Horrabridge Primary & Nursery School
Primary · Foundation school · Ages 2–11 · Yelverton, Devon
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
3.81 miles
Published by Devon County Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2024–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Horrabridge Primary & Nursery School is a primary school in Yelverton, Devon for ages 2–11 (foundation school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 10 October 2023. Devon has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2026 entry.
Horrabridge Primary & Nursery 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 | 3.81 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
- In 2024/25, 68% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 6% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- The last child offered a Reception place in 2026 lived 3.81 miles away, the 7th longest of 42 Devon primary schools with a published Reception 2026 last distance.
- Reception 2026 saw 33 first-choice applications for 30 offers; all 30 went to first-choice families, and 3 first-choice families (9%) were not offered a place.
- Free school meal eligibility stands at 21.7% of pupils, against a middle figure of 9.6% 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
- Walkhampton Road, Horrabridge, Yelverton, PL20 7SZ
- Type
- Foundation school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 2–11
- Council
- Devon
- Pupils on roll
- 184 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 21.7% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 21.4
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 10 October 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils flourish at Horrabridge Primary & Nursery School.”
- “They talk about their school, and what it enables them to achieve, with a sense of pride.”
- “Pupils are vibrant and confident individuals.”
To improve
- “Some subjects in the curriculum are not established as well.”
- “The curriculum design in mathematics is an example of this.”
- “This is still in its early stages and the impact is not yet clear.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 21 November 2023 (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) | 68% | 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: 33 first-preference applications, 30 offers in total, 30 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.
- Lady Modiford's Church of England Primary School 1.0 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- St Andrew's Church of England Academy 1.9 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Meavy Church of England Primary School 2.3 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Whitchurch Community Primary School 2.8 mi Good Last distance published
- St Peter's Church of England Junior School 3.5 mi Good
- Tavistock Primary & Nursery School 3.6 mi School remains Good (Concerns) - S5 Next Last distance published
- St Rumon's Church of England Infants School 3.7 mi Good Last distance published
- Gulworthy Primary Academy 4.8 mi Not judged Last distance published