anglia, a total of 40 students. Most class sizes are 5 or 6 students, with significant amounts of one-to-one instruction to complement classroom work.

--We follow the National Curriculum from Key Stage 2 through GCSE, and we also offer the Life Skills program for students who are more vocationally oriented.

--We are the only school in the UK, including mainstream schools, also to offer the American High School Diploma. The gateway to university, the Diploma is not examination-based but instead involves a system of continual assessment.

--All universities in the UK recognize the Diploma. Note also that we have never had a Diploma graduate who has not gone directly to university.