Browns School
Hawstead Lane, Chelsfield, BR6 7PH
Independent special school for ages 11–18 in Chelsfield. Mixed intake, Church of England ethos.
Browns School is an independent special school in Orpington, Bromley, for boys and girls aged 11 to 18, with a Church of England ethos. Its SEN provision includes specific learning difficulty, speech, language and communication needs, and autistic spectrum disorder. At its February 2022 Ofsted inspection, the school was judged Inadequate and independent school standards were not all met. A later ISI inspection in March 2025 found standards and safeguarding standards met.
The school says it was established in 1997 by Martin Brown as a dyslexia specialist school, and describes small classes, tailored lessons and specialist support from speech and language, occupational therapy, clinical psychology and pastoral teams.