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Glendinning Academy

Special schoolAges 7–19Free school

Newton Abbot, TQ12 4HD · Devon local authority

Newton Abbot’s School Grade C better than 26% of towns in England

How full
131 pupils
109% of its 120 places
Free school meals
51%
51 in 100 pupils eligible · outlined square = England’s schools (25)
The gist

What stands out about Glendinning Academy

  • No letter for this school: the reason is below.
  • Over capacity: 131 pupils for 120 places
  • 51% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (more than England’s 25%)
  • Ofsted: Good, July 2023 (shown, not graded)
  • Homes in its postcode sector (TQ12 4) sold for a median £270,000; Newton Abbot’s is £250,000

Results

DfE · GCSEs 2025/26, provisional · 18 pupils

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

Attainment 8 28.4

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

20304050607080England avg 47.3Glendinning 28.4

Grade 5+ in English and maths 28%

A strong pass · higher than 11% of schools · Devon avg 46%

0%20%40%60%80%100%England avg 47.3%Glendinning 28%

Attainment 8, three years

The mark is England’s average that year

2023/24
13.3
2024/25
16.8
2025/26
28.4

Progress 8, 2023/24

−1 behind0 = national+1 ahead

-1.72: below average. How pupils did at GCSE against pupils nationally with the same results at 11. Not published since 2023/24 (no Key Stage 2 tests in 2020 and 2021).

Grade 4 or above in English and maths39%
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

130 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
0.8%England 18.8%
Free school meals in the last 6 years
46.2%England 26.2%

Girls and boys

Girls 21%Boys 79%
Its letter

No letter for Glendinning Academy

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: Good, July 2023.

The full reports on Ofsted ↗

Living nearby

Living near Glendinning Academy

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

Home prices in TQ12 4, the school’s postcode sector

Newton Abbot property prices →
£270,000
median sale, 352 sales in 36 months · Newton Abbot £250,000

Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025

£150K£200K£250K£300K2010201520202025TQ12 4Newton Abbot
TQ12 4Newton Abbot

By type, the 36 months to August 2026

Detached
£368K
Semi-detached
£265K
Terraced
£221K
Flat
£132K
TQ12 4Newton Abbot

Homes in TQ12 4 sell for a little over Newton Abbot’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

10 state schools
0.5 mi1 mi1.5 miNC−C−B−C+B−C−C+D−B−DGlendinning Academy
ABCDNo letterPrimarySecondary / all-through

Newton Abbot, TQ12 4HD

Glendinning Academy: common questions

What is Glendinning Academy’s Ofsted rating?

Its latest inspection outcome is Good (July 2023).

How much do houses cost near Glendinning Academy?

Homes in its postcode sector, TQ12 4, sold for a median £270,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (352 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; Newton Abbot’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.