Royal Deaf Education Trust
Special / other · Exmouth · EX8 2AU
Graded inspection under the pre-November 2025 system
This is an overall-effectiveness grade from the previous inspection framework. The school has not yet had a report-card inspection.
Inspected 23 February 2023
Read the Ofsted report ↗At a glance
49 pupils · 33% of 150 capacity
- School type
- Non-maintained special school
- Age range
- 5–19
- Gender
- Mixed
- Free school meals
- 42.4% of pupils
- English as additional language
- 39.6% of pupils
- SEN support
- 4.2% of pupils
- EHC plan
- 95.8% of pupils
- Sixth form
- Yes
- Website
- www.thedeafacademy.ac.uk
- URN
- 113654
GCSE results (2024/2025)
5 pupils at the end of key stage 4 in 2024/2025
suppressed (small cohort)
suppressed (small cohort)
suppressed (small cohort)
suppressed (small cohort)
Progress 8 is suspended nationally for 2024/25 and 2025/26. These cohorts sat no key stage 2 tests (COVID), so there is no baseline to measure progress from.
Source: DfE performance tables 2024/2025. “Suppressed” means the DfE withholds figures for very small cohorts.
Attendance (2025/26 autumn term)
Autumn-term absence, DfE pupil absence data. Lower is better.
Where pupils go after GCSEs
suppressed (small cohort)
suppressed (small cohort)
suppressed (small cohort)
suppressed (small cohort)
Destinations measured the year after leaving, latest DfE destination measures release.
Inspection history since 2015
- 23 February 2023: Good
- 16 January 2019: Requires improvement
- 27 June 2018: Taking effective action towards the removal of special measures
- 12 December 2017: School is not taking effective action towards the removal of special measures
- 4 July 2017: Taking effective action towards the removal of special measures
- 8 November 2016: Inadequate
Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.