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Secondary school in Plymouth

Sir John Hunt Community Sports College

Lancaster Gardens, Whitleigh, Plymouth, Devon, PL5 4AA

Ofsted Good · 2022 Sixth form
School website 01752201020

Ofsted

Goodas at 21 September 2022

Graded Good at its last graded inspection, on 21 September 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

39.8 England 47

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

Grade 5+ in English & maths

29% England 46.2%

Grade 4+ in English & maths

44% England 66.2%

EBacc average point score

3.3 England 4.2

Entered the EBacc

2% England 40.8%

On Attainment 8 this school is in the bottom quarter of state-funded secondaries in England.

Compared with the fifth of schools whose intake is second most disadvantaged, which is where this one sits, it is in the lower half.

Progress 8 2023/24

-0.10confidence interval -0.34 to 0.15

Taking that range into account, progress was not statistically different from the national average. DfE bands this as 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
C+
Average points per entry
33.3

England average 32.3

A level students
22

Pupils

Pupils on roll
760
Places
890
How full
85% full — 760 of 890 places taken
Girls / boys
381 / 379
Overall absence
12%

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
44%

England 25.7%

English as an additional language
4%

England 18.7%

With an EHC plan
2%

England 3.5%

On SEN support
19%

England 15%

What pupils do next

After GCSEs

In education, work or training
88%

England 91.4%

Stayed in education
76%

England 85.4%

Started an apprenticeship
10%

England 3.5%

Stayed at this school's sixth form
25%
No sustained destination
7%

England 5.8%

Pupils in the cohort
131

After sixth form

Went to university
31%

England 50%

In education, work or training
74%

England 84.3%

Started an apprenticeship
11%

England 6.5%

Students in the cohort
54

Going on to university 2021/22 leavers

Went to a top third university

10% 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
39%

England 65.3%

Students in the cohort
31

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 007A, 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
19%

England 33.8%

Adults with no qualifications
24%

England 18.3%

Households owning their home
33%

England 62.7%

Households in social housing
54%

England 17%

Households with no car
40%

England 21.9%

Adults economically inactive
46%

England 39.9%

School details

Type
Foundation school
Phase
Secondary
Ages
Ages 11–19
Gender
Mixed
Admissions
Non-selective
Religious character
None
Sixth form
Yes
Nursery
No
Boarding
Day school
Headteacher
Principal: Julie Bevan
Local authority
Plymouth
Ward
Budshead
Constituency
Plymouth Moor View
URN
113533

The unique reference number used in all official school data.

Nearest secondary schools

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8Distance
Notre Dame RC SchoolAcademy converter No grade 43.3 0.8 mi
St Boniface's RC CollegeAcademy sponsor led No grade 39 1 mi
All Saints Church of England AcademyAcademy sponsor led Good 2023 41.4 1.3 mi
Eggbuckland Community CollegeAcademy converter Requires improvement 2024 42.3 1.6 mi
Marine Academy PlymouthAcademy sponsor led Good 2024 43.6 1.6 mi
Devonport High School for GirlsAcademy converter No grade 73.8 1.8 mi
Tor Bridge HighAcademy converter Good 2021 40.4 2 mi
Plymouth CollegeOther independent school No grade 2.4 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
Enfield County School for GirlsCommunity school Good 2023 52
Holy Family Catholic SchoolVoluntary aided school Good 2023 45.5
Baysgarth SchoolCommunity school Good 2023 40.9
Oasis Academy MayfieldAcademy sponsor led Good 2024 37
Mulberry Academy HastingsAcademy sponsor led No grade 38.2
Consett AcademyAcademy sponsor led Good 2023 44.2
George Mitchell SchoolAcademy converter Good 2023 47
Heathcote School & Science CollegeCommunity school Good 2024 46.1

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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