Secondary
Hele's School
Seymour Road, Plympton, Plymouth, PL7 4LT
Key facts
- Phase
- Secondary
- Type
- Academy converter
- Ages
- 11 to 18
- Intake
- Mixed
- Pupils
- 1378 of 1349 places
- Pupils per teacher
- 19.2
- Local authority
- Plymouth
- Sixth form
- Yes
- Trust
- WESTCOUNTRY SCHOOLS TRUST
Staffing23/24
- Teachers (FTE)
- 72.0
- All staff (FTE)
- 109.8
- Pupils per adult
- 12.6
- Pupils
- 1,386
Staff are counted as full-time equivalents in the November school workforce census, so the pupil figure here is that census’s own and will differ a little from the roll above, which is counted in January.
Ofsted
Last inspected March 2023
Good
Still graded as at
Good
- Leadership and governanceGood
An ungraded inspection, which checks whether a school remains at its previous grade rather than re-grading it. Inspected under the previous framework, which used its own four-point scale. Ofsted now publishes a report card grading several areas separately, so these grades are not directly comparable with a recent inspection’s.
Read the full Ofsted report (opens in a new tab)GCSE results
54%
7 points above the Plymouth average (47% across 18 schools)
50.7
3.7 above the Plymouth average (47.0 across 18 schools)
4th of 18 by our score, among the secondary schools in Plymouth we can score - 19 in total, the rest without enough published data. Local and same-phase on purpose: a national table mostly measures who attends.
All published measures2024/2025
| Measure | Result |
|---|---|
| Attainment 8 | 50.7 |
| EBacc average point score | 4.72 |
| Entered the EBacc | 57% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 76% |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 54% |
| A level average points per entry | 33.73 |
| A level students | 111 |
From the Department for Education. Measures are published per year and suppressed where a cohort is too small, so some schools show fewer. There are no results for 2019/20 or 2020/21, when exams and assessments were cancelled.
Results over time4 years
Each measure on its own scale, over every year we hold.
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | 50% |
| 22/23 | 57% |
| 23/24 | 45% |
| 24/25 | 54% |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | 36.5 |
| 22/23 | 30.3 |
| 23/24 | 31.6 |
| 24/25 | 33.7 |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | -0.28 |
| 22/23 | +0.13 |
| 23/24 | -0.09 |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | 47.8 |
| 22/23 | 50.0 |
| 23/24 | 47.3 |
| 24/25 | 50.7 |
Seymour Road, Plympton, Plymouth, PL7 4LT
Admissions
How to apply (opens in a new tab)
You apply through your council, not the school - even for academies and free schools. Applications close on 31 October, the year before starting.
Plymouth admissions (opens in a new tab)
The council publishes the oversubscription criteria and last year’s offer distances, which is the closest thing to knowing your chances.
If you are refused a place (opens in a new tab)
You can appeal, and you can join a waiting list at the same time. Accept whatever offer you get first - declining it can leave you with no place at all.
This school’s own admissions (opens in a new tab)
Schools that set their own criteria - faith schools, grammars, academies - publish them on their own site.
Contact
- Headteacher
- Emma Clapham
- Address
- Seymour Road, Plympton, Plymouth, PL7 4LT
- Telephone
- 01752337193