Secondary school recommendations for dyslexic boy

[Paddingtonthecat]

My DS is about to make the jump from primary to secondary school. We are currently living abroad and the school option here is becoming more limited by the day. We are now thinking of looking at schools in the UK, but having not lived there for 5 years we are a bit out of date. Any thoughts?

Dyslexia can mean a whole range of things (there is a specialist dyslexic unit at Eton for instance). You need to think about how bad his problem is, whether you want state or private education, does he need specialist provision or could he cope with mainstream with some extra support? What are his areas of weakness?
A good starting place might be the Good Schools Guide, which does produce a specialist guide to SEN provision in schools.

He is a mainstream child requiring support. Where we are is populated with mostly acadmic schools, which are not too open to taking a child requiring support. I am looking for personal experience of somebody who has made this leap already

The biggest problem in the UK is the dyslexia industry, or those who make claim to understand dyslexia and provide support. The problem is due to money, marketing, and the sale and promotion of remedial programs, and the diagnostic test based around these programs.
This unfortunately means that the needs of real dyslexics are lost to the needs of the marketing men and the professionals whose income is based the marketing myth and hype.

There are three cognitive subtypes of developmental dyslexia, auditory, visual, and attentional. Which means that an auditory processing disorder, a visual processing disorder, an attention disorder, or any combination of the three is the underlying cause of your DS's dyslexic symptom.

So you may need to identify the cause(S) of your DS dyslexic symptom as this will provide the best guide to how best to help him work around his cognitive deficit / disability.