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Glendinning Academy

Mixed · ages 7–19 · no sixth formDevon, South West · Newton Abbot TQ12 4HDTrust: Wave Multi Academy TrustSchool website
Pupils on roll
131of 120 places
Free school meals
51.1%
Year 11 cohort 2025
22
Ofsted
Good, 3 July 2023Read the Ofsted report
What the data says

The Department for Education has not published where Glendinning Academy’s Year 11 leavers went next, so this page relies on the school’s results and subjects.

GCSE results in 2025 were well below the national picture: Attainment 8 of 16.8 against 46.1 across England and 45.4 in Devon, with 5% of pupils getting grade 5 or above in both English and maths (England 45%).

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.

The Department for Education has not published destination figures for this school (new school, small cohort or not a state-funded school).

GCSE results 2025

MeasureGlendinning AcademyDevonEngland
Attainment 8 (average points per pupil)16.845.446.1
Grade 5 or above in English and maths5%46%45%
Grade 4 or above in English and maths18%66%65%
Entered the English Baccalaureate subjects0%37%41%
EBacc average point score1.394.024.09
Disadvantaged pupils in the cohort32%22%28%
Attainment 8 — disadvantaged pupils7.632.334.9
Attainment 8 — other pupils21.149.050.4
Pupils with high prior attainment (Key Stage 2)
English as an additional language0%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.

SubjectEntriesShare of cohortEnglandGrades 7–9EnglandGrades 4–9
Art and Design2091%7%0%24%15%
English Language1359%89%0%20%31%
English Literature1359%86%0%21%23%
Mathematics1359%88%0%22%38%
Combined Science1359%65%8%9%46%
Chemistry836%23%0%47%13%

Where Glendinning Academy is

Other secondary schools in Devon are shown for comparison; darker blue means more Year 11 leavers stayed in education. The last distance at which this school offered places is not yet on file — it comes from Devon’s allocation statistics.

Other secondary schools in Devon

Atlantic Academy

Free schools · 242 pupils

80% stayed in education · Attainment 8 42.1

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

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.