Teignmouth Community School, Exeter Road

Teignmouth Community School is a secondary comprehensive with a sixth form and is part of the Ivy Education Trust. Inspected in October 2024 after a previous inadequate judgement, it has made rapid improvements: personal development, leadership and management, and sixth-form provision are good, while the quality of education and behaviour and attitudes still require improvement. Safeguarding is effective, and the school’s shared ambition is for pupils and staff to be ‘the best version of themselves’.

Strengths

• Broad, ambitious curriculum has been significantly improved across the school.
• Sixth-form curriculum offers relevant courses and strong personal development and application support.
• Reading is a priority, with weakest readers identified and supported to catch up.
• Personal, social and health education is well revised and prepares pupils for adult life.
• Careers education, advice and guidance are effective, including individual sixth-form support.
• Staff workload and well-being are considered, with extensive training and coaching.
• Governance engages parents, and many recognise the improvements made.
• Safeguarding arrangements are effective.
• Pupils benefit from trips, leadership opportunities, productions and sports.

Areas for Improvement

• Assessment does not precisely identify pupils’ gaps or starting points, so support and challenge are not always well matched.
• Teachers lack sufficient information and training to adapt the curriculum for pupils with SEND.
• Behaviour expectations are higher, but some pupils struggle to adapt and suspensions remain high.
• Incidents of bullying and unacceptable behaviour are not always resolved swiftly enough.
• Attendance remains below the national average despite small improvements.
• Some pupils are not moved on to more challenging work quickly enough when ready.
• Key stage 4 achievement still needs to improve to match sixth-form outcomes.

Admissions: local authority offers data from the Department for Education. A school is oversubscribed when at least 5% of the families who put it first were not offered a place, and undersubscribed when everyone who put it first got in but 10% or more of its places were unfilled in the Department's school capacity survey (the latest survey is used for entry years it does not cover). Places: Department for Education, School capacity, from local authorities' annual survey as at 1 May. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024–25); the survey was not run in 2020. Places include sixth form places. Forecasts are the local authority's own for the school's planning area, an area it uses to plan places that is not the school's catchment area. The forecast starts from a head count in 2025; the dashed line is the Department's estimate of places in that area, including those the authority has firm plans for. Planned places are cumulative, and only those with firm plans are counted.

In 2024–25 pupils at Teignmouth Community School, Exeter Road attended 89.0% of sessions (the national figure for secondary schools was 91.6%). 31.2% of pupils were persistently absent, missing at least one session in ten (nationally 23.4%).

Sessions missed

Pupils persistently absent

Source: Department for Education, Pupil absence in schools in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). Persistent absence means missing 10% or more of sessions; severe absence means 50% or more. No figures were published for 2019/20.

In 2024–25, 12.4% of pupils at Teignmouth Community School, Exeter Road were suspended at least once (nationally 7.3%). 10 pupils were permanently excluded.

Pupils suspended at least once

Source: Department for Education, Suspensions and permanent exclusions in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). A pupil can be suspended more than once, so suspensions per 100 pupils can be higher than the share of pupils suspended. Very small numbers are hidden by the DfE. Exclusion figures dropped in 2020 and 2021 because of school closures.

In 2025–26 Teignmouth Community School, Exeter Road had 15.2 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for secondary schools was 16.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 16.1% were no longer at the school a year later (nationally 14.1%).

Pupils per teacher

Teachers who left the school within a year

Source: Department for Education, School workforce in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). Pupils per teacher counts full-time-equivalent pupils and teachers. Turnover is the share of a year's teachers (full-time equivalent) who were not at the school the following year, whether they moved to another school or left state-funded teaching. Turnover and sickness figures run one year behind the ratios. Sick leave is the share of teachers who took at least one day in the year, so it swings widely at small schools, where a few teachers can make it 0% or 100%. The national figures are for all state schools of the same type.

In 2025–26, 9.5% of pupils at Teignmouth Community School, Exeter Road were on SEN support (nationally 14.1%) and 2.5% had an education, health and care (EHC) plan (nationally 3.5%).

Pupils by main type of need

Source: Department for Education, Special educational needs in England (the 2025–26 school census). SEN support is extra help in school without an EHC plan. National figures are for all state-funded secondary schools. Counts are as published, with small numbers not hidden.

In 2024–25 Teignmouth Community School, Exeter Road received £8,997 and spent £8,710 for each of its 832 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £122,000 (£146 per pupil).

Across all 8 schools of Ivy Education Trust, income was £8,017 and spending £8,030 per pupil.

Income per pupil

Spending per pupil

Source: Department for Education, Financial Benchmarking and Insights Tool. Each year is the one the financial year ends in (2024 is 2023–24). Academy figures include a share of the trust's central services, shared out by pupil numbers, and are rounded to the nearest £1,000. Premises costs were defined differently from 2024, so compare them across that gap with care.

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All schools in Teignmouth · Devon local authority: places and applications

Teignmouth Community School, Exeter Road is part of Ivy Education Trust, which runs 8 schools. The nearest others:

• Teignmouth Primary School Teignmouth
• Dawlish College Dawlish
• Cockwood Primary School Exeter
• Newton Abbot College Newton Abbot
• Starcross Primary School Exeter, Devon
• Kenton Primary School Exeter
• Kenn Church of England Primary School Exeter

What is Teignmouth Community School, Exeter Road's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Teignmouth Community School, Exeter Road is Requires Improvement, from an inspection in November 2024.

When was Teignmouth Community School, Exeter Road last inspected by Ofsted?

Teignmouth Community School, Exeter Road was last inspected in November 2024.

How many pupils does Teignmouth Community School, Exeter Road have?

Teignmouth Community School, Exeter Road has 748 pupils on roll.

What age range does Teignmouth Community School, Exeter Road cover?

Teignmouth Community School, Exeter Road for pupils aged 11 to 18.

What are Teignmouth Community School, Exeter Road's GCSE results?

In 2026 its average Attainment 8 score was 42.1, and 36% of pupils achieved grade 5 or above in both English and maths GCSE.

Where is Teignmouth Community School, Exeter Road?

Teignmouth Community School, Exeter Road is at Exeter Road, Teignmouth, Devon, TQ14 9HZ.