Stoke Hill Infant and Nursery School
Primary · Community school · Ages 3–7 · Exeter, Devon
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
Every applicant was offered a place
From Devon County Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2024–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Stoke Hill Infant and Nursery School is a primary school in Exeter, Devon for ages 3–7 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Not judged, from the inspection on 25 February 2025. Devon has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2026 entry.
Stoke Hill Infant and Nursery School catchment area: last distance offered
Parents often call this the catchment area: it's how far from the school the last child offered a place lived. It changes every year.
| Entry | Last distance offered |
|---|---|
| Reception 2026 | Every applicant was offered a place |
| Reception 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- There were 54 first-choice applications for 57 offers for Reception in 2026, or 0.9 first choices per offer, the 68th lowest of 294 Devon primary schools.
- Every applicant for a Reception place in 2026 was offered one, as at 225 of the 298 other Devon primary schools with a published Reception 2026 outcome.
- Its latest Ofsted outcome was Not judged (25 February 2025); the previous graded outcome was Outstanding (8 July 2015).
- 12.3% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 20% across the 8 nearest primary schools in Devon.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Devon schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Stoke Hill, Exeter, EX4 7DB
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–7
- Council
- Devon
- Pupils on roll
- 284 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 12.3% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 20.3
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Not judged Inspected 25 February 2025
Strengths
- “Pupils are happy and proud to be a part of Stoke Hill.”
- “They enjoy coming to school and show positive attitudes to their learning.”
- “Pupils move around the school sensibly knowing what is expected of them.”
To improve
- “However, there is variability in some subjects.”
- “On occasions, the work given to pupils does not always meet the high ambition of the curriculum, including in the early years.”
- “Sometimes, teachers are not clear when pupils may need additional support or if they are ready for further challenge.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 20 March 2025 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 54 first-preference applications, 57 offers in total, 54 offers to first-preference applicants.
Department for Education, school-level applications and offers, figures on national offer day. Earlier years are in the pass.
Nearby primary schools
Straight-line distance, in Devon.
- Stoke Hill Junior School 0.2 mi School remains Good
- Ladysmith Junior School 0.6 mi No Ofsted grade
- Ladysmith Infant & Nursery School 0.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St Sidwell's Church of England Primary School & Nursery 0.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Newtown Primary School 0.8 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Willowbrook School 0.9 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St Michael's Church of England Primary Academy 1.0 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Whipton Barton Infants and Nursery School 1.0 mi School remains Good Last distance published