Churston Ferrers Grammar School Academy

Churston Ferrers Grammar School Academy is a co-educational selective grammar in Churston Ferrers, Brixham, serving ages 11 to 18. The school's public identity is unusually direct: its headline promise is "learning to create a better world", with scholarship, wellbeing and active citizenship used as the three anchors for school life. The school has 1,016 pupils on roll, including the sixth form.

The curriculum offer is framed around academic rigour without losing breadth. Churston describes a rich programme running from core subjects into languages, physical education and creative subjects, with sixth-form options designed to keep strong A-level routes open. The academic-results page links this to high expectations and strong progression into university, Russell Group destinations and competitive degree apprenticeships, while also making wellbeing part of the route to achievement rather than a separate add-on.

Daily school life has a pronounced community tone. The website repeatedly returns to resilience, kindness, responsibility, connection and mutual respect; school-life pages name Duke of Edinburgh, music, drama, sport, student leadership and the house system. Churston puts unusual weight on students finding their place in the community, not only on individual performance.

Year 7 admission has 160 places. The current 11+ route is a GL Assessment test in English and mathematics only: verbal reasoning, non-verbal reasoning and creative writing are not listed for this route. No numeric pass mark is published; instead, the oversubscription policy uses rank-based bands, including a priority block tied to the score of the fiftieth-ranked child, followed by pupil-premium, sibling, staff, feeder-primary and score-ranked categories. Ofsted judged the school Good in October 2022, and GOV.UK shows +0.17 Progress 8, 97.9% grade 5+ in English and maths, and 22.3% AAB or better at A level.