Mount Tamar School
Special schoolMount Tamar School is a special school in Plymouth, for pupils aged 4 to 16.
Ofsted
Latest inspections as at 30 September 2026Report card, January 2026: safeguarding not met, before the school changed, special measures
- Inspection
- Report card, 20 January 2026
- Safeguarding
- Not met
- Inclusion
- Urgent improvement
- Curriculum and teaching
- Urgent improvement
- Achievement
- Urgent improvement
- Attendance and behaviour
- Urgent improvement
- Personal development and wellbeing
- Needs attention
- Early years
- Not applicable
- Post-16 provision
- Not applicable
- Leadership and governance
- Urgent improvement
Outcomes as Ofsted published them. Report cards (from November 2025) give no overall grade, and grades under different frameworks can’t be compared.
Results
Department for EducationEnd of secondary school (KS4, GCSEs)
2025/26, provisional| Measure | This school | Plymouth | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average Attainment 8 score | Does not apply to this school | 46.8 | 46.2 |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | Does not apply to this school | 49.8% | 46.3% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | Does not apply to this school | 67.6% | 64.8% |
| Pupils at the end of KS4 | Does not apply to this school | – | – |
- Mount Tamar School teaches pupils with needs that most schools' pupils do not have, often in very small year groups, so its results are not a fair comparison with mainstream schools. They are not shown on the map.
- The 2025/26 figures are provisional. The Department for Education publishes revised ones later in the school year.
- Progress 8 cannot be worked out for 2025/26, because the KS2 tests that give the starting point were cancelled in 2020 and 2021.
- Results reflect the pupils a school admits as well as its teaching, and a year's results can move a lot in a small school.
Schools nearby
In a straight line- Marine Academy PrimaryPrimary. Outstanding (overall), March 2022. 88% met the expected standard at KS2 (2024/25)250 m
- Plaistow Hill Primary and Nursery SchoolPrimary. School remains Good, April 2022270 m
- Marine Academy PlymouthSecondary. Good (overall), April 2024. Attainment 8 of 45.6 (2025/26, provisional)330 m
- St Budeaux CofE Primary AcademyPrimary. Standards maintained, April 2025. 42% met the expected standard at KS2 (2024/25)370 m
- Victoria Road PrimaryPrimary. Graded inspection, January 2025: no overall grade. 44% met the expected standard at KS2 (2024/25)630 m
- St Paul's Roman Catholic Primary SchoolPrimary. School remains Good, July 2022. 56% met the expected standard at KS2 (2024/25)770 m
Admissions and catchments are set by councils and schools, which Open Index doesn’t map. Every school in Plymouth
Where these figures come from
- Schools: the school lists of the Department for Education, the Welsh Government and the Scottish Government, with Ofsted’s latest inspections for England.
- Results: the Department for Education’s school performance tables (Open Government Licence).