The School Record

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

Okehampton College

URN 145337 · Secondary · Academy converter · Devon

Mill Road, Okehampton, EX20 1PW

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, 181 families named Okehampton College as their first preference, and the school made 190 offers.

That is 0.95 first preferences per place offered, which places it above 48% of schools admitting at Year 7 in England that year.

More first preferences per place than 48% of comparable schools position among schools in England admitting at Year 7, 2025 intake

Little change. Across the 5 most recent years held, first preferences per place averaged 1.0 in 2021–2022 and 0.91 in 2024–2025.

Applications and offers at Year 7, 8 intake years
Intake 1st preferences All preferences Offers made 1st prefs per place
2025 181 194 190 0.95
2024 177 212 204 0.87
2023 202 223 209 0.97
2022 225 248 227 0.99
2021 253 283 249 1.02
2020 243 271 246 0.99
2019 252 285 254 0.99
2018 244 270 246 0.99

“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 inspections from 2023 to 202620232026

Ofsted report card (current framework), 27 January 2026

Safeguarding: Met

Inclusion: Needs attention

Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention

Achievement: Expected standard

Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention

Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard

Sixth form / post-16: Needs attention

Leadership and governance: Expected standard

The current framework does not award an overall grade.

Ofsted's report for this school

Ofsted graded inspection (previous framework), 16 May 2023

Overall effectiveness: Requires improvement

Quality of education: Requires improvement

Behaviour and attitudes: Requires improvement

Personal development: Requires improvement

Leadership and management: Requires improvement

Early years: 9

Sixth form / post-16: Requires improvement

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 43.20 - 61.2% 12.4%
2023/24 43.60 -0.24
likely between -0.43 and -0.05
62.4% 19.2%
2022/23 46.00 -0.18
likely between -0.36 and 0.00
67.2% 18.0%

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.

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 71.3 59.5 5.5 6.4 16.7%
2023/24 78.1 55.7 15.8 6.6 28.7%
2022/23 81.4 63.7 11.2 6.5 21.7%
2021/22 85.7 65.4 8.4 11.9 23.7%
2020/21 88.1 71.3 7.6 9.2 19.1%
2019/20 85.6 76.8 6.0 2.8 10.3%

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 (Okehampton College).

Covers: 1,191 live postcodes across 617.008 km².

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

7 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 Okehampton 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 3 nearest secondary schools we hold figures for, by straight-line distance from Okehampton College.

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.