South Tawton Primary School
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 2–11 · Okehampton, Devon
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
3.26 miles
Published by Devon County Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2024–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
South Tawton Primary School is a primary school in Okehampton, Devon for ages 2–11 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 29 June 2022. Devon has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2026 entry.
South Tawton 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 | 3.26 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 2026 Reception last distance offered was 3.26 miles, 8th longest of 42 Devon primary schools with a published last distance (middle figure 1.50 miles).
- Every Reception applicant was offered a place in 2 of the 3 years with a published outcome, but not in 2026.
- Reception in 2026 had 34 first-choice applications for 30 offers; 30 offers went to first-choice families, and 4 first-choice families (12%) were not offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 58% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%); 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
- Tawton Lane, South Zeal, Okehampton, EX20 2LG
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 2–11
- Council
- Devon
- Pupils on roll
- 201 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 11.9% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 19.9
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 29 June 2022
Strengths
- “Pupils are proud to belong to South Tawton Primary School.”
- “They recognise it as a place where they are valued as individuals.”
- “Mutual respect is a key feature of the school.”
To improve
- “However, in some subjects, leaders have not considered in enough detail the most important knowledge that pupils need to remember.”
- “As a result, in these subjects, pupils do not yet remember their learning as well as they could.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 21 September 2022 (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) | 58% | 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: 34 first-preference applications, 30 offers in total, 30 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.
- St James Church of England Primary and Nursery School 3.6 mi Good Last distance published
- Spreyton School 3.6 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Okehampton Primary School and Foundation Unit 4.2 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Chagford Church of England Primary School 4.7 mi Good Last distance published
- North Tawton Community Primary School and Nursery 5.0 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Exbourne Church of England Primary School 6.0 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Bow Community Primary School 6.6 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Cheriton Bishop Community Primary School 7.6 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published