Alphington Primary School
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 2–11 · 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 🔒
Alphington Primary School is a primary school in Exeter, Devon for ages 2–11 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Standards maintained, from the inspection on 5 March 2025. Devon has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2026 entry.
Alphington 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 Reception 2026 applicant was offered a place, as at 225 of the 298 other Devon primary schools with a published Reception 2026 outcome.
- Reception 2026 had 48 first-choice applications for 49 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 1 offer went to a family who ranked it second or lower.
- In 2024/25, 66% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), the 3rd highest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest primary schools in Devon.
- In 2024/25, 3% 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
- Wheatsheaf Way, Alphington, Exeter, EX2 8RQ
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 2–11
- Council
- Devon
- Pupils on roll
- 472 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 15.5% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 25.8
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Standards maintained Inspected 5 March 2025
Strengths
- “Pupils enjoy coming to school.”
- “They know that staff care about them and want them to do well.”
- “This helps all pupils, especially pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND), to settle well and make progress through the curriculum.”
To improve
- “However, there is more to do, and the trust has invested in further training for staff.”
- “However, in a few subjects, the curriculum is less well developed.”
- “The school has not successfully identified the critical knowledge that pupils need to remember or ensured that staff use effective teaching approaches.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 6 May 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) | 66% | 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: 48 first-preference applications, 49 offers in total, 48 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.
- Ide Primary School 0.9 mi Good Last distance published
- St Thomas Primary School 1.0 mi Good Last distance published
- Bowhill Primary School 1.1 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Montgomery Primary School 1.3 mi Not judged Last distance published
- St Leonard's (CofE) Primary School 1.3 mi Not judged Last distance published
- St Gabriel's CofE Primary School 1.6 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- St David's CofE Primary School 1.7 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Wynstream Primary School Academy 1.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published