The School Record

Exmouth Community College

Secondary school · Devon

Gipsy Lane, Exmouth, EX8 3AF

This school became an academy on 1 April 2011. Before that it was a community school, under its earlier school number, URN 113504.

About the school

Type of school
Academy
Academy trust
The Ted Wragg Multi Academy Trust
Became an academy
1 April 2011. Before that it was a community school, under its earlier school number, URN 113504.
Ages
11 to 18
Boys or girls
Boys and girls
Sixth form
Yes
Website
http://exmouthcollege.org/
Telephone
01395 264761
School number (URN)
136612

Other schools run by The Ted Wragg Multi Academy Trust

The Ted Wragg Multi Academy Trust runs 16 other schools with a page here. These are the 10 nearest.

From Get Information about Schools, retrieved 2 September 2026. Schools update their own entries, so these can be out of date.

How big the school is

In 2024 this school had 2,650 places and 2,088 children on roll.

562 places were unfilled, which is 21% of the school.

In 2018, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023 the school had 2,195 children on roll on average, against 2,088 in 2024.

Its places have grown from 2,410 in 2009 to 2,650 in 2024.

Places are the whole school added up, every year group together. That is not the number of places a school offers to new children in one year.

Source: Department for Education school capacity collection.

Children in each year group

As counted on one day in January 2026, the most recent school census. These are children, not places.

Children in each year group at Exmouth Community College

Y7 378, Y8 342, Y9 365, Y10 392, Y11 335, Y12 109, Y13 110378Y7342Y8365Y9392Y10335Y11109Y12110Y13
Source: Department for Education school census, January 2026.
Year groupChildren
Year 7 378
Year 8 342
Year 9 365
Year 10 392
Year 11 335
Year 12 109
Year 13 110

This is not a list of spare places. Places per year group are not published, and the count is from January. Children join and leave all year, so a year group that looked two under in January can be full by March.

If you are moving into the area and need a place during the school year, ask Devon. Councils handle applications made during the school year, including for schools that set their own admission rules. They hold the up-to-date position, which this page does not.

Who decides who gets a place

This school sets its own admission rules, through its academy trust, rather than Devon setting them.

Look on the school's own website for its admission arrangements. An admission authority has to agree its rules every year and publish them. The council still takes the application.

Taken from the kind of school this is, as recorded by the Department for Education. We do not hold this school's rules themselves: a summary of an admission rule is not the rule, and only the admission authority's own published arrangements are binding.

How to apply

Applications for a place starting in September 2027 closed on 31 October 2026, unless your council set a later date.

That is a Saturday, and some councils accept applications until the next working day. Your council's website gives its own closing date.

Councils send every offer for secondary school places on the same day, 1 March 2027 or the next working day.

An application made after the closing date is what the rules call a late application. It is still a normal application and the council still handles it, but it is dealt with after the ones that arrived on time, so it does not get an answer on the day above.

You apply through the council where you live, even for a school in another area. You do not apply to the school. Find your council's secondary school application on GOV.UK.

If you live in Devon, the council's own page explains how to apply there. Devon school admissions.

To ask about visiting the school, or anything else about it, contact the school. Website: http://exmouthcollege.org/. Telephone: 01395 264761.

Links and dates can change. Your council's own website has the final word. The dates are set nationally by the School Admissions Code 2021. GOV.UK link checked 23 September 2026. Devon's page checked 23 September 2026. Contact details from Get Information about Schools.

How many families applied

Preferences expressed and offers made at Year 7, as published by the Department for Education. These describe demand, not whether a particular child would be offered a place.

In the 2026 intake, 329 families named Exmouth Community College as their first preference, and the school made 337 offers.

That is 0.98 first preferences per place offered, higher than 56% of schools admitting at Year 7 in England that year.

More first preferences per place than 56% of comparable schools
Position among schools in England admitting at Year 7, 2026 intake.

Little change in first preferences per place. Across the 5 most recent years held, first preferences per place averaged 0.96 in 2022–2023 and 0.95 in 2025–2026.

First preferences for this school changed little, from 368 a year in 2022–2023 to 342 in 2025–2026. Across all 40 schools in Devon admitting at Year 7, first preferences changed little over the same years, from 7,290 to 6,736.

Counts of families, not places.

Across Devon as a whole, 93.3% of families applying for a secondary place for September 2026 were offered their first choice, and 98.4% were offered one of the three schools they named. That is a figure for the council, not for this school. How the 2026 round went in Devon.

Compared with its own past

About the same number of families as its recent average put this school first.

