School profile
Southbrook School
Bishop Westall Road, Topsham Road, Exeter, Devon, EX2 6JB
Overview
Southbrook School is a special / send school (foundation special school) in Exeter, South West, for pupils aged 11–16. This summary is generated only from official structured fields.
School details
- Official establishment type
- Foundation special school
- Establishment group
- Special schools
- Age range
- Ages 11–16
- Gender of entry
- Mixed
- Boarding
- No boarders
- School capacity
- 120
- Pupils on roll
- 140
- URN
- 113634
Admissions
- Local authority
- Devon
- Academy trust or group
- SENtient Trust
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Official performance data
School performance
Official Department for Education results for this school. Results are shown for the academic year they relate to.
Secondary
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 |
|---|---|
| Attainment 8 score | 0.2 |
| EBacc average point score | 0.02 |
| Entering the EBacc | 0% |
| Grade 4 or above in English & maths | 0% |
| Grade 5 or above in English & maths | 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 26 November 2024 · Published 20 January 2025
Original education inspection framework (September 2024 to November 2025)
Ofsted did not give schools an overall effectiveness grade during this inspection period. The judgements Ofsted did publish are shown below.
- Quality of education
- Requires improvement
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Good
- Personal development
- Good
- Effectiveness of leadership and management
- Good
- 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 8 June 2023 · Published 18 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.
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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.
- MLD - Moderate Learning Difficulty
Location
- Address
- Bishop Westall Road, Topsham Road, Exeter, Devon, EX2 6JB
- Local authority
- Devon
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