Devon Studio School is a school for students aged between 14 and 19 years and has a focus on vocational education in the areas of health and social care. It occupies a new building on a site in Torbay Hospital Trust grounds. Studio schools are typically much smaller than the average-sized secondary school, as is the case with this school. It opened and admitted its first students into Years 10 and 12 in September 2013. The school does not have leaders with specific responsibility for subject areas within its leadership structure. Instead, two recently appointed leaders take responsibility for the curriculum in Key Stage 4 and Key Stage 5. The school refers to teachers as ‘learning coaches’. The school uses separate facilities for teaching physical education, as none are available on its own site. As part of its studio school provision, the school aims to provide placements and work experience for all students. It works with a range of partners in the local area to do this. The great majority of students are girls. Most students are of White British heritage. The proportion of students for whom the school receives pupil premium funding, which is additional government funding to support the achievement of disadvantaged students including those in public care, is below average. The proportion of disabled students or those with special educational needs, including with a statement of educational needs, is below average. The school has two main strategic partners: South Devon College and Torbay and South Devon Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. Responsibility for governance, however, lies with the school’s governing body, although representatives from both partners sit on the governing body. The school purchases some administrative services from South Devon College through a service level agreement. A small number of students attend alternative provision provided by Devon Personalised Learning Service (DPLS), through education other than at school services run by the local authority (EOTAS) and at South Devon College Link service. Although most of these students attend full-time at these providers, they are dual-registered and are therefore also on the roll of the school. This year is the first year in which the school will have a full set of public examination results which, when published and validated, can be compared with the government’s floor standards, the minimum expectations of students’ attainment and progress at the end of Year 11.