Okehampton College, Okehampton

Ofsted's report card from its 27 January 2026 inspection grades Okehampton College on 7 areas: 3 expected standard and 4 needs attention. Report cards replaced single-word judgements in November 2025, on a five-point scale from exceptional to urgent improvement.

Achievement - Expected standard. "Pupils, including those who are disadvantaged, typically build their knowledge and skills well as they progress through the school."

Leadership and governance - Expected standard. "Leaders have stabilised the school following a period of turbulence."

Personal development and wellbeing - Expected standard. "Leaders have designed a suitable and coherent personal development programme."

Attendance and behaviour - Needs attention. "Pupils' attendance is generally well below the national average, and rates of persistent absence are high."

Curriculum and teaching - Needs attention. "Teaching is not adapted effectively enough for some pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities."

Inclusion - Needs attention. "The planning and implementation of support for pupils with barriers to learning is not precise enough."

Post 16 provision - Needs attention. "Students do not achieve well enough in the post-16 provision."

Safeguarding standards were met.

Ofsted's next steps for the school: "Leaders should ensure that levels of absence and persistent absence, particularly for pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND), reduce further, so that pupils maximise their opportunities for learning and benefit from the school's wider opportunities"; "Leaders should ensure that they provide effective support to improve the behaviour of pupils, including those who face barriers to their learning and/or wellbeing"; "Leaders should ensure that effective curriculum and teaching adaptations are made for all pupils with SEND so that they achieve well and thrive"; "Leaders should ensure that teachers have the expertise they need to quickly close any gaps that pupils have in their basic reading, handwriting and mathematics skills".

In 2026, pupils at Okehampton College averaged an Attainment 8 score of 45.3, the average grade across their best eight GCSEs. The average state school scored 46.2 in Devon and 47 across England.

43% passed English and maths at grade 5 or above, against 45% in Devon and 47% in England.

That is up from 43.2 in 2025.

Its most recent Progress 8 score, for 2024, was -0.24: pupils made below average progress compared with pupils nationally who started secondary school at the same level. Progress 8 was not published for 2026.

Disadvantaged pupils averaged an Attainment 8 of 37.5, against 47.6 for other pupils at the school - a gap of 10.1 points.

Pupils sat GCSEs in 23 subjects; after English and maths, the most popular were Combined Science, Geography and History.

For September 2026 entry, 176 families put Okehampton College as their first choice and 190 named it as one of their preferences, for 181 places offered. It had fewer first-choice applications than places. Every family who put it first was offered a place there for 2026 entry.

Okehampton College is one of 19 schools run by Dartmoor Multi Academy Trust, an academy trust.

Across the trust's secondary schools, pupils averaged an Attainment 8 score of 41.9 in 2024/25.

299 parents answered Ofsted's Parent View survey about Okehampton College (as of April 2026): 43% would recommend the school, 43% say their child is happy there and 30% of those with a view say bullying is dealt with well.

The strongest agreement was that their child feels safe (46%); the weakest, that pupils behave well (28%).

Of the 229 pupils who finished Year 11 in 2023/24, 78% stayed in education or training for at least two terms, including 54% to a further education college, 6% to an apprenticeship and 5% into work.

Of the 56 students who left the sixth form in 2023/24, 41% went on to university or other higher education, 4% to apprenticeships and 34% into work. 17% went to one of the most selective third of universities.

4.6% speak English as an additional language, against 18.8% on average, according to the 2026 school census.

The nearest railway station is Okehampton Rail Station, about 520 metres away (roughly a 7-minute walk).

8 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Okehampton College (ne-bound), 60 metres away.

In August 2026, police recorded 61 crimes within a mile of the school, most often violence and sexual offences, shoplifting and other theft. That is well above the typical figure around schools in Devon (16), as is usual near a town centre.

In 2024/25, Okehampton College issued 761 suspensions, 66.9 for every 100 pupils (the average state school: 6.3), and 2 permanent exclusions.

The primary schools closest to Okehampton College are Okehampton Primary School and Foundation Unit (0.5 miles) and St James Church of England Primary and Nursery School (0.8 miles). Admission does not depend on which primary a child attends unless the school's policy names feeder schools.