School profile
The Promise School
Wardhayes, Simmons Way, Okehampton, EX20 1PU
Overview
The Promise School is a special / send school (free schools special) in Okehampton, South West, for pupils aged 4–16. This summary is generated only from official structured fields.
School details
- Official establishment type
- Free schools special
- Establishment group
- Free Schools
- Age range
- Ages 4–16
- Gender of entry
- Mixed
- Boarding
- No boarders
- Sixth form
- No
- School capacity
- 100
- Pupils on roll
- 79
- URN
- 149041
Admissions
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Local authority
- Devon
- Academy trust or group
- DARTMOOR MULTI ACADEMY 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 | 89 |
| Grammar, punctuation & spelling — meeting the expected standard | 0% |
| Grammar, punctuation & spelling — achieving a high score | 0% |
| Maths — average scaled score | 90 |
| Maths — meeting the expected standard | 0% |
| Maths — achieving a high score | 0% |
| Reading — average scaled score | 92 |
| Reading — meeting the expected standard | 15% |
| 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 | 23% |
| Writing — meeting the expected standard | 8% |
| 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 17 June 2025 · Published 14 July 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
- Inadequate
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Inadequate
- Personal development
- Requires improvement
- Effectiveness of leadership and management
- Inadequate
- Safeguarding was effective
- Yes
Ofsted recorded this school in a category of concern: Special measures. The official report explains what this means and what happens next.
Other recent inspection activity
These visits do not carry a graded judgement and do not replace the inspection above.
Schools into Special Measures Visit 1
Inspected 18 March 2026 · Published 13 May 2026
Outcome: Leaders and governors/trustees are taking effective action to improve the school but continued work is needed to remove the special measures designation
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.
- ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder
- SEMH - Social, Emotional and Mental Health
Location
- Address
- Wardhayes, Simmons Way, Okehampton, EX20 1PU
- Local authority
- Devon
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