Graded inspection · May 2025 Previous framework
- Quality of education
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Personal development
- Leadership and management
This schoolOther primary schools in Devon
What did Ofsted find?
Ofsted data to 30 September 2026| Area | Outstanding | Good | Requires improvement | Inadequate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quality of education | Good | |||
| Behaviour and attitudes | Good | |||
| Personal development | Outstanding | |||
| Leadership and management | Good | |||
| 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 entry79 applications · 52 places offered · 52 named it first
- 2026 1.5; Devon median median 1.5
- 2025 1.5; Devon median median 1.5
- 2024 1.5; Devon median median 1.6
- 2023 1.5; Devon median median 1.6; as the previous school
- 2022 1.6; Devon median median 1.6; as the previous school
- 2021 1.8; Devon median median 1.6; as the previous school
- 2020 1.6; Devon median median 1.6; as the previous school
- 2019 1.5; Devon median median 1.6; as the previous school
- 2018 1.7; Devon median median 1.6; as the previous school
- 2017 1.7; Devon median median 1.6; as the previous school
- 2016 1.8; Devon median median 1.6; as the previous school
- 2015 1.8; Devon median median 1.7; as the previous school
- 2014 2.1; Devon median median 1.6; as the previous school
- This school
- Devon median
Dashed bars: as Pilton Infants' School (URN 113128), 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 | 52 | 79 | 1.5 | 52 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2025 | 50 | 74 | 1.5 | 50 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2024 | 59 | 86 | 1.5 | 58 | 0.98 |
| Sep 2023 * | 58 | 86 | 1.5 | 61 | 1.05 |
| Sep 2022 * | 59 | 93 | 1.6 | 60 | 1.02 |
| Sep 2021 * | 59 | 105 | 1.8 | 64 | 1.08 |
| Sep 2020 * | 60 | 94 | 1.6 | 60 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2019 * | 49 | 73 | 1.5 | 48 | 0.98 |
| Sep 2018 * | 60 | 104 | 1.7 | 72 | 1.20 |
| Sep 2017 * | 59 | 98 | 1.7 | 66 | 1.12 |
| Sep 2016 * | 59 | 105 | 1.8 | 52 | 0.88 |
| Sep 2015 * | 48 | 84 | 1.8 | 44 | 0.92 |
| Sep 2014 * | 59 | 122 | 2.1 | 77 | 1.31 |
Schools nearby
The 8 nearest primary schools in a straight line, in any local authority
- Pilton Infants' AcademyThis schoolThis schoolGraded · no overall grade20251.5applications per place
- 0.1 km · DevonGood202363%met the SATs standard
- 0.7 km · DevonGood20231.6applications per place 43%met the SATs standard
- 1.1 km · DevonGood20221.6applications per place 79%met the SATs standard
- 1.2 km · DevonGraded · no overall grade20251.3applications per place 50%met the SATs standard
- 2.0 km · DevonGood20221.7applications per place 60%met the SATs standard
- 2.0 km · Devon20261.1applications per place 54%met the SATs standard
- 2.2 km · DevonGraded · no overall grade20251.5applications per place 52%met the SATs standard
- 3.0 km · DevonGood20231.3applications per place 51%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
- 150074 · 878/2205
- Capacity
- 180 pupils · 172 on roll
- Free school meals
- 20.9% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Opened
- 1 November 2023
- Replaced
- Pilton Infants' School (URN 113128)
- Address
- Abbey Road, Barnstaple, EX31 1JU
- Local authority
- Devon · North Devon
Data last changed 3 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources