Woodlane High is a community special school, serving pupils with education, health and care plans in west London. Pupils have a complex range of special educational needs and disabilities, including speech, language and communication needs, autism and specific learning difficulties. Some pupils have medical and/or physical disabilities. There is a medical needs unit on the same site. More than half of the pupils come from disadvantaged backgrounds. More than one third of pupils speak English as an additional language. Girls make up one third of the school’s population.