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Southbrook School

Southbrook School

Special schoolAges 11–16Foundation

Exeter, EX2 6JB · Devon local authority

Exeter’s School Grade B− better than 48% of towns in England

Photo: Sic19 · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
How full
140 pupils
117% of its 120 places
Free school meals
49%
49 in 100 pupils eligible · outlined square = England’s schools (25)
The gist

What stands out about Southbrook School

  • No letter for this school: the reason is below.
  • Over capacity: 140 pupils for 120 places
  • 49% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (more than England’s 25%)
  • Ofsted: Inspected, November 2024 (shown, not graded)
  • Homes in its postcode sector (EX2 6) sold for a median £297,500; Exeter’s is £295,000

Results

DfE · GCSEs 2025/26, provisional · 28 pupils

Each bar is a group of England’s 3,224 graded secondary schools. The schools Southbrook beats are shaded green.

Attainment 8 0.8

Average grade across 8 GCSEs ×10 · higher than 0% of schools · Devon avg 46.8

20304050607080England avg 47.3Southbrook 0.8

Grade 5+ in English and maths 0%

A strong pass · higher than 0% of schools · Devon avg 46%

0%20%40%60%80%100%England avg 47.3%Southbrook 0%

Attainment 8, three years

The mark is England’s average that year

2024/25
0.2
2025/26
0.8

Disadvantaged pupils, 2025/26

Attainment 8 for the 16 pupils DfE counts as disadvantaged (free school meals in the last 6 years, or looked after) and the rest, beside England’s schools

Disadvantaged
0.9England 38.6
Not disadvantaged
0.5England 50.6
Grade 4 or above in English and maths0%
England’s schools 66% · Devon 66% · a standard pass

England’s figures are of its graded mainstream state schools, each school counted once; grammar schools are included, which is why the right-hand tail is long. Small cohorts are suppressed.

Who goes here

DfE school census, January 2025

139 pupils. SEN support is extra help in school for a special educational need; an EHC plan is the council’s legal plan for pupils who need more.

SEN support
0%England 15.3%
EHC plan
100%England 3.6%
English as an additional language
0.7%England 18.8%
Free school meals in the last 6 years
43.9%England 26.2%

Girls and boys

Girls 40%Boys 60%
Its letter

No letter for Southbrook School

Special schools aren’t given a letter: their pupils’ needs differ too much for results to compare with mainstream schools.

Letters go to England’s open mainstream state schools with published Key Stage 2 or GCSE results (grammar schools included), each against the schools of its own phase.

Ofsted

Ofsted inspections

Shown, not graded: Ofsted is never part of a letter or the School Grade.

Graded inspection (no overall grade since September 2024), November 2024. Ungraded inspection: School remains Good (Concerns), June 2023.

The full reports on Ofsted ↗

Living nearby

Living near Southbrook School

For families thinking of moving: what homes cost around the school, and the other schools close by.

Home prices in EX2 6, the school’s postcode sector

Exeter property prices →
£297,500
median sale, 173 sales in 36 months · Exeter £295,000

Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025

£100K£150K£200K£250K£300K£350K£400K2010201520202025EX2 6Exeter
EX2 6Exeter

By type, the 36 months to August 2026

Detached
£625K
Semi-detached
£260K
Terraced
£276K
Flat
£218K
EX2 6Exeter

Homes in EX2 6 sell for about the same as Exeter’s typical price. HM Land Registry Price Paid, standard sales. Catchments aren’t published, so the postcode sector stands in for “around the school”.

Schools within 1.6 miles

12 state schools
0.5 mi1 mi1.5 miNA−B+DBB−A−DA−D−C+C−Southbrook School
ABCDNo letterPrimarySecondary / all-through

Exeter, EX2 6JB

Southbrook School: common questions

What is Southbrook School’s Ofsted rating?

Its latest inspection outcome is Inspected (November 2024).

How much do houses cost near Southbrook School?

Homes in its postcode sector, EX2 6, sold for a median £297,500 over the 36 months to August 2026 (173 sales).

Sources: DfE Get Information about Schools (16 October 2026), Key Stage 2 performance tables (2023–2025, three-year average) and Key Stage 4 (2025/26, provisional); Ofsted state-funded school inspections as at 30 September 2026. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Also: DfE Key Stage 4 performance, schools data (2023/24 and 2024/25 final, 2025/26 provisional) and Key Stage 2 performance tables 2024/25 by subject; DfE school census, January 2025; DfE school-level applications and offers, September 2019 to 2026 entry; HM Land Registry Price Paid by postcode sector, 2010 to August 2026.

A school’s letter is our own summary of its published results against England’s schools of the same phase; Exeter’s School Grade is a separate grade, built from the results of the schools in and around the town against other towns. Map: © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026 (ONS boundaries). Northern Ireland: Source: NISRA; contains Land & Property Services data and Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland information, © Crown copyright, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Scotland: contains National Records of Scotland data, Registers of Scotland data and SEPA data, © Crown copyright / © SEPA 2025, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.