The Department for Education and Skills
The Department of Education and Skills initially refused to release details of schools with facilities for visually impaired children. It later released a list of special schools for the visually impaired but admitted that it did not collect information on VI facilities in mainstream schools.
A request under the Freedom of Information Act to the Department of Education and Skills for a list of mainstream primary and secondary schools in England with facilities for the visually impaired drew the following response:
Please find below the information that you requested. Maintained and
Independent schools that cater for Visual Impairment EXCLUDING Special
Schools.
Etchells Primary School
Heald Green
Cheadle
Cheshire
SK8 3DL
This is a Community Primary School with and age range of 5 - 11
St James School
22 Bargate
Grimsby
DN34 4SY
This is an Independent School with an age range of 3 - 16
There are only these two schools that cater for Visual Impairment out
side the Special School genre.