Community special school

Brook Green Centre for Learning

Mixed · ages 11–16 · no sixth formPlymouth, South West · Plymouth PL5 4DZSchool website
Pupils on roll
111of 98 places
Free school meals
58.6%
Year 11 cohort 2025
22
Ofsted
School remains Outstanding (Concerns) - S5 Next, 10 December 2024Read the Ofsted report
What the data says

Brook Green Centre for Learning has no sixth form. Of the 22 pupils who finished Year 11 there in 2023, none moved to a sixth form college, 45% to a further education college and none started an apprenticeship.

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.

Brook Green Centre for Learning is a special school: its GCSE figures (Attainment 8 of 4.9, 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 Plymouth and England.

This school
Plymouth
England
School sixth formSixth form collegeFurther education collegeOther educationApprenticeshipEmploymentNo sustained destination
MeasureThis schoolPlymouthEngland
Pupils in the cohort222,912607,348
Any sustained destination91%91%92%
Stayed in education91%80%86%
— school sixth form0%40%34%
— sixth form college0%1%13%
— further education college45%37%37%
— other education45%3%2%
Apprenticeship0%9%3%
Employment0%3%3%
No sustained destination5%6%6%
Destination unknown5%3%3%

GCSE results 2025

MeasureThis schoolPlymouthEngland
Attainment 8 (average points per pupil)4.945.746.1
Grade 5 or above in English and maths0%46%45%
Grade 4 or above in English and maths0%66%65%
Entered the English Baccalaureate subjects0%28%41%
EBacc average point score0.423.964.09
Disadvantaged pupils in the cohort77%28%28%
Attainment 8 — disadvantaged pupils34.334.9
Attainment 8 — other pupils50.150.4
Pupils with high prior attainment (Key Stage 2)
English as an additional language0%9%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.

SubjectEntriesShare of cohortEnglandGrades 7–9EnglandGrades 4–9
Mathematics1359%88%0%22%0%
English Language1150%89%0%20%0%
Combined Science1150%65%0%9%9%
Art and Design836%7%0%24%50%

Other secondary schools in Plymouth

Coombe Dean School

Academy converter · sixth form · 1,000 pupils

82% stayed in education · Attainment 8 49.2

Hele's School

Academy converter · sixth form · 1,378 pupils

82% stayed in education · Attainment 8 50.7

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.