The School Record

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

Cranbrook Education Campus

URN 141514 · All Through · Academy sponsor led · Devon

Tillhouse Road, Exeter, EX5 7EE

Figures current as of 5 September 2026, the day we last checked a source behind this page.

How many families applied

Preferences expressed and offers made at Reception, 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, 70 families named Cranbrook Education Campus as their first preference, and the school made 61 offers.

That is 1.15 first preferences per place offered, which places it above 87% of schools admitting at Reception in England that year.

More first preferences per place than 87% of comparable schools position among schools in England admitting at Reception, 2025 intake

Little change. Across the 5 most recent years held, first preferences per place averaged 1.03 in 2021–2022 and 1.09 in 2024–2025.

Applications and offers at Reception, 11 intake years
Intake 1st preferences All preferences Offers made 1st prefs per place
2025 70 105 61 1.15
2024 62 81 60 1.03
2023 55 90 60 0.92
2022 59 83 57 1.04
2021 62 90 60 1.03
2020 87 111 74 1.18
2019 73 111 60 1.22
2018 58 73 58 1.00
2017 50 79 50 1.00
2016 32 69 35 0.91
2015 1 8 4 -

“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.

Source: Department for Education: school-level applications and offers, checked 4 September 2026. All sources.

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), 21 May 2024

Overall effectiveness: Good

Quality of education: Good

Behaviour and attitudes: Good

Personal development: Good

Leadership and management: Good

Early years: Good

Sixth form / post-16: 9

Ofsted's report for this school

Source: Ofsted: state-funded school inspections management information, checked 4 September 2026. All sources.

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 46.00 - 68.8% 35.1%
2023/24 45.40 0.22
likely between -0.16 and 0.59		 65.0% 33.3%
2022/23 45.20 0.05
likely between -0.35 and 0.44		 58.0% 34.0%

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.

Key stage 2 (end of primary)
Year Expected standard in reading, writing & maths Higher standard Average reading score Average maths score
2024/25 66.0% 2.0% 104.0 102.0
2023/24 67.0% 8.0% 104.0 104.0
2022/23 51.0% 8.0% 103.0 103.0

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 50.4 45.4 1.8 3.2 9.9%
2023/24 49.0 40.8 2.4 5.8 16.7%
2022/23 44.6 37.6 2.0 5.0 15.7%
2021/22 42.3 31.4 6.0 4.9 25.8%
2020/21 41.9 30.7 8.6 2.6 26.7%
2019/20 41.4 35.2 1.0 5.2 15.0%

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 (Cranbrook Education Campus).

Covers: 176 live postcodes across 2.686 km².

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

17 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

The shaded shape is the area the council published for Cranbrook Education Campus. 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 1 nearest all through schools we hold figures for, by straight-line distance from Cranbrook Education Campus.

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.