St Mary's Catholic Primary School, Buckfast
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 3–11 · Buckfastleigh, Devon
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
Not published
From Devon County Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2024–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
St Mary's Catholic Primary School, Buckfast is a primary school in Buckfastleigh, Devon for ages 3–11 (academy converter). Devon has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2026 entry.
St Mary's Catholic Primary School, Buckfast 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 | Not published |
| 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
- Free school meal eligibility is 30.4% of pupils, against a middle figure of 19.6% across the 8 nearest primary schools in Devon.
- Reception 2026 drew 26 first-choice applications for 26 offers, against a published admission number of 20 places; every first-choice family was offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 61% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 0% 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
- Buckfast Road, Buckfast, Buckfastleigh, TQ11 0EA
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Council
- Devon
- Pupils on roll
- 168 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 30.4% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 19.5
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
No Ofsted grade Inspected 3 February 2026
Strengths
- “Pupils feel safe and happy in school.”
- “They behave kindly towards one another.”
- “Pupils, parents and carers value the warm welcome staff provide each morning.”
To improve
- “The quality of curriculum and teaching across the school varies too much.”
- “Some pupils do not achieve as well as they should because staff do not hold high enough expectations of pupils’ work or behaviour in lessons.”
- “Teachers' checks on pupils' learning and their feedback to pupils about what to do to improve, do not reliably help pupils to address gaps in their knowledge and correct misconceptions.”
Safeguarding: met
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 27 April 2026 (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) | 61% | 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: 26 first-preference applications, 26 offers in total, 26 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.
- Buckfastleigh Primary School 0.8 mi Good Last distance published
- Ashburton Primary School 1.9 mi Good Last distance published
- Landscove Church of England Primary School 2.2 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Broadhempston Village Primary School 3.8 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Dartington Church of England Academy 4.1 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- South Brent Primary School 5.1 mi Good Last distance published
- Denbury Primary School 5.2 mi Good Last distance published
- The Grove School 5.8 mi Good Last distance published