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Mount Tamar School

Mixed · ages 4–16Plymouth, South West · Plymouth PL5 2EFTrust: Reach South Academy Trust
Pupils on roll
of 110 places
Free school meals
Year 11 cohort 2025
12
Ofsted
Report card, 20 January 2026Read the Ofsted report
Curriculum and teaching Urgent improvementAchievement Urgent improvementAttendance and behaviour Urgent improvementPersonal development and wellbeing Needs attentionInclusion Urgent improvementLeadership and governance Urgent improvementPost-16 provision Not applicableSafeguarding Not met

Results below include those reported under the school’s previous registration: Mount Tamar School (URN 149391, until 1 May 2026).

What the data says

The Department for Education has not published where Mount Tamar School’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 3.5 against 46.1 across England and 45.7 in Plymouth, with 0% 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 Plymouth 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

MeasureMount Tamar SchoolPlymouthEngland
Attainment 8 (average points per pupil)3.545.746.1
Grade 5 or above in English and maths0%46%45%
Grade 4 or above in English and maths0%66%65%
Entered the English Baccalaureate subjects0%28%41%
EBacc average point score0.253.964.09
Disadvantaged pupils in the cohort100%28%28%
Attainment 8 — disadvantaged pupils3.534.334.9
Attainment 8 — other pupils50.150.4
Pupils with high prior attainment (Key Stage 2)
English as an additional language0%9%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
English Language867%89%0%20%0%
Mathematics758%88%0%22%0%
Combined Science325%65%9%
Biology217%23%45%

Other secondary schools in Plymouth

Coombe Dean School

Academy converter · sixth form · 1,000 pupils

82% stayed in education · Attainment 8 49.2

Hele's School

Academy converter · sixth form · 1,378 pupils

82% stayed in education · Attainment 8 50.7

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.