Kings Nympton Community Primary School
Primary · Foundation school · Ages 4–11 · Umberleigh, 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 🔒
Kings Nympton Community Primary School is a primary school in Umberleigh, Devon for ages 4–11 (foundation school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 18 October 2022. Devon has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2026 entry.
Kings Nympton Community 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.
- 2026 Reception entry had 4 first-choice applications for 4 offers, and every first-choice family was offered a place.
- With 17 pupils on roll in January 2026, there are 8.5 pupils per teacher, against a middle figure of 19 across the 8 nearest primary schools in Devon.
- Free school meal eligibility is 58.8% of pupils; the middle figure across the 8 nearest primary schools in Devon is 19.7%.
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
- Kings Nympton, Umberleigh, EX37 9SP
- Type
- Foundation school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Council
- Devon
- Pupils on roll
- 17 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 58.8% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 8.5
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 18 October 2022
Strengths
- “Pupils feel supported and well cared for in this small, inclusive school.”
- “They say that at Kings Nympton ‘everyone looks out for each other’.”
- “Parents are positive about the nurture and help their children receive.”
To improve
- “However, this is not the same for all subjects.”
- “In geography and history, the knowledge that teachers want pupils to know and remember is not sufficiently ordered towards planned end points.”
- “Consequently, pupils across the mixed-age classes do not deepen their understanding over time.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 29 November 2022 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 4 first-preference applications, 4 offers in total, 4 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.
- Chulmleigh Primary School 2.9 mi Good Last distance published
- South Molton United CofE Primary School 4.0 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- South Molton Community Primary School 4.6 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- High Bickington Church of England Primary Academy 5.2 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Umberleigh Primary Academy 5.3 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Bishops Nympton Primary School 5.4 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Filleigh Community Primary School 5.5 mi Not judged Last distance published
- East Worlington Primary School 6.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published