[10][failed verification] The Ted Wragg Multi-Academy Trust began setting policy at the school in September 2017.

[11][better source needed] The Trust introduced the strict Ready to Learn behaviour policy,[12] later renamed "Reset".

[11]: 10 On 28 February 2018, the school became an academy and formally acceded to the Ted Wragg Multi-Academy Trust.

[13] In April 2023, a parents' campaign group, Reset Ted Wragg, was established to oppose the Reset behaviour policy at West Exe and other schools in the Ted Wragg Multi-Academy Trust.

[14][15] The Trust initially agreed to review its policies,[16] but the group dismissed the proposed amendments to the RTL system as inadequate.