Queen Elizabeth's, Crediton

Ofsted's report card from its 12 May 2026 inspection grades Queen Elizabeth's on 7 areas: 6 expected standard and 1 needs attention. Report cards replaced single-word judgements in November 2025, on a five-point scale from exceptional to urgent improvement.

Achievement - Expected standard. "Most pupils achieve well across the curriculum with pupils' attainment at the end of key stage 4 broadly in line with national figures."

Attendance and behaviour - Expected standard. "Most pupils attend school regularly."

Curriculum and teaching - Expected standard. "The curriculum is coherently sequenced across all subjects."

Inclusion - Expected standard. "Leaders have a robust grasp of the barriers that affect pupils' learning."

Leadership and governance - Expected standard. "Leaders have a clear and accurate understanding of the school's strengths and areas that require further development."

Personal development and wellbeing - Expected standard. "The well-designed personal, social, health education (PSHE) curriculum helps pupils to develop a thoughtful and well-informed understanding of citizenship, both within the school and in the wider community."

Post 16 provision - Needs attention. "Students' outcomes in A levels have been below what is typical nationally over time."

Safeguarding standards were met.

Ofsted's next steps for the school: "The school should ensure that teachers make effective and consistent use of information about what pupils know and do not know to adapt the teaching of the curriculum, so that pupils can deepen their understanding and write about their learning with greater accuracy and detail"; "The school should ensure that teachers assess sixth-form students' starting points with greater precision so they can design learning activities that deepen understanding and enable students to achieve more highly in A-level examinations".

In 2026, pupils at Queen Elizabeth's averaged an Attainment 8 score of 47.4, the average grade across their best eight GCSEs. The average state school scored 46.2 in Devon and 47 across England.

50% passed English and maths at grade 5 or above, against 45% in Devon and 47% in England.

That is up from 46.2 in 2025.

Its most recent Progress 8 score, for 2024, was 0.22: pupils made above 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 38.6, against 49.9 for other pupils at the school - a gap of 11.3 points.

Pupils sat GCSEs in 25 subjects; after English and maths, the most popular were French, Combined Science and Geography.

For September 2026 entry, 141 families put Queen Elizabeth's as their first choice and 190 named it as one of their preferences, for 154 places offered. It had fewer first-choice applications than places. Every family who put it first was offered a place there for 2026 entry.

Queen Elizabeth's is one of 18 schools run by The Ted Wragg Multi Academy Trust, an academy trust.

Across the trust's secondary schools, pupils averaged an Attainment 8 score of 45.6 in 2024/25.

Of the 193 pupils who finished Year 11 in 2023/24, 83% stayed in education or training for at least two terms, including 62% to a further education college, 7% to an apprenticeship and 3% into work.

Of the 67 students who left the sixth form in 2023/24, 37% went on to university or other higher education, 8% to apprenticeships and 28% into work. 23% went to one of the most selective third of universities.

4.3% speak English as an additional language, against 18.8% on average, according to the 2026 school census.

In 2026, 200 pupils (18.2%) received SEN support and 30 (2.7%) had an education, health and care plan, against 16.2% and 4.6% at the average state school. The most common need among them is social, emotional and mental health needs.

Queen Elizabeth's has a resourced provision for specific learning difficulties such as dyslexia.

The nearest railway station is Crediton Rail Station, about 1 mile away in a straight line.

13 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is St Lawences Green (e-bound), 50 metres away.

In August 2026, police recorded 45 crimes within a mile of the school, most often violence and sexual offences, shoplifting and criminal damage and arson. That is well above the typical figure around schools in Devon (16), as is usual near a town centre.

In 2024/25, Queen Elizabeth's issued 124 suspensions, 10.9 for every 100 pupils (the average state school: 6.3), and 2 permanent exclusions.

The primary schools closest to Queen Elizabeth's are Landscore Primary School (0.3 miles), Hayward's Primary School (0.7 miles) and Sandford School (1.3 miles). Admission does not depend on which primary a child attends unless the school's policy names feeder schools.