Bratton Fleming Community Primary School
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 4–11 · Barnstaple, 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 🔒
Bratton Fleming Community Primary School is a primary school in Barnstaple, Devon for ages 4–11 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 2 November 2022. Devon has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2026 entry.
Bratton Fleming Community 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 applicant was offered a place for Reception 2026, as at 225 of the 298 other Devon primary schools with a published Reception 2026 outcome.
- In 2024/25, 33% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of primary school (England 62%), and 0% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- Reception 2026 had 20 places, with 11 first-choice applications for 11 offers, and every first-choice family was offered a place.
- 12.9% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 18.9% across the 8 nearest primary schools in Devon.
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
- Station Road, Bratton Fleming, Station Road, Barnstaple, EX31 4SB
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Council
- Devon
- Pupils on roll
- 70 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 12.9% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 13.5
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 2 November 2022
Strengths
- “Pupils at Bratton Fleming are respectful and considerate.”
- “Leaders and governors have high expectations of everyone.”
- “They challenge the school to live up to its motto: ‘Pride in all we do’.”
To improve
- “Leaders recognise that, in a few subjects, the curriculum does not help pupils to remember and build on what they learn.”
- “Teachers’ subject knowledge is sometimes insecure.”
- “This makes it difficult for them to plan effective sequences of learning for pupils, or to emphasise the right things.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 16 December 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) | 33% | 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: 11 first-preference applications, 11 offers in total, 11 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.
- Shirwell Community Primary School 3.2 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Brayford Academy 3.4 mi Good Last distance published
- Goodleigh Church of England Primary School 3.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Kentisbury Primary School 3.8 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Parracombe Church of England Primary School 4.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Orchard Vale Community School 4.8 mi Good Last distance published
- Swimbridge Church of England Primary School 5.0 mi Good Last distance published
- Landkey Community Primary Academy 5.2 mi School remains Good Last distance published