Oak Lodge School is a secondary school for deaf children (aged 11 to 19), located in the London borough of Wandsworth in England.
Oak Lodge School also hosts other services, such as Deaf First (for education of deaf adults), a Hearing Impaired Service and a 6th Form (providing support to deaf students who are educated at nearby colleges and on-site).
The school currently has 77 pupils from 25 different boroughs. A small number of children stay in the school's residential hostel during the week. There are 28 teachers, of whom 12 are deaf, along with 15 teaching assistants.
Read more about Oak Lodge School: Ofsted Inspection, History
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