Southbrook School
Special schoolSouthbrook School is a special school in Exeter, for pupils aged 11 to 16. It had 140 pupils at the school census in January 2026.
Ofsted
Latest inspections as at 30 September 2026Graded inspection, November 2024: no overall grade
- Inspection
- Graded inspection, 26 November 2024
- Overall effectiveness
- No overall grade (from September 2024)
- Quality of education
- Requires improvement
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Good
- Personal development
- Good
- Leadership and management
- Good
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 EducationIn 2025/26, the average Attainment 8 score at Southbrook School was 0.8, against 45.5 in Exeter and 46.2 in England.
0% of its pupils got grade 5 or above in English and maths GCSEs (46.3% in England).
End of secondary school (KS4, GCSEs)
2025/26, provisional| Measure | This school | Exeter | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average Attainment 8 score | 0.8 | 45.5 | 46.2 |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 0% | 48.4% | 46.3% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 0% | 65.4% | 64.8% |
| Pupils at the end of KS4 | 28 | – | – |
- Southbrook 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- Infocus CollegeSpecial. No outcome in Ofsted's file470 m
- Chestnut Nursery School - Exeter Nursery Schools FederationNursery. School remains Good (Improving), next inspection graded, November 2023750 m
- Wynstream Primary School AcademyPrimary. Report card, March 2026: safeguarding met. 57% met the expected standard at KS2 (2024/25)800 m
- Isca AcademySecondary. Report card, July 2026: safeguarding met. Attainment 8 of 47.4 (2025/26, provisional)890 m
- Countess Wear Primary SchoolPrimary. Requires improvement (overall), October 2022, before the school changed. 31% met the expected standard at KS2 (2024/25)1.1 km
- Woodwater AcademyPrimary. Good (overall), March 2024. 65% met the expected standard at KS2 (2024/25)1.2 km
Admissions and catchments are set by councils and schools, which Open Index doesn’t map. Every school in Exeter
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).