Paignton Academy Overview

Paignton Academy is a secondary school located in Paignton and reports to the local authority of Torbay.

Paignton Academy is a mixed gender school that caters to students aged from 11 to 16 years old and it has no religious affiliations

Currently the school is undersubscribed as it has an official capacity of 1590 students but currently only enrols 1528 pupils across all class years. This can generally mean that all applications to this school stand a much stronger chance of being accepted.

Paignton Academy students range across many different ethnicities with White British being the predominant ethnicity, accounting for 88.9% of all current students. English as a 1st language accounts for 5.1% of students at the school.

32.0% of all students at the school qualify for free school meals and 0% of Paignton Academy pupils are classed as SEN students who have a range of special educational needs.

Student Ethnicities