Appleford School is a co-educational boarding and day school, approved by the Department for Children, Schools and Families, which provides for pupils with dyslexia and associated language difficulties, dyspraxia and ADHD. Pupils are aged from 7 to 14 years and there is a total of 77 on roll, 61 boys and 16 girls. 48 pupils are boarders. 18 pupils have statements of special educational need. Pupils are funded through a variety of sources, including local authorities, privately or the Children’s Education Advisory Service. The school opened in 1988 on the outskirts of the village of Shrewton near Salisbury. The school aims to ‘rebuild and maintain pupils’ self-confidence, to alleviate the negative feeling of failure and to encourage each pupil to achieve his/her potential in academic, personal and social development’. Ofsted last inspected the school in 2006.