Atlantic Academy
Free schools · 242 pupils
80% stayed in education · Attainment 8 42.1
Academy special sponsor led
Orchard Manor School
- Pupils on roll
- 227of 200 places
- Free school meals
- 46.8%
- Year 11 cohort 2025
- 28
- Ofsted
- Good, 23 January 2024Read the Ofsted report
Results below include those reported under the school’s previous registration: Orchard Manor School (URN 113656, until 28 February 2021).
What the data says
Of the 28 pupils who finished Year 11 at Orchard Manor School in 2023, 4% stayed on in Orchard Manor School’s own sixth form (Devon average 23%), 43% went to a further education college and none started an apprenticeship.
GCSE results in 2025 were well below the national picture: Attainment 8 of 7.5 against 46.1 across England and 45.4 in Devon, with 0% of pupils getting grade 5 or above in both English and maths (England 45%).
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.
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 | Orchard Manor School | Devon | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils in the cohort | 28 | 7,192 | 607,348 |
| Any sustained destination | 93% | 92% | 92% |
| Stayed in education | 93% | 82% | 86% |
| — school sixth form | 4% | 23% | 34% |
| — sixth form college | 0% | 2% | 13% |
| — further education college | 43% | 56% | 37% |
| — other education | 46% | 2% | 2% |
| Apprenticeship | 0% | 6% | 3% |
| Employment | 0% | 4% | 3% |
| No sustained destination | 7% | 6% | 6% |
| Destination unknown | 0% | 2% | 3% |
Where students went after sixth form
Destinations of students who finished 16–18 study in 2023, measured the following year.
No published destinations for sixth-form leavers yet.
GCSE results 2025
| Measure | Orchard Manor School | Devon | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Attainment 8 (average points per pupil) | 7.5 | 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 | 0.74 | 4.02 | 4.09 |
| Disadvantaged pupils in the cohort | 57% | 22% | 28% |
| Attainment 8 — disadvantaged pupils | 7.8 | 32.3 | 34.9 |
| Attainment 8 — other pupils | 7.0 | 49.0 | 50.4 |
| Pupils with high prior attainment (Key Stage 2) | — | — | — |
| English as an additional language | 4% | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language | 21 | 75% | 89% | 0% | 20% | 14% |
| Mathematics | 19 | 68% | 88% | 0% | 22% | 5% |
| Combined Science | 15 | 54% | 65% | 0% | 9% | 20% |
| History | 1 | 4% | 41% | — | 26% | — |
Where Orchard Manor School 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
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.