Report card · inspected Nov 2025
- Exceptional
- Strong standard
- Expected standard
- Needs attention
- Urgent improvement
Safeguarding standards met
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What did Ofsted find?
Ofsted data to 30 September 2026| Area | Exceptional | Strong standard | Expected standard | Needs attention | Urgent improvement |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inclusion | Strong standard | ||||
| Curriculum and teaching | Expected standard | ||||
| Achievement | Expected standard | ||||
| Attendance and behaviour | Expected standard | ||||
| Personal development and wellbeing | Expected standard | ||||
| Early years | Expected standard | ||||
| Post-16 provision | Does not apply to this school | ||||
| Leadership and governance | Expected standard | ||||
- Exceptional
- Strong standard
- Expected standard
- Needs attention
- Urgent improvement
- Does not apply
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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 entry37 applications · 37 places offered · 33 named it first
FaithMay give priority to families of the faith.
- 2026 1.0; Devon median median 1.5
- 2025 1.3; Devon median median 1.5
- 2024 1.4; Devon median median 1.6
- 2023 1.4; Devon median median 1.6; as the previous school
- 2022 1.6; Devon median median 1.6; as the previous school
- 2021 1.5; Devon median median 1.6; as the previous school
- 2020 1.4; Devon median median 1.6; as the previous school
- 2019 1.6; Devon median median 1.6; as the previous school
- 2018 1.4; Devon median median 1.6; as the previous school
- 2017 1.5; Devon median median 1.6; as the previous school
- 2016 1.6; Devon median median 1.6; as the previous school
- 2015 1.4; Devon median median 1.7; as the previous school
- 2014 1.3; Devon median median 1.6; as the previous school
- This school
- Devon median
Dashed bars: as St George's Church of England (VA) Infant and Nursery School (URN 113456), 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 | 37 | 37 | 1.0 | 33 | 0.89 |
| Sep 2025 | 31 | 40 | 1.3 | 30 | 0.97 |
| Sep 2024 | 30 | 43 | 1.4 | 29 | 0.97 |
| Sep 2023 * | 30 | 42 | 1.4 | 26 | 0.87 |
| Sep 2022 * | 32 | 51 | 1.6 | 32 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2021 * | 52 | 79 | 1.5 | 49 | 0.94 |
| Sep 2020 * | 55 | 77 | 1.4 | 44 | 0.80 |
| Sep 2019 * | 45 | 73 | 1.6 | 41 | 0.91 |
| Sep 2018 * | 59 | 84 | 1.4 | 45 | 0.76 |
| Sep 2017 * | 60 | 87 | 1.5 | 63 | 1.05 |
| Sep 2016 * | 60 | 98 | 1.6 | 58 | 0.97 |
| Sep 2015 * | 73 | 101 | 1.4 | 67 | 0.92 |
| Sep 2014 * | 49 | 62 | 1.3 | 40 | 0.82 |
Schools nearby
The 8 nearest primary schools in a straight line, in any local authority
- St George's CofE Infant and Nursery SchoolThis schoolThis school20251.0applications per place
- 0.2 km · DevonRequires improvement202046%met the SATs standard
- 1.5 km · DevonGood20231.6applications per place 79%met the SATs standard
- 2.2 km · DevonRemains Good20232.0applications per place 57%met the SATs standard
- 3.5 km · DevonSpecial measures 20261.3applications per place 38%met the SATs standard
- 3.7 km · DevonRemains Good20231.3applications per place 69%met the SATs standard
- 3.8 km · DevonRemains Good20231.8applications per place 72%met the SATs standard
- 3.8 km · DevonRemains Good20222.1applications per place 57%met the SATs standard
- 6.8 km · DevonGraded · no overall grade20251.4applications per place 46%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
- 150076 · 878/3461
- Religious character
- Church of England
- Capacity
- 157 pupils · 110 on roll
- Free school meals
- 21.8% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Nursery
- Has nursery classes
- Opened
- 1 October 2023
- Replaced
- St George's Church of England (VA) Infant and Nursery School (URN 113456)
- Address
- Jackets Lane, Northam, Bideford, EX39 1HT
Data last changed 3 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources