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Selective secondary school in Colyton, Devon

Colyton Grammar School

Whitwell Lane, Colyford, Colyton, Devon, EX24 6HN

Ofsted Outstanding · 2022 Selective Sixth form Full
School website 01297552327

Ofsted

Outstandingas at 22 November 2022

Graded Outstanding at its last graded inspection, on 22 November 2022.

Ofsted stopped awarding single-word overall grades in September 2024. This grade is 3 years old and will not be updated — the school keeps it until its next inspection, which will not produce a replacement grade.

Read the Ofsted report

GCSE results 2024/25

Attainment 8 score

78.8 England 47

The average grade across eight GCSEs, doubling English and maths. 50 is roughly a grade 5 average.

Grade 5+ in English & maths

99% England 46.2%

Grade 4+ in English & maths

99% England 66.2%

EBacc average point score

7.6 England 4.2

Entered the EBacc

88% England 40.8%

On Attainment 8 this school is in the top 5% of state-funded secondaries in England.

Compared with the fifth of schools whose intake is least disadvantaged, which is where this one sits, it is in the top 10%.

Progress 8 2023/24

0.99confidence interval 0.75 to 1.23

Taking that range into account, pupils made more progress than similar pupils nationally. DfE bands this as well above average.

Progress 8 measures how far pupils moved between the end of primary and their GCSEs, which makes it far fairer than raw attainment. It is shown for 2023/24 because it could not be calculated for 2024/25: that year group would have sat their key stage 2 tests in summer 2020, when the tests were cancelled, so there is no starting point to measure from. Every school in England is affected, not just this one.

A levels 2024/25

Average grade per entry
A-
Average points per entry
47.7

England average 32.3

A level students
142

Pupils

Pupils on roll
1083
Places
1085
How full
Nearly full — 1083 of 1085 places taken
Girls / boys
459 / 624
Overall absence
5%

secondary schools average 8.6%

Persistently absent
19%

secondary schools average 23.9% — pupils missing 10% or more of sessions

Free school meals, last 6 years
7%

England 25.7%

English as an additional language
10%

England 18.7%

With an EHC plan
1%

England 3.5%

On SEN support
5%

England 15%

What pupils do next

After GCSEs

In education, work or training
98%

England 91.4%

Stayed in education
98%

England 85.4%

Started an apprenticeship
0%

England 3.5%

Stayed at this school's sixth form
86%
No sustained destination
1%

England 5.8%

Pupils in the cohort
153

After sixth form

Went to university
62%

England 50%

In education, work or training
86%

England 84.3%

Started an apprenticeship
2%

England 6.5%

Students in the cohort
122

Going on to university 2021/22 leavers

Went to a top third university

73% England 20.9%

The third of higher education providers whose entrants hold the highest average entry qualifications. It is the closest thing in the public data to "did they get into a competitive university", and it separates schools far more sharply than the headline progression rate does.

Went on to a degree
90%

England 65.3%

Students in the cohort
125

These follow an earlier group of leavers than the figures above, and count anyone reaching higher education within two years rather than the term after leaving, so they are not directly comparable with them.

A destination counts only if it lasted at least six months, which is why these figures lag the exam results by a year, and why the university figures track leavers from 2021/22. Small cohorts move these percentages a long way — check the cohort size before reading much into a gap.

The neighbourhood around the school

Census 2021 figures for East Devon 007B, the statistical neighbourhood the school sits in — roughly 1,500 residents. It describes the area, not the pupils, who may travel in from further away.

Adults with a degree
36%

England 33.8%

Adults with no qualifications
14%

England 18.3%

Households owning their home
84%

England 62.7%

Households in social housing
5%

England 17%

Households with no car
10%

England 21.9%

Adults economically inactive
59%

England 39.9%

School details

Type
Academy converter
Phase
Secondary
Ages
Ages 11–18
Gender
Mixed
Admissions
Selective (entrance test)
Religious character
None
Sixth form
Yes
Nursery
No
Boarding
Day school
Trust
COLYTON GRAMMAR SCHOOL ACADEMY TRUST
Headteacher
Headteacher: Tim Harris
Local authority
Devon
Ward
Coly Valley
Constituency
Honiton and Sidmouth
URN
136366

The unique reference number used in all official school data.

Nearest secondary schools

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8Distance
Axe Valley AcademyAcademy sponsor led Good 2023 39.2 5.1 mi
The Woodroffe SchoolFoundation school Good 2023 51.4 5.4 mi
Honiton Community CollegeAcademy converter No grade 40.4 7.3 mi
Sidmouth CollegeAcademy converter No grade 45.9 7.3 mi
St John's SchoolOther independent school No grade 8.3 mi

Schools with a similar intake

State-funded secondary schools nationally whose share of disadvantaged pupils is closest to this school's. This is the fairest like-for-like comparison the published data supports.

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8
Torquay Boys' Grammar SchoolAcademy converter No grade 70.8
Old Swinford HospitalVoluntary aided school Good 2022 59
Aylesbury Grammar SchoolAcademy converter Outstanding 2022 74.5
Bowland HighAcademy converter Good 2022 47.8
Queen Elizabeth SchoolAcademy converter Good 2022 59.6
Dartford Grammar SchoolAcademy converter Outstanding 2022 79.9
Queen Elizabeth's Grammar SchoolAcademy converter Good 2023 65.1
Beaumont SchoolAcademy converter No grade 62.6

Where these figures come from

  • School details, address and pupil numbers — Get Information About Schools, the DfE register, as at 14 August 2026.
  • Exam results — DfE performance tables, 2024/25, and 2023/24 for Progress 8.
  • Free school meals, EAL and SEN — school census, 2024/25.
  • Ofsted — Ofsted management information, latest inspections as at 30 June 2026.
  • Neighbourhood figures — ONS Census 2021, lower layer super output area.

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