Newport Community School Primary Academy
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 3–11 · Barnstaple, Devon
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
9.35 miles
Published by Devon County Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2024–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Newport Community School Primary Academy is a primary school in Barnstaple, Devon for ages 3–11 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Not judged, from the inspection on 11 March 2025. Devon has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2026 entry.
Newport Community School Primary Academy 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 | 9.35 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 child offered a Reception place for 2026 lived 9.35 miles away, the 2nd longest of 42 Devon primary schools with a published last distance (middle figure 1.50 miles).
- Every applicant was offered a Reception place in 2 of the 3 years with a published outcome (2024, 2025 and 2026).
- For Reception 2026 there were 62 first-choice applications for 60 offers; 60 offers went to first-choice families and 2 first-choice families (3%) were not offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 52% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 8% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
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
- Landkey Road, Newport, Barnstaple, EX32 9BW
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- Devon
- Pupils on roll
- 469 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 21.7% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 22
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Not judged Inspected 11 March 2025
Strengths
- “Pupils, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND), flourish emotionally and academically in this successful school.”
- “Children make a wonderful start in the early years, where the school’s high expectations begin.”
- “As they move through the school, pupils consistently meet these expectations so that, by the end of key stage 2, they achieve very well, especially in English and mathematics.”
To improve
- “However, in key stage 1 and 2, the school is refining the curriculum in small minority of subjects to identify the most important knowledge that it wants pupils to know and remember.”
- “Sometimes, the tasks and activities which pupils complete do not match the intended learning.”
- “This means, at times, pupils’ learning does not build as securely as it could.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 30 April 2025 (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) | 52% | 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: 62 first-preference applications, 60 offers in total, 60 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.
- Eden Park Academy 0.4 mi Requires improvement Last distance published
- Ashleigh CofE Primary School 0.7 mi Good Last distance published
- Our Lady's Catholic Primary School, Barnstaple 0.7 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Orchard Vale Community School 0.9 mi Good Last distance published
- Yeo Valley Primary School 1.0 mi Good Last distance published
- Bishops Tawton Primary School 1.2 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Pilton Infants' Academy 1.4 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Pilton Bluecoat Church of England Academy 1.5 mi Good Last distance published