Devonport High School for Boys

Plymouth, PL1 5QP · Plymouth grammar school

Ofsted: Good Boys
Test board
Consortium: N/A. All three Plymouth grammar schools use Quest Assessments (not GL Assessment)

Ofsted judgement breakdown (2023-10-17)

Overall effectiveness
Good
Quality of education
Good
Behaviour and attitudes
Outstanding
Personal development
Outstanding
Effectiveness of leadership and management
Good
Safeguarding is effective?
Yes
Sixth form provision (where applicable)
Outstanding

Oversubscription criteria

  1. Looked after — Looked After/Previously Looked After Children achieving a qualifying mark
  2. State care adopted — Children who were in state care outside England and ceased to be so by adoption
  3. Score rank 174 — 174 candidates achieving a qualifying mark, in rank order
  4. Pupil premium — Up to 6 places: Pupil Premium candidates achieving a qualifying mark
  5. Other qualified — Other candidates achieving a qualifying mark, in rank order

What the entrance test covers

All three Plymouth grammar schools use papers from Quest Assessments, sat over two September Saturdays: Day 1 — English comprehension (about 40 minutes, ~60 questions: reading comprehension, spelling, punctuation, grammar). Day 2 — Mathematics in two sections: a 10-minute fluency paper and a 30-minute mathematical-reasoning paper (~60 questions total). Devonport High School for Boys additionally sets its own internal English WRITING paper on top of the shared Quest papers. One registration round covers the shared papers for all three schools; results arrive in October before the 31 October application deadline.

University destinations

Oxbridge
2%
Russell Group
41%
Top-third university
40%
Any degree
77%

Of the 162-student 2019/20 leaver cohort, sustaining a higher-education destination the following year. This is the last cohort the Department for Education published with an Oxbridge/Russell Group breakdown — these categories were discontinued as official accountability measures after this release, so a more recent figure does not exist.

House prices nearby

Median price, Stoke ward (Year ending Mar 2023)
£180,000

Median price for the school's electoral ward, year ending March 2023 — a neighbourhood-level indicator, not the school's actual admissions catchment (catchments are often smaller than a ward or span parts of several).

Data sourced from GIAS, Ofsted and official Plymouth admissions publications. Figures can change year to year — always confirm with the school before applying.

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