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Secondary school in Plymouth

Scott Medical and Healthcare College

Somerset Place, Stoke, Plymouth, Devon, PL3 4BD

Sixth form
School website 01752987010

Ofsted

Standards maintained at the last ungraded inspection, on 12 March 2025.

Inspections since September 2024 do not give an overall grade, so there is no one-word judgement to report. The full report sets out what inspectors found.

Read the Ofsted report

GCSE results 2024/25

Attainment 8 score

43.5 England 47

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

Grade 5+ in English & maths

36% England 46.2%

Grade 4+ in English & maths

63% England 66.2%

EBacc average point score

3.5 England 4.2

Entered the EBacc

7% England 40.8%

On Attainment 8 this school is in the lower half of state-funded secondaries in England.

Compared with the fifth of schools whose intake is second least disadvantaged, which is where this one sits, it is in the bottom quarter.

Progress 8 2023/24

0.76confidence interval 0.40 to 1.11

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

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
C+
Average points per entry
32.7

England average 32.3

A level students
14

Pupils

Pupils on roll
231
Places
375
How full
62% full — 231 of 375 places taken, so places are likely to be available
Girls / boys
185 / 46
Overall absence
13%

secondary schools average 8.6%

Persistently absent
42%

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

Free school meals, last 6 years
30%

England 25.7%

English as an additional language
10%

England 18.7%

With an EHC plan
1%

England 3.5%

On SEN support
15%

England 15%

What pupils do next

After GCSEs

In education, work or training
88%

England 91.4%

Stayed in education
78%

England 85.4%

Started an apprenticeship
3%

England 3.5%

Stayed at this school's sixth form
28%
No sustained destination
8%

England 5.8%

Pupils in the cohort
74

After sixth form

Went to university
46%

England 50%

In education, work or training
85%

England 84.3%

Started an apprenticeship
6%

England 6.5%

Students in the cohort
65

Going on to university 2021/22 leavers

Went to a top third university

7% 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
57%

England 65.3%

Students in the cohort
61

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 Plymouth 024B, 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
28%

England 33.8%

Adults with no qualifications
21%

England 18.3%

Households owning their home
40%

England 62.7%

Households in social housing
32%

England 17%

Households with no car
37%

England 21.9%

Adults economically inactive
42%

England 39.9%

School details

Type
Studio schools
Phase
Secondary
Ages
Ages 13–19
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None
Sixth form
Yes
Nursery
No
Boarding
Day school
Trust
GREENSHAW LEARNING TRUST
Headteacher
Headteacher: Anita Frier
Local authority
Plymouth
Ward
Stoke
Constituency
Plymouth Sutton and Devonport
URN
144760

The unique reference number used in all official school data.

Nearest secondary schools

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8Distance
Stoke Damerel Community CollegeAcademy converter No grade 35.9 0 mi
Devonport High School for BoysAcademy converter Good 2023 69.3 0.5 mi
UTC PlymouthUniversity technical college Good 2023 36.4 0.8 mi
Devonport High School for GirlsAcademy converter No grade 73.8 0.9 mi
Millbay AcademyFree schools Good 2024 36.9 0.9 mi
Plymouth CollegeOther independent school No grade 1 mi
Plymouth High School for GirlsAcademy converter Good 2024 65.5 1 mi
All Saints Church of England AcademyAcademy sponsor led Good 2023 41.4 1.4 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
Westhoughton High SchoolCommunity school No grade 44.4
Purbrook Park SchoolFoundation school Good 2023 47.7
Hodgson AcademyAcademy converter Good 2022 49.5
West Somerset CollegeAcademy converter No grade 41.2
St Alban's Catholic High SchoolAcademy converter No grade 46.9
The Westgate SchoolAcademy converter No grade 40.6
Devizes SchoolAcademy converter No grade 45.3
Chetwynde SchoolFree schools Good 2023 44.2

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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