Honiton Community College

Academy converter·Secondary school Honiton, Devon·EX14 1QT
Composite score
50.5
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#2,463
National rank
#258
In South West
#34
In Devon
Top 78%
Nationally

Performance (KS4 GCSE)

Attainment 8 score
40.4
National avg ≈ 46
Progress 8 score
—
% achieving 9–5 in English & Maths
36%
% achieving 9–4 in English & Maths
54%
% EBacc grade 5+
11%
EBacc average points score
3.55

Ofsted judgements

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Quality of education
Good
Behaviour and attitudes
Good
Personal development
Good
Leadership and management
Good
Safeguarding effective?
Yes

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
100%
113 first choices, 138 places
First choices per place
0.82
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
154
any preference, for 138 places
Applications from another council area
1%
First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.01
00.511.5
1 per place
0.9620220.8920230.8820240.8120250.822026

Red dashed line = one first choice per place. How to read this

Every child who put Honiton Community College first was offered a place in 2026, so no distance cut-off applied: living further away did not cost a place that year.

Application figures: DfE, school level applications and offers (2026 intake).

School profile

Age range
11–16
Pupils on roll
691
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None
Admissions
Non-Selective

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
23.0%
Typical secondary: 27.5%
% EAL
3.3%
Typical secondary: 12.0%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
15.9%
Typical secondary: 13.7%
% with an EHC plan
3.6%
Typical secondary: 2.9%

Attendance

Overall absence
12.0%
Typical secondary: 8.9%
Persistently absent
33.6%
Typical secondary: 25.7%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
18.4
Typical secondary: 16.7
Spend per pupil
£7,577
Typical secondary: £7,815

“Typical” = the median secondary school in England. What this means

What pupils do next

The share of this school's Year 11 leavers in education, training or employment for at least two terms afterwards.

In education, training or work
95%
130 pupils tracked
Stayed in education
87%
Apprenticeship
5%
Employment
3%

DfE, KS4 destination measures.

Nearby secondary schools

Location

School overview

Honiton Community College is a secondary school serving Honiton, Devon, classified by the DfE as a converter academy. It has 691 pupils aged 11 to 16 on roll. In the most recent GCSE results, pupils achieved an average Attainment 8 score of 40.4, below the national average of 46. That is down 5.2 points in its Attainment 8 score on the previous year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it in the lower half of secondary schools nationally.

36% of pupils achieved a grade 5 or above in both English and maths, below the national average of about 45%. 54% achieved a standard pass (grade 4+) in English and maths. Honiton Community College was not oversubscribed for September 2026: all 113 families who put it first were offered a place. After Year 11, 95% of its leavers went on to education, an apprenticeship or work that they stayed in for at least two terms. Overall pupil absence was 12.0%. There are about 18.4 pupils per teacher. Honiton Community College does not currently have a recent graded Ofsted judgement on record (often the case for newer or recently converted schools), so it is worth asking when its next inspection is expected. This overview is generated automatically from the latest published DfE performance tables and Ofsted data; figures are rounded, and you can check the originals via the official links above.

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