Seaton Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 4–11 · Seaton, Devon
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
5.21 miles
Published by Devon County Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2024–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Seaton Primary School is a primary school in Seaton, Devon for ages 4–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 11 June 2024. Devon has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2026 entry.
Seaton Primary 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 | 5.21 mi |
| 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
- The last child offered a Reception place for 2026 lived 5.21 miles away, the 4th longest of 42 Devon primary schools with a published Reception 2026 last distance.
- Reception 2026 had 68 first-choice applications for 60 offers; 60 offers went to first-choice families, and 8 first-choice families were not offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 76% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 10% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- The 2024/25 reading, writing and maths result was the highest of 6 schools: this one and the 5 of the 8 nearest primary schools in Devon that have results.
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
- Valley View, Seaton, EX12 2HF
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Council
- Devon
- Pupils on roll
- 377 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 12.2% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 21.2
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 11 June 2024
Strengths
- “Seaton Primary School is a happy place to be.”
- “The motto 'proud of who we are' permeates through the school.”
- “Pupils are polite, well-mannered and considerate of others.”
To improve
- “However, in a small minority of subjects, the knowledge pupils need to learn is not as precise.”
- “As a result, some pupils are not learning these subjects as well.”
- “Within the small minority of subjects in need of further development, assessment is not yet precise in identifying what pupils know and remember.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 11 July 2024 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Exam results
| Measure | School | England |
|---|---|---|
| Key stage 2 · reading, writing and maths, expected standard (2024/25) | 76% | 62% |
Department for Education school performance data. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 68 first-preference applications, 60 offers in total, 60 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.
- Beer Church of England Primary School 1.5 mi Good Last distance published
- Colyton Primary Academy 1.9 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Musbury Primary School 3.0 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Branscombe Church of England Primary School 3.3 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Shute Community Primary School 4.2 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Kilmington Primary School 4.7 mi Requires improvement Last distance published
- Mrs Ethelston's CofE Primary Academy 5.3 mi Good Last distance published
- Farway Church of England Primary School 5.6 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published