Dartmouth Academy
All-through · Dartmouth · TQ6 9HW
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 20 April 2023
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435 pupils · 54% of 810 capacity
- School type
- Academy sponsor led
- Age range
- 3–19
- Gender
- Mixed
- Admissions
- Non-selective
- Free school meals
- 26.1% of pupils
- English as additional language
- 8.2% of pupils
- SEN support
- 11.3% of pupils
- EHC plan
- 6% of pupils
- Sixth form
- Yes
- Nursery
- Yes
- Website
- www.dartmouthacademy.org.uk
- URN
- 136200
Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026
1.00 first-choice applications per place15 places offered · 15 first-choice applications · roughly balanced
First-choice applications per place, by entry year
Applications and offers on national offer day, DfE. A ratio above 1.00 means more families named this school first choice than there were places.
Admissions demand: Year 7 entry, September 2026
1.25 first-choice applications per place36 places offered · 45 first-choice applications · oversubscribed
First-choice applications per place, by entry year
Applications and offers on national offer day, DfE. A ratio above 1.00 means more families named this school first choice than there were places.
Key stage 2 results (2024/2025)
20 pupils at the end of key stage 2 in 2024/2025
GCSE results (2024/2025)
46 pupils at the end of key stage 4 in 2024/2025
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.
Staffing
Full-time-equivalent, 2025/26.
Teacher retention (2024/25)
94% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 6% left the state-funded sector
School Workforce Census, DfE. The ratio counts full-time-equivalent qualified teachers; retention follows teachers in post one November to the next. Open Government Licence v3.0.
Spending per pupil
Total expenditure ÷ pupils, academy finance return (DfE Schools Financial Benchmarking, latest year). Higher spending is not a measure of quality. It often reflects greater pupil need or a smaller school. Open Government Licence v3.0.
Where pupils go after GCSEs
Destinations measured the year after leaving, latest DfE destination measures release.
Inspection history since 2015
- 20 April 2023: Good
- 12 September 2017: Good
- 27 June 2017: Taking effective action towards the removal of special measures
- 5 October 2016: Taking effective action towards the removal of special measures
- 7 June 2016: Taking effective action towards the removal of special measures
- 30 September 2015: Inadequate
Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.
Nearby schools
- St John the Baptist Roman Catholic Primary School, Dartmouth
- Stoke Fleming Community Primary School
- Galmpton Church of England Primary School
- Churston Ferrers Grammar School Academy
- Blackawton Primary School
- Stoke Gabriel Primary School
- St Margaret Clitherow Catholic Primary School
- Eden Park Primary & Nursery School