Special academy · Plymouth
Mount Tamar School
- Special
- Ages 4–16
Term dates
Special academies can set their own term dates. Many follow Plymouth council's dates, shown below as a guide, but check with the school, especially for INSET days.
2026/27
Admissions
Places at special schools are usually arranged through an education, health and care (EHC) plan, agreed with the council.
Ofsted inspection
Report card, 20 January 2026. Ofsted now grades each area separately, from exceptional to urgent improvement, with no single overall grade. It was inspected as Mount Tamar School, before the school changed (for example, became an academy).
Special measures
- Inclusion
- Urgent improvement
- Curriculum and teaching
- Urgent improvement
- Achievement
- Urgent improvement
- Attendance and behaviour
- Urgent improvement
- Personal development and wellbeing
- Needs attention
- Leadership and governance
- Urgent improvement
Safeguarding standards: not met.
From Ofsted's published inspection data (Open Government Licence). Report cards and older grades use different scales, so they can't be compared directly.
About and location
- Type
- Special academy
- Phase
- Special
- Ages
- 4–16
- Gender
- Mixed
- Academy trust
- REACH SOUTH ACADEMY TRUST
- Address
- Row Lane, Plymouth, PL5 2EF
School details from the Department for Education's register of schools (Open Government Licence). Report a correction.