Whimple Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 4–11 · 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 🔒
Whimple Primary School is a primary school in Exeter, Devon for ages 4–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 13 December 2022. Devon has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2026 entry.
Whimple 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 | 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
- In 2024/25, 58% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 0% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- In 2026 Reception, there were 13 first-choice applications for 19 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 6 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- 5.6% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 18.3% across the 8 nearest primary schools in Devon.
- At 0.7 first choices per offer in 2026 Reception, it was the 5th lowest of 294 Devon primary schools.
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
- Whimple, Exeter, EX5 2TS
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Council
- Devon
- Pupils on roll
- 125 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 5.6% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 18.3
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 13 December 2022
Strengths
- “Pupils are kind, polite and friendly towards each other.”
- “They say that there is some bullying, but that teachers resolve it quickly.”
- “Pupils enjoy learning a range of subjects.”
To improve
- “However, in some subjects, leaders acknowledge that there is further work to do to ensure that pupils learn well.”
- “Where this is the case, pupils do not develop sufficiently strong knowledge in order to move on to more complex ideas.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 8 February 2023 (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) | 58% | 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: 13 first-preference applications, 19 offers in total, 13 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.
- Rockbeare Church of England Primary School and Pre-School 2.2 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- West Hill Primary School 2.6 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Clyst Hydon Primary School 2.7 mi Good Last distance published
- St Martin's CofE Primary & Nursery School 2.9 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Plymtree Church of England Primary School 3.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Feniton Church of England Primary School 3.6 mi Good Last distance published
- Broadclyst Community Primary School 3.8 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Payhembury Church of England Primary School 3.8 mi School remains Good Last distance published