Bowhill Primary School
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 5–11 · 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 🔒
Bowhill Primary School is a primary school in Exeter, Devon for ages 5–11 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Standards maintained, from the inspection on 14 May 2025. Devon has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2026 entry.
Bowhill 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
- Reception 2026 drew 57 first-choice applications for 57 offers, and every applicant was offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 55% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), the 2nd lowest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest primary schools in Devon.
- 1% of pupils reached the higher standard in reading, writing and maths in 2024/25 (England 8%).
- Ofsted's latest outcome, from 14 May 2025, was that standards were maintained.
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
- Buddle Lane, St Thomas, Exeter, EX4 1JT
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 5–11
- Council
- Devon
- Pupils on roll
- 451 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 16.4% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 21.5
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Standards maintained Inspected 14 May 2025
Strengths
- “Bowhill Primary School is a happy, welcoming and inclusive place to be.”
- “Pupils are respectful and courteous.”
- “They take pride in holding doors open and greeting others with a smile.”
To improve
- “However, occasionally, some pupils make repeated errors in their work that go unaddressed.”
- “This leads to pupils embedding these misconceptions.”
- “However, the expectations of how well pupils write across the wider curriculum are variable.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 20 June 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) | 55% | 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: 57 first-preference applications, 57 offers in total, 57 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.
- Montgomery Primary School 0.3 mi Not judged Last distance published
- St Thomas Primary School 0.4 mi Good Last distance published
- St Gabriel's CofE Primary School 0.4 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- St David's CofE Primary School 0.8 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Ide Primary School 0.9 mi Good Last distance published
- Exwick Heights Primary School 1.0 mi Good Last distance published
- Alphington Primary School 1.1 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- St Leonard's (CofE) Primary School 1.2 mi Not judged Last distance published