Highampton Community Primary School
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 4–11 · Beaworthy, Devon
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
Every applicant was offered a place
From Devon County Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2024–2025 trend 🔒
Highampton Community Primary School is a primary school in Beaworthy, Devon for ages 4–11 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 5 March 2024. Devon has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2026 entry.
Highampton 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
- Reception 2026 had 6 first-choice applications for 6 offers, and every first-choice family was offered a place.
- Every applicant was offered a place in Reception 2026, as at 225 of the 298 other Devon primary schools with a published Reception 2026 outcome.
- With 33 pupils on roll in January 2026, it has 10.2 pupils per teacher; the middle figure across the 8 nearest primary schools in Devon is 12.2.
- 30.3% of pupils are eligible for free school meals; the middle figure across the 8 nearest primary schools in Devon is 22.2%.
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
- Highampton, Beaworthy, EX21 5LE
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Council
- Devon
- Pupils on roll
- 33 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 30.3% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 10.2
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 5 March 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils enjoy learning at this small, rural school.”
- “Pupils treat each other with kindness.”
- “The school has high expectations of pupils’ behaviour.”
To improve
- “However, in a small number of subjects, the school has not considered how the curriculum in Year 1 builds on what pupils have previously learned in the early years.”
- “However, they do not know as much as they could about the lives of others from different families and cultures.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 30 April 2024 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 6 first-preference applications, 6 offers in total, 6 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.
- Black Torrington Church of England Primary School 1.6 mi Requires improvement Last distance published
- Hatherleigh Community Primary School 3.3 mi Good Last distance published
- Northlew and Ashbury Parochial Church of England Primary School 3.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Halwill Community Primary School 4.0 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Shebbear Community School 4.1 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Bradford Primary School 4.4 mi Good Last distance published
- The Clinton Church of England Primary School 5.1 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Boasley Cross Community Primary School 6.8 mi School remains Good Last distance published