Atlantic Academy
Free schools · 242 pupils
80% stayed in education · Attainment 8 42.1
Foundation special school
Barley Lane School
- Pupils on roll
- 80of 79 places
- Free school meals
- 70.0%
- Year 11 cohort 2025
- 13
- Ofsted
- Requires improvement, 9 July 2024Read the Ofsted report
What the data says
Of the 11 pupils who finished Year 11 at Barley Lane School in 2023, none moved to a sixth form college, 18% to a further education college and none started an apprenticeship.
73% of leavers were not in sustained education, employment or training six months on, compared with 6% nationally.
Almost nobody goes straight into an apprenticeship or a job: none took an apprenticeship and none went into work, against 3% and 3% across England.
Barley Lane School is a special school: its GCSE figures (Attainment 8 of 5.4, 0% with grade 5 or above in English and maths) are published by DfE for completeness and are not comparable with mainstream schools.
Where pupils went after Year 11
Destinations of the 2023 Year 11 leavers, measured the following year: the share in a sustained place for at least two terms. Compared with all state-funded schools in Devon and England.
School sixth formSixth form collegeFurther education collegeOther educationApprenticeshipEmploymentNo sustained destination
| Measure | Barley Lane School | Devon | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils in the cohort | 11 | 7,192 | 607,348 |
| Any sustained destination | 27% | 92% | 92% |
| Stayed in education | 27% | 82% | 86% |
| — school sixth form | 0% | 23% | 34% |
| — sixth form college | 0% | 2% | 13% |
| — further education college | 18% | 56% | 37% |
| — other education | 9% | 2% | 2% |
| Apprenticeship | 0% | 6% | 3% |
| Employment | 0% | 4% | 3% |
| No sustained destination | 73% | 6% | 6% |
| Destination unknown | 0% | 2% | 3% |
GCSE results 2025
| Measure | Barley Lane School | Devon | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Attainment 8 (average points per pupil) | 5.4 | 45.4 | 46.1 |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 0% | 46% | 45% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 0% | 66% | 65% |
| Entered the English Baccalaureate subjects | 0% | 37% | 41% |
| EBacc average point score | 0.29 | 4.02 | 4.09 |
| Disadvantaged pupils in the cohort | 77% | 22% | 28% |
| Attainment 8 — disadvantaged pupils | — | 32.3 | 34.9 |
| Attainment 8 — other pupils | — | 49.0 | 50.4 |
| Pupils with high prior attainment (Key Stage 2) | — | — | — |
| English as an additional language | 0% | 6% | 19% |
Progress 8 is not available for 2025 and 2026: these cohorts had no Key Stage 2 tests in 2020 and 2021, so there is no baseline. Attainment 8 shows results without taking pupils’ starting points into account.
Subjects taken at GCSE
Entries in 2025 as a share of the Year 11 cohort, and the share of entries graded 7–9 and 4–9, compared with all entries in England.
| Subject | Entries | Share of cohort | England | Grades 7–9 | England | Grades 4–9 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mathematics | 16 | 100% | 88% | 0% | 22% | 25% |
| English Language | 12 | 92% | 89% | 0% | 20% | 0% |
| Biology | 4 | 31% | 23% | — | 45% | — |
Other secondary schools in Devon
Axe Valley Academy
Academy sponsor led · 741 pupils
84% stayed in education · Attainment 8 39.2
Bideford College
Academy sponsor led · sixth form · 1,455 pupils
71% stayed in education · Attainment 8 45.7
Braunton Academy
Academy converter · 828 pupils
87% stayed in education · Attainment 8 53.7
Chulmleigh Community College
Academy converter · 735 pupils
88% stayed in education · Attainment 8 54.1
Clyst Vale Community College
Academy converter · sixth form · 944 pupils
78% stayed in education · Attainment 8 44.5
Sources: Department for Education school and college performance tables 2024/2025 (Key Stage 4 and 16–18 results, subject entries, destination measures for 2023 leavers); Get Information About Schools register as at 19 September 2026; Ofsted management information as at 31 August 2026. Small numbers are suppressed by DfE and shown as “—”. How to read these figures.