The Promise School
Wardhayes, Simmons Way, Okehampton, EX20 1PU
This school has not opened yet.
- Phase
- Free Schools
- School type
- Free schools special
- Ages
- 4 to 16
- Gender
- Mixed
- Religious character
- None
- Headteacher
- Mr Quentin Gunderson
- Constituency
- Central Devon
- Setting
- Larger rural: Further from a major town or city
- Capacity
- 100
- URN
- 152565
- Local authority
- Devon
About this school
The Promise School will be a special academy in Okehampton. It teaches children aged 4 to 16.
Ofsted will inspect it once it opens.
Ofsted judgement
The Promise School has not been inspected by Ofsted yet. It opened in its current form in November 2026, and new or converted schools usually wait a few years for their first inspection.
Before converting it was The Promise School. The history below belongs to that predecessor school, not to the school as it runs today.
Predecessor school: The Promise School (closed October 2026)
Ofsted did not give an overall grade. Between September 2024 and September 2025 inspections graded each area of a school's work without a single overall judgement, ahead of the move to report cards. How Ofsted report cards work
- Quality of education
- Inadequate
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Inadequate
- Personal development
- Requires improvement
- Leadership and management
- Inadequate
- Safeguarding
- Effective
Ofsted placed the school in a category of concern: special measures.
Location
Nearby schools
-
Acorn School9.0 miles
Special schools · Winkleigh
-
Running Deer School10.8 miles
Special schools · Moretonhampstead
-
Shebbear College12.6 miles
Independent schools · Beaworthy
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Okehampton College0.1 miles
Secondary · Okehampton
-
Okehampton Primary School and Foundation Unit0.5 miles
Primary · Okehampton
Other schools in Okehampton
- The Promise School Free Schools
- Boasley Cross Community Primary School Primary
- Bridestowe Primary School Primary
- Exbourne Church of England Primary School Primary
- Hatherleigh Community Primary School Primary
- Lew Trenchard Church of England Primary School Primary
- Lydford Primary School Primary
- Northlew and Ashbury Parochial Church of England Primary School Primary
- Okehampton Primary School and Foundation Unit Primary
- South Tawton Primary School Primary
- St James Church of England Primary and Nursery School Primary
- The Clinton Church of England Primary School Primary
School details come from the Department for Education's Get Information About Schools register. Inspection outcomes come from Ofsted, and exam results from the Department for Education's school performance service. This page was last updated on 9 July 2026.