Crawley Forest School
Crawley Forest School in Pease Pottage is an independent special school and children’s home for young people aged between 7 and 18 who have:
- behavioural, emotional and social difficulties
- autistic spectrum disorders
- Asperger’s Syndrome
- learning difficulties
- various mental health issues
Up to 35 residential pupils can be accommodated, along with up to 20 day pupils.
Crawley Forest School has a work experience arrangement with the Arora International hotel in Crawley town centre.
The school was opened on 18 September 2009 by Gloria Hunniford, the TV and radio presenter.
Location and Driving Directions
Crawley Forest School is on Brighton Road in Pease Pottage, not Brighton Road in Crawley, which is a couple of miles to the north.
It is on a 6-acre site formerly occupied by the BAA training centre, next door to G & GW Bridges’ car breaker’s yard:
From the A23 and junction 11 of the M23:
- Follow the signs for the B2114 to Handcross
- Carry on past the motorway service station
- Go straight on at the small roundabout
- Crawley Forest School is a couple of hundred yards along on the left-hand side of the road, immediately after the entrance to the car scrap yard.
Reference Numbers
- Crawley Forest School’s Ofsted URN is SC398188
- and the school registration number is 938/6277.
Forest School, Horsham
Crawley Forest School in Pease Pottage is not the same thing as Forest School in Horsham.
The Crossroads Group
Crawley Forest School in Pease Pottage is owned and run by The Crossroads Group, an educational company that has no connection with:
- The Crossroads Group, car dealers based in Batley, Yorkshire
- The Crossroads Group, a private equity firm bought by Lehman Brothers in 2003 and presumably no longer in existence.
Contact Details
- website
- no website yet
- crawleyforestschool@thecrossroadsgroup.co.uk
- phone
- 01293 564000
- address
- Brighton Road, Pease Pottage, West Sussex, RH11 9AD