Shebbear Community School
Primary · Community school · Ages 4–11 · Beaworthy, Devon
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
4.04 miles
Published by Devon County Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2024–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Shebbear Community School is a primary school in Beaworthy, Devon for ages 4–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 25 May 2022. Devon has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2026 entry.
Shebbear Community 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 | 4.04 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 Reception 2026 place went to a child 4.04 miles away: 5th longest of 42 Devon primary schools with a published Reception 2026 last distance (middle figure 1.50 miles).
- For Reception 2026 there were 11 first-choice applications for 10 offers; 10 offers went to first-choice families, and 1 first-choice family (9%) was not offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 70% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), while 0% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- Its 2024/25 reading, writing and maths figure was the 2nd highest of 5 schools: this one and the 4 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
- Shebbear, Beaworthy, EX21 5SG
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Council
- Devon
- Pupils on roll
- 54 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 22.2% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 13.7
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 25 May 2022
Strengths
- “Pupils enjoy coming to this friendly school.”
- “The family ethos that pervades the school helps pupils who are new to the community to settle well.”
- “They get on well with each other and have positive relationships with staff.”
To improve
- “Pupils say that in the past, occasional incidents of bullying did happen.”
- “However, it is too early to see any discernible impact.”
- “There is a small number of children in the early years who have fallen behind in learning to read.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 19 July 2022 (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) | 70% | 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, 10 offers in total, 10 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.
- Bradford Primary School 2.7 mi Good Last distance published
- Black Torrington Church of England Primary School 2.7 mi Requires improvement Last distance published
- Langtree Community School and Nursery Unit 4.0 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Highampton Community Primary School 4.1 mi Good Last distance published
- The Clinton Church of England Primary School 5.5 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Halwill Community Primary School 6.0 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Holsworthy Church of England Primary School 6.9 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Hatherleigh Community Primary School 6.9 mi Good Last distance published