School profile
Barley Lane School
Barley Lane, St Thomas, Exeter, Devon, EX4 1TA
Overview
Barley Lane School is a special / send school (foundation special school) in Exeter, South West, for pupils aged 7–16. This summary is generated only from official structured fields.
School details
- Official establishment type
- Foundation special school
- Establishment group
- Special schools
- Age range
- Ages 7–16
- Gender of entry
- Mixed
- Boarding
- No boarders
- School capacity
- 84
- Pupils on roll
- 80
- URN
- 113636
Admissions
- Local authority
- Devon
- Academy trust or group
- SENtient Trust
Contact the school or your local authority for catchment and application deadlines.
Official performance data
School performance
Official Department for Education results for this school. Results are shown for the academic year they relate to.
2024/25 results
This is a special school. National performance measures are designed for mainstream schools and often do not reflect the needs of pupils here, so only the figures DfE publishes for this school are listed below.
| Measure | School |
|---|---|
| Grammar, punctuation & spelling — average scaled score | 98 |
| Grammar, punctuation & spelling — meeting the expected standard | 29% |
| Grammar, punctuation & spelling — achieving a high score | 0% |
| Maths — average scaled score | 91 |
| Maths — meeting the expected standard | 14% |
| Maths — achieving a high score | 0% |
| Reading — average scaled score | 96 |
| Reading — meeting the expected standard | 29% |
| Reading — achieving a high score | 0% |
| Reading, writing & maths — meeting the expected standard | 0% |
| Reading, writing & maths — achieving a higher standard | 0% |
| Science — meeting the expected standard | 0% |
| Writing — meeting the expected standard | 0% |
| Writing — working at greater depth | 0% |
Source: Department for Education · School performance data.
Official inspection data
Ofsted inspections
Inspection information published by Ofsted, shown in Ofsted's own words.
Ofsted inspection
Inspected 9 July 2024 · Published 9 September 2024
Original education inspection framework (September 2019 to August 2024)
Overall effectiveness
Requires improvement
This is a historical Ofsted judgement given under the previous inspection framework. It is not a School Nest rating.
- Quality of education
- Requires improvement
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Good
- Personal development
- Good
- Effectiveness of leadership and management
- Requires improvement
- Safeguarding was effective
- Yes
Other recent inspection activity
These visits do not carry a graded judgement and do not replace the inspection above.
Ungraded inspection
Inspected 17 May 2023 · Published 3 July 2023
Outcome: School remains Good (Concerns) - S5 Next
Ofsted changed how it inspects and reports on schools in November 2025. Judgements from the previous and current frameworks use different systems and should not be directly compared.
School Nest shows the inspection information Ofsted currently publishes for this school. It is not a complete record of every inspection the school has ever had.
Source: Ofsted · Inspections and outcomes. Official Ofsted page for this school
SEND and additional needs
Types of special educational need recorded in the official dataset. These describe recorded provision, not a judgement of quality.
- SEMH - Social, Emotional and Mental Health
Location
- Address
- Barley Lane, St Thomas, Exeter, Devon, EX4 1TA
- Local authority
- Devon
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