South West
Independent schools in Devon
405 schools, 102,705 pupils. Average Attainment 8 across the authority's state secondaries is 34.9.
Ofsted across Devon
Good201
Requires improvement27
Outstanding4
Inadequate3
No overall grade170
235 of these schools carry a one-word grade from before September 2024, when Ofsted stopped awarding them. The remaining 170 either have no published outcome or were inspected under the current framework, which does not give an overall grade. What changed.
Independent schools in Devon
Sorted by name. A gap of a point or two is noise, not a ranking — read the school pages for the intake-adjusted comparison.
| School | Area | Ofsted | Attainment 8 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blundell's Preparatory SchoolOther independent school | Tiverton | No grade | — |
| Blundell's SchoolOther independent school | Tiverton | No grade | — |
| Chances Educational Support ServicesOther independent school | Dawlish | No grade | — |
| Exeter Cathedral SchoolOther independent school | Exeter | No grade | — |
| Exeter Pre-Prep SchoolOther independent school | Exeter | No grade | — |
| Exeter SchoolOther independent school | Exeter | No grade | — |
| Kingsley School DevonOther independent school | Bideford | No grade | — |
| Mount KellyOther independent school | Tavistock | No grade | — |
| Park SchoolOther independent school | TOTNES | No grade | — |
| Sands SchoolOther independent school | Newton Abbot | No grade | — |
| Shebbear CollegeOther independent school | Beaworthy | No grade | — |
| South Devon Steiner SchoolOther independent school | Devon | No grade | — |
| St Christophers SchoolOther independent school | Totnes | No grade | — |
| St John's SchoolOther independent school | Sidmouth | No grade | — |
| St Peter's Preparatory SchoolOther independent school | Devon | No grade | — |
| Stover SchoolOther independent school | Newton Abbot | No grade | — |
| The Maynard SchoolOther independent school | Exeter | No grade | — |
| Totnes Independent SchoolOther independent school | Totnes | No grade | — |
| Trinity SchoolOther independent school | Devon | No grade | — |
| West Buckland SchoolOther independent school | Barnstaple | No grade | — |