Graded inspection · Oct 2024 Previous framework
- Quality of education
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Personal development
- Leadership and management
This schoolOther primary schools in Torbay
What did Ofsted find?
Ofsted data to 30 September 2026| Area | Outstanding | Good | Requires improvement | Inadequate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quality of education | Requires improvement | |||
| Behaviour and attitudes | Good | |||
| Personal development | Good | |||
| Leadership and management | Requires improvement | |||
| Early years provision | Good |
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About these grades
Ofsted's report cards (from November 2025) grade each area on five steps and give no overall grade. Earlier grades come from a different framework; Ofsted says the two cannot be compared, so they are never converted here. Ofsted: "We normally inspect schools every 4 years or at any time if we have concerns." Methodology.
How hard is it to get a place?
DfE · Sept 2026 entry15 applications · 7 places offered · 7 named it first
FaithMay give priority to families of the faith.
- 2026 2.1; Torbay median median 1.6
- 2025 2.8; Torbay median median 1.7
- 2024 2.2; Torbay median median 1.8
- 2023 1.9; Torbay median median 1.7
- 2022 3.1; Torbay median median 1.9
- 2021 2.8; Torbay median median 1.9
- 2020 4.1; Torbay median median 2.1
- 2019 3.7; Torbay median median 2.1
- 2018 3.1; Torbay median median 2.2
- 2017 2.9; Torbay median median 2.3
- 2016 4.1; Torbay median median 2.2; as the previous school
- 2015 2.5; Torbay median median 1.9; as the previous school
- 2014 3.4; Torbay median median 1.7; as the previous school
- This school
- Torbay median
Dashed bars: as Upton St James CofE Primary School (URN 113402), the previous school.
Reception applications for September 2027 close 15 January 2027, through your council
How this is measured
Applications per place: every application naming the school at any preference, divided by places offered on National Offer Day. It is not your chance of a place. Methodology.
| Entry | Places | Applications | Per place | First preferences | First-pref. ratio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2026 | 7 | 15 | 2.1 | 7 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2025 | 9 | 25 | 2.8 | 9 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2024 | 9 | 20 | 2.2 | 9 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2023 | 15 | 28 | 1.9 | 20 | 1.33 |
| Sep 2022 | 11 | 34 | 3.1 | 9 | 0.82 |
| Sep 2021 | 14 | 39 | 2.8 | 14 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2020 | 15 | 61 | 4.1 | 31 | 2.07 |
| Sep 2019 | 14 | 52 | 3.7 | 14 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2018 | 15 | 47 | 3.1 | 15 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2017 | 14 | 40 | 2.9 | 11 | 0.79 |
| Sep 2016 * | 15 | 61 | 4.1 | 18 | 1.20 |
| Sep 2015 * | 14 | 35 | 2.5 | 10 | 0.71 |
| Sep 2014 * | 15 | 51 | 3.4 | 18 | 1.20 |
How did pupils do in SATs?
DfE KS2 · 2024/25Reading 60% · Writing 71% · Maths 53% → all three 36% met the expected standard, End of Year 6
- This school
- Torbay median
- England median
Every year as a table
| Year | Expected standard | Higher standard | Reading score | Maths score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024/25 | 36% | 0% | 103 | 98 |
| 2023/24 | 20% | 0% | 103 | 98 |
| 2022/23 | 33% | 0% | 104 | 97 |
Subject results are published for the latest year only. Scaled scores run from 80 to 120.
Schools nearby
The 8 nearest primary schools in a straight line, in any local authority
- Upton St James CofE Primary SchoolThis schoolThis schoolGraded · no overall grade20242.1applications per place 36%met the SATs standard
- 0.6 km · TorbayGood20241.4applications per place 71%met the SATs standard
- 0.8 km · Torbay20261.7applications per place 57%met the SATs standard
- 0.8 km · Torbay20261.6applications per place 84%met the SATs standard
- 1.0 km · TorbayRemains Good20232.1applications per place 54%met the SATs standard
- 1.1 km · TorbayGood20222.4applications per place 44%met the SATs standard
- 1.1 km · TorbayGraded · no overall grade20251.5applications per place 46%met the SATs standard
- 1.3 km · TorbayGood20221.8applications per place 50%met the SATs standard
- 1.3 km · TorbayRemains Good20232.1applications per place 53%met the SATs standard
- Exceptional
- Strong standard
- Expected standard
- Needs attention
- Urgent improvement
- Does not apply
Eight dots, one per area: inclusion, curriculum, achievement, attendance, personal development, early years, post-16, leadership. Colours follow Ofsted's report card scale; Schoolfile is independent of Ofsted.
School details
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- URN · DfE number
- 142669 · 880/3120
- Religious character
- Church of England
- Capacity
- 105 pupils · 94 on roll
- Free school meals
- 45.7% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Opened
- 1 May 2016
- Replaced
- Upton St James CofE Primary School (URN 113402)
- Address
- St James Road, Upton, Torquay, TQ1 4AZ
- Local authority
- Torbay
Data last changed 3 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources