Hartland Primary School
Primary · Foundation school · Ages 2–11 · Bideford, 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 🔒
Hartland Primary School is a primary school in Bideford, Devon for ages 2–11 (foundation school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Standards maintained, from the inspection on 21 January 2025. Devon has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2026 entry.
Hartland 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, 79% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 16% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- Its 2024/25 reading, writing and maths result was the highest of 8 schools: this one and the 7 of the 8 nearest primary schools in Devon that have results.
- Every applicant was offered a Reception 2026 place, as at 225 of the 298 other Devon primary schools with a published Reception 2026 outcome.
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
- North Road, Hartland, Bideford, EX39 6BP
- Type
- Foundation school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 2–11
- Council
- Devon
- Pupils on roll
- 106 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 17% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 19.4
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Standards maintained Inspected 21 January 2025
Strengths
- “Staff at Hartland care deeply about the education and well-being of all pupils.”
- “The school wants every child to listen, learn, enjoy and achieve.”
- “A great deal of thought and effort goes in to ensuring that every pupil gets the help and support they need to do well.”
To improve
- “However, the key knowledge pupils need to gain is not as clearly identified for early writing as it is for reading.”
- “This means that teachers are not consistently prioritising the most important knowledge and do not check how well this has been understood.”
- “Some other processes, although useful when initially introduced, now have little impact on pupils’ learning.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 5 March 2025 (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) | 79% | 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: 11 first-preference applications, 11 offers in total, 11 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.
- Woolsery Primary School 4.9 mi Good Last distance published
- Bradworthy Primary Academy 7.5 mi Requires improvement Last distance published
- Parkham Primary School 8.1 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St Helen's Church of England School 10.2 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Buckland Brewer Primary School 10.2 mi Requires improvement Last distance published
- West Croft School 11.7 mi Good Last distance published
- St Margaret's Church of England Junior School 12.0 mi No Ofsted grade
- St George's CofE Infant and Nursery School 12.0 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published