Riverside Community Primary School

Primary · Foundation school · Ages 3–11 · Plymouth

Last distance offered · Reception 2026

0.37 miles

Published by Plymouth City Council · offers on 16 April 2026

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Riverside Community Primary School is a primary school in Plymouth for ages 3–11 (foundation school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 11 May 2023. Plymouth has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2026 entry.

Riverside 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	0.37 mi

What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment

What the figures show

In 2026, the last child offered a Reception place lived 0.37 miles from the school, the 2nd shortest of 67 Plymouth primary schools with a published Reception 2026 last distance.
Reception 2026 had 43 first-choice applications for 45 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 2 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
In 2024/25, 76% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), while 3% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
The 2024/25 reading, writing and maths result was the 2nd highest of 8 schools: this one and the 7 of the 8 nearest primary schools in Plymouth that have results.

Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Plymouth schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.

Key facts

Address: 210 Poole Park Road, St Budeaux, Plymouth, PL5 1DD
Type: Foundation school
Phase: Primary
Ages: 3–11
Council: Plymouth
Pupils on roll: 370 January 2026 school census
Free school meals: 52.4% of pupils eligible
Pupils per teacher: 15.5

Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026

Ofsted

School remains Good Inspected 11 May 2023

Strengths

“Riverside is an inclusive school that is warm and welcoming.”
“Pupils learn to respect and value everyone.”
“Consequently, pupils behave well in lessons and at social times.”

To improve

“Nevertheless, some of the choices of activities, in some subjects, do not always support pupils to develop their knowledge.”
“However, in some subjects, pupils do not develop a secure understanding of subject-specific vocabulary.”
“However, governors do not have a sharp enough grasp on the impact of the additional funding provided for these pupils.”

Safeguarding: Effective

Quoted from the Ofsted report published 22 June 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)	76%	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: 43 first-preference applications, 45 offers in total, 43 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 Plymouth.

St Paul's Roman Catholic Primary School 0.4 mi School remains Good Last distance published
Victoria Road Primary 0.5 mi Not judged Last distance published
Weston Mill Community Primary Academy 0.7 mi Not judged Last distance published
Drake Primary Academy 0.8 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
Keyham Barton Catholic Primary School 0.8 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
Marine Academy Primary 0.9 mi Outstanding Last distance published
Plaistow Hill Primary and Nursery School 1.0 mi School remains Good Last distance published
St Budeaux CofE Primary Academy 1.1 mi Standards maintained Last distance published