Whipton Barton Infants and Nursery School
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 2–7 · 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 🔒
Whipton Barton Infants and Nursery School is a primary school in Exeter, Devon for ages 2–7 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 4 July 2023. Devon has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2026 entry.
Whipton Barton Infants and Nursery 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 Reception applicant was offered a place in 2026, as was the case at 225 of the 298 other Devon primary schools with a published Reception 2026 outcome.
- For Reception in 2026 there were 32 first-choice applications for 36 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 4 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- 46.6% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, where the middle figure across the 8 nearest primary schools in Devon is 20%.
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
- Whipton Barton Infant and Nursery School, Hiil Lane, Whipton, Exeter, EX1 3JP
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 2–7
- Council
- Devon
- Pupils on roll
- 204 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 46.6% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 21
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 4 July 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils are happy and safe at Whipton Barton Infants and Nursery School.”
- “They are proud of their school and want to do well.”
- “Pupils embrace the school values ‘caring, honest, organised, inquisitive, courteous, engaged, safe and smart’.”
To improve
- “However, assessment is not used with enough precision to identify misconceptions or to establish if pupils are ready for new learning.”
- “As a result, some pupils do not build their knowledge as well as they could.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 19 September 2023 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 32 first-preference applications, 36 offers in total, 32 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.
- Whipton Barton Junior School 0.0 mi Good
- Willowbrook School 0.4 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St Nicholas Catholic Primary School 0.6 mi Not judged Last distance published
- St Michael's Church of England Primary Academy 0.7 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Ladysmith Infant & Nursery School 0.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Ladysmith Junior School 0.8 mi No Ofsted grade
- Monkerton Community Primary School 1.0 mi Good Last distance published
- Stoke Hill Infant and Nursery School 1.0 mi Not judged Last distance published