Ashwater Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 2–11 · Beaworthy, 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 🔒
Ashwater Primary School is a primary school in Beaworthy, Devon for ages 2–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 29 November 2022. Devon has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2026 entry.
Ashwater 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
- Every Reception 2026 applicant was offered a place, as at 225 of the 298 other Devon primary schools with a published Reception 2026 outcome.
- Reception 2026 had 7 first-choice applications for 7 offers, against a published admission number of 8 places, and every first-choice family was offered a place.
- 9.5% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 21% across the 8 nearest primary schools in Devon.
- The school has 14.4 pupils per teacher, against a middle figure of 16.7 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
- Ashwater, Beaworthy, EX21 5EW
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 2–11
- Council
- Devon
- Pupils on roll
- 42 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 9.5% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 14.4
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 29 November 2022
Strengths
- “Pupils at Ashwater Primary School model the ‘Carey Qualities’ to ‘aim high, be resilient and take care of each other’.”
- “They are happy to come to school and love to learn.”
- “Parents and carers who responded to the online survey, Ofsted Parent View, commented that their children receive effective support and nurture from staff.”
To improve
- “Despite this, in some subjects, the curriculum is not broken down into small enough steps of learning for some pupils in mixed-age classes.”
- “When this happens, pupils do not remember what they have learned well enough.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 31 January 2023 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 7 first-preference applications, 7 offers in total, 7 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.
- Clawton Primary School 3.0 mi Not judged Last distance published
- St Giles-on-the-Heath Community School 3.7 mi Good Last distance published
- Halwill Community Primary School 4.2 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Holsworthy Church of England Primary School 6.0 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Bradford Primary School 6.4 mi Good Last distance published
- Lifton Community Academy 6.6 mi Some aspects not as strong Last distance published
- Boasley Cross Community Primary School 7.0 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Lew Trenchard Church of England Primary School 7.0 mi Good Last distance published