In 2026, 329 families put this school first. In 2021 to 2025 the average was 351 a year.

In 2026, 367 families named this school somewhere on their list. In 2021 to 2025 the average was 400 a year.

In 2026, every family who put this school first was offered a place here (329 of 329). In 2021 to 2025 it was 99 in every 100.

In 2026, 0 of the 337 offers went to children living outside Devon. In 2021 to 2025 the average was 0 a year.

Each figure is compared only with the same figure at this school. "About the same" means within 10 in every 100 of the average.

First preferences and offers at Year 7

Families naming Exmouth Community College first, against the offers it made, for every intake year held.

First preferences from 365 in 2014 to 329 in 2026; Offers made from 384 in 2014 to 337 in 20263203403603804002014201620182020202220242026Offers made337First preferences329
Source: Department for Education, school-level applications and offers. Preferences count families. Offers count places given out on offer day. The vertical axis does not start at zero.
Applications and offers at Year 7, 13 intake years
Intake 1st preferences1st choice All preferencesAny choice Offers madeOffers 1st prefs per placePer place
2026 329 367 337 0.98
2025 355 407 382 0.93
2024 335 374 350 0.96
2023 354 410 364 0.97
2022 381 421 398 0.96
2021 329 389 359 0.92
2020 364 419 395 0.92
2019 383 435 396 0.97
2018 390 422 397 0.98
2017 365 395 377 0.97
2016 379 419 395 0.96
2015 356 393 363 0.98
2014 365 416 384 0.95

“Offers made” is the number of offers on offer day, not the number of places the school has.

Source: Department for Education: school-level applications and offers, checked 14 September 2026. All sources.

Where families put this school on their list

In 2026 this school made 337 offers: 329 to families who had named it first and 3 to families who named it second.

5 offers went to families who named it fourth or lower, or who were admitted another way.

A school is not allowed to treat a family differently because of where it sat on their list. The School Admissions Code says an admission authority must not give extra priority to children whose parents rank preferred schools in a particular order.

The order is used at the end, by the council, and not by the school. Where more than one school could take a child, the council offers the one the family put highest.

Leaving the other boxes empty does not change how this school considers an application. If none of the schools a family names can offer a place, the council has to offer one at a school that has room, and that school may be further away.

Source: Department for Education school level applications and offers, and the School Admissions Code 2021, paragraphs 1.9 and 2.11.

Ofsted

Ofsted changed its inspection framework: the current one publishes several graded areas and no single overall grade, while the previous one published an overall effectiveness grade. Each inspection below states which framework produced it.

Ofsted graded inspection (previous framework), 20 February 2024

Overall effectiveness
Requires improvement
Quality of education
Requires improvement
Behaviour and attitudes
Requires improvement
Personal development
Good
Leadership and management
Good
Sixth form / post-16
Good

Ofsted's report for this school

Source: Ofsted: state-funded school inspections management information, checked 14 September 2026. All sources.

If you are refused a place

In 2026, families in Devon lodged 66 appeals about a secondary school place.

48 of them were heard by a panel and 10 succeeded, which is about 21 in every 100 heard.

The other 18 did not reach a panel. Most appeals that do not are withdrawn because a place comes up first.

This is a record of decisions already made. A panel hears one case at a time and decides it on what that family sets out, so these figures do not indicate what would happen in any particular appeal.

These count appeals about every school in Devon, not this school. Nobody publishes appeal figures school by school.

Source: Department for Education, admission appeals in England, reporting year 2026.

Waiting lists

Being refused a place does not end the application. Every admission authority has to keep a waiting list until at least 31 December of the school year the child would have started, and some keep them for longer.

A waiting list is not a queue. The rules say a child cannot be given priority for having joined it earlier, or for having applied earlier. The list is put back in order against the school's own admission rules every time a child is added, so a place can move further away as well as nearer.

Councils differ on whether a refused child goes onto the list automatically. The council that sent the refusal is the only place that can say which it does.

From the School Admissions Code 2021, paragraph 2.15.

Children with special educational needs

In January 2026, 108 of the 2,031 children here had an education, health and care plan. That is 5 in every 100. Across schools in England the middle figure is 4 in every 100.

A further 343 were on SEN support, which is help arranged by the school without a plan. That is 17 in every 100, against a middle figure of 15 in every 100 across England.

A school named in a child's education, health and care plan has to admit that child. That duty holds even when the school is full, and it sits outside the rules that decide who gets a place when there are more children than places. Which school is named is decided with the council while the plan is being written, not through the normal application.

