Doddiscombsleigh Primary School
Primary · Foundation 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 🔒
Doddiscombsleigh Primary School is a primary school in Exeter, Devon for ages 4–11 (foundation school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 26 April 2023. Devon has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2026 entry.
Doddiscombsleigh 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 applicant was offered a Reception place in 2026, as at 225 of the 298 other Devon primary schools with a published Reception 2026 outcome.
- Reception 2026 saw 5 first-choice applications for 5 offers, and every first-choice family was offered a place.
- With 38 pupils on roll in January 2026, it has 12.7 pupils per teacher, against a middle figure of 21.7 across the 8 nearest primary schools in Devon.
- Of its pupils, 5.3% are eligible for free school meals; the middle figure across the 8 nearest primary schools in Devon is 15.5%.
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
- Doddiscombsleigh, Exeter, EX6 7PR
- Type
- Foundation school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Council
- Devon
- Pupils on roll
- 38 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 5.3% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 12.7
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 26 April 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils are very happy coming to this small and friendly school.”
- “They are proud to be part of the ‘Doddi family’.”
- “Both school and federation leaders have high aspirations for all to achieve to the best of their ability.”
To improve
- “However, strategies for checking pupils’ knowledge in the wider curriculum are less well developed.”
- “This means that teachers and leaders are not always clear about what pupils need to learn next or where they have gaps in learning.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 16 June 2023 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 5 first-preference applications, 5 offers in total, 5 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.
- Christow Primary School 1.7 mi School remains Good (Improving) - S5 Next Last distance published
- Dunsford Community Academy 3.1 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Ide Primary School 3.7 mi Good Last distance published
- Kenn Church of England Primary School 3.8 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Hennock Community Primary School 3.9 mi School remains Good (Concerns) - S5 Next Last distance published
- Alphington Primary School 4.3 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Bowhill Primary School 4.6 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Chudleigh Church of England Community Primary School 4.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published