Roundswell Community Primary