Cranbrook Education Campus
All-through · Academy sponsor led · Ages 2–16 · Exeter, Devon
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
2.57 miles
Published by Devon County Council · offers on 16 April 2026
Year 7 2026: Every applicant was offered a place
2024–2025 trend 🔒
Cranbrook Education Campus is an all-through school in Exeter, Devon for ages 2–16 (academy sponsor led). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 21 May 2024. Devon has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception and Year 7 2024 to 2026 entry.
Cranbrook Education Campus catchment area: last distance offered
Parents often call this the catchment area: it's how far from the school the last child offered a place lived. It changes every year.
| Entry | Last distance offered |
|---|---|
| Reception 2026 | 2.57 mi |
| Year 7 2026 | Every applicant was offered a place |
| Reception 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- For Reception 2026 the last child offered a place lived 2.57 miles away, the longest of the 3 years with a published distance.
- Reception 2026 drew 57 first-choice applications for 61 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 4 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- At Year 7 in 2026, every applicant was offered a place.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Devon schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Tillhouse Road, Cranbrook, Cranbrook Education Campus, Exeter, EX5 7EE
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Phase
- All-through
- Ages
- 2–16
- Council
- Devon
- Pupils on roll
- 1,066 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 26.1% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 19.5
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 21 May 2024
Strengths
- “Most pupils uphold these values and live up to the school’s high expectations of their behaviour.”
- “As a result, the school has a positive atmosphere and learning is rarely disturbed.”
- “Pupils have a strong voice in the school.”
To improve
- “In some subjects, however, pupils do not build their knowledge and understanding as well.”
- “For instance, pupils in the primary phase recall number facts but do not always apply them effectively to solve mathematical problems.”
- “This is because teachers in the primary phase do not have sufficient subject knowledge to implement some subject curriculums effectively.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 26 June 2024 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Exam results
| Measure | School | England |
|---|---|---|
| Key stage 2 · reading, writing and maths, expected standard (2024/25) | 66% | 62% |
| GCSE English and maths, grade 5 or above (2024/25) | 44% | 45% |
| Attainment 8 score (2024/25) | 46 | 46 |
Department for Education school performance data. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 57 first-preference applications, 61 offers in total, 57 offers to first-preference applicants.
- 2026 Year 7 entry: 103 first-preference applications, 112 offers in total, 103 offers to first-preference applicants.
Department for Education, school-level applications and offers, figures on national offer day. Earlier years are in the pass.
Nearby special, independent and other schools
Straight-line distance, in Devon.
- Ellen Tinkham School 3.6 mi Good
- Stansfield Academy 4.1 mi Not judged
- Vranch House School 4.4 mi No Ofsted grade
- The Wildings 4.6 mi No Ofsted grade
- Devon Hospitals' Short Stay School 5.4 mi School remains Good
- Southbrook School 5.4 mi Not judged
- Exeter School 5.5 mi No Ofsted grade
- Magdalen Court School 5.7 mi No Ofsted grade