Source: Department for Education, special educational needs in England, January 2026 census.

Who goes to this school

In January 2026, 493 of the 2,031 children here were known to be eligible for free school meals. That is 24 in every 100.

Fewer children are eligible here than at half of secondary schools in England, where the middle figure is 27 in every 100.

English was not the first language for 6 in every 100 children here. Across secondary schools the middle figure is 12 in every 100.

This describes the children who go to this school. It is not a measure of the school. Most children go to a school near home, so it is mostly a fact about the streets around it.

This matters when reading results. Across the 3,610 schools we hold 2024 key stage 4 results for, the fifth with the fewest eligible children averaged 81% getting grade 4 or above in English and maths. The fifth with the most averaged 35%.

Those are averages of many schools all over the country. This school's own results are further down this page exactly as published.

Source: Department for Education school census, January 2026. Free school meal eligibility is counted for every pupil on roll.

Exam results

Published by the Department for Education for the whole year group. Figures for smaller cohorts are withheld by DfE to protect pupil privacy and appear here as a dash, not a zero.

Key stage 4: what these numbers are made of

Getting grade 4 or above in English and maths.

Across the 3 years published, this measure ran from 58.6% in 2022 to 63% in 2024, a difference of 4.4 points.

The year group had 365 children, so one child is worth about 0.3 percentage points and that difference is about 15 children.

Half of schools in England move by 6 points or more across the same three years, so movement on this scale is ordinary rather than a sign of anything.

Key stage 4 (GCSE)
YearAttainment 8Progress 8 Grade 4+ English & mathsEBacc grade 4+
2024/25 46.10 - 63.0% 15.9%
2023/24 43.60 -0.39
likely between -0.54 and -0.24		 61.6% 21.3%
2022/23 41.80 -0.60
likely between -0.75 and -0.45		 58.6% 16.1%

Progress 8 compares pupils here with pupils nationally who had similar results at the end of primary school; 0 is average. It is an estimate, and DfE publishes a range it is likely to fall within. Where that range spans zero, the school cannot be said to be above or below average.

Teachers staying and leaving

These come from the School Workforce Census, which follows each teacher into the next year. The numbers count full-time jobs, so a teacher who works half the week counts as half. They are not a count of people.

The share of teachers who left, each year

Counted as full-time jobs rather than people, and counting a move to another state school as leaving this one.

2019 7.0%, 2020 7.6%, 2021 11.1%, 2022 17.5%, 2023 15.8%, 2024 18.8%7.0%20197.6%202011.1%202117.5%202215.8%202318.8%2024
Source: Department for Education, School Workforce Census. The year shown is the census year; leaving is measured by where the teacher was a year later. A small school's figure moves a long way on one or two people.
Census yearTeachers (FTE) Still there a year later Moved to another state school Left state schools Left in total
2024/25 112.8 91.6 4.7 16.5 18.8%
2023/24 119.8 100.8 7.5 11.4 15.8%
2022/23 129.5 106.8 11.2 11.5 17.5%
2021/22 128.8 114.5 4.1 10.2 11.1%
2020/21 128.6 118.8 1.0 8.8 7.6%
2019/20 123.9 115.2 4.0 4.7 7.0%

This is turnover among teachers. It says nothing about the headteacher or the senior leadership team: DfE publishes leadership retention separately and we do not hold it by school.

Catchment area

Devon publishes an admission zone for this school (Exmouth Community College).

Covers: 1,532 live postcodes across 79.829 km².

3 of the postcodes in this zone sit within 50 m of its edge. We place an address by its postcode centroid, not the address itself, so for those a specific house may fall the other side of the line.

Where it is, and schools nearby

The shaded shape is the area the council published for Exmouth Community College. Living inside it is not the same as being offered a place. Councils use these areas in different ways. Some use them to help decide who gets a place when a school is full. Some use them to decide who gets free school transport. Many use them for both. Check with the council which it is here. The edge is drawn to about 20 metres, so do not use it to judge a single house.

The 6 nearest secondary schools we hold figures for, by straight-line distance from Exmouth Community College.

Nearby and related

Where these figures come from

Using this information

This is information only, not advice. It may have mistakes in it, or be out of date. Check with the school and the council before you decide anything. We collect these figures from official publications and check them, but mistakes can get through. If you find one, tell us.

Figures current as of 14 September 2026.

This page was updated on 5 November 2026. "Retrieved" is the date of our copy of each source, not the year its figures describe. How we compare schools.