The School Record

Published admissions and inspection figures for schools in England, from the DfE, Ofsted and local authorities.

Coombeshead Academy

URN 137176 · Secondary · Academy converter · Devon

Coombeshead Road, Newton Abbot, TQ12 1PT

How many families applied

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

In the 2025 intake, 185 families named Coombeshead Academy as their first preference, and the school made 196 offers.

That is 0.94 first preferences per place offered, which places it above 46% of schools admitting at Year 7 in England that year.

More first preferences per place than 46% of comparable schools position among schools in England admitting at Year 7, 2025 intake

More families are naming it first. Across the 5 most recent years held, first preferences per place averaged 0.67 in 2021–2022 and 0.93 in 2024–2025.

Applications and offers at Year 7, 12 intake years
Intake 1st preferences All preferences Offers made 1st prefs per place
2025 185 325 196 0.94
2024 183 376 201 0.91
2023 141 329 191 0.74
2022 128 328 162 0.79
2021 92 310 167 0.55
2020 162 312 204 0.79
2019 131 282 149 0.88
2018 153 308 170 0.90
2017 177 310 197 0.90
2016 183 356 196 0.93
2015 140 258 146 0.96
2014 125 234 135 0.93

“Offers made” counts the offers the school made. It is not the number of places the school had, so please do not read it as one.

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), 28 February 2023

Overall effectiveness: Good

Quality of education: Good

Behaviour and attitudes: Good

Personal development: Good

Leadership and management: Good

Early years: 9

Sixth form / post-16: Good

Ofsted's report for this school

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 (GCSE)
YearAttainment 8Progress 8 Grade 4+ English & mathsEBacc grade 4+
2024/25 46.80 - 69.9% 31.9%
2023/24 43.80 -0.12
likely between -0.39 and 0.14		 65.2% 23.2%
2022/23 42.00 -0.20
likely between -0.43 and 0.03		 60.0% 17.9%

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.

Census yearTeachers (FTE) Still there a year later Moved to another state school Left state schools Left in total
2024/25 55.6 49.2 3.0 3.4 11.5%
2023/24 54.8 49.5 1.8 3.5 9.7%
2022/23 59.7 48.2 3.7 7.7 19.1%
2021/22 62.6 52.3 5.0 5.3 16.5%
2020/21 64.1 53.5 3.8 6.8 16.5%
2019/20 59.6 56.0 3.6 0.0 6.0%

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 (Coombeshead Academy (part)).

Covers: 695 live postcodes across 47.170 km².

This zone overlaps others. An address here may also fall inside the catchment of Newton Abbot College. Being in this catchment does not mean being in only this one.

247 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.

Devon publishes an admission zone for this school (Coombeshead Academy (part)).

Covers: 536 live postcodes across 18.799 km².

This zone overlaps others. An address here may also fall inside the catchment of Newton Abbot College. Being in this catchment does not mean being in only this one.

63 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.

The school building sits outside this area. Sometimes that is normal, because the area is drawn around the streets a school serves rather than around the school itself. But it can also mean the area has been joined to the wrong school. Treat it with care.

Where it is

The shaded shape is the area the council published for Coombeshead Academy. 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 Coombeshead Academy.

Nearby and related

Where these figures come from

This page was made on 9 September 2026. "Retrieved" means the day we downloaded the data. It is not the day the data was written, so the figures can be about an earlier year. How we compare schools.