Matford Brook Academy
All-through · Free schools · Ages 2–16 · Exeter, Devon
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
Not published
From Devon County Council · offers on 16 April 2026
Year 7 2026: Every applicant was offered a place
2025 figure 🔒
Matford Brook Academy is an all-through school in Exeter, Devon for ages 2–16 (free schools). Devon has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception and Year 7 2024 to 2026 entry.
Matford Brook 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 | Not published |
| Year 7 2026 | Every applicant was offered a place |
| Reception 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- In 2026, Reception had 16 first-choice applications for 16 offers, and every first-choice family was offered a place.
- For Year 7 in 2026, every applicant was offered a place.
- In the January 2026 census the school had 276 pupils on roll, with 15.5 pupils per teacher.
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
- March Close, Matford, Exeter, EX2 0BZ
- Type
- Free schools
- Phase
- All-through
- Ages
- 2–16
- Council
- Devon
- Pupils on roll
- 276 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 30.1% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 15.5
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
No Ofsted grade
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 16 first-preference applications, 16 offers in total, 16 offers to first-preference applicants.
- 2026 Year 7 entry: 42 first-preference applications, 47 offers in total, 42 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 special, independent and other schools
Straight-line distance, in Devon.
- The Outdoors School 0.9 mi No Ofsted grade
- Exeter Pre-Prep School 1.4 mi No Ofsted grade
- Southbrook School 1.8 mi Not judged
- Belong School Devon 2.1 mi No Ofsted grade
- Magdalen Court School 2.1 mi No Ofsted grade
- Devon Hospitals' Short Stay School 2.1 mi School remains Good
- Exeter School 2.3 mi No Ofsted grade
- Torlands Academy 2.3 mi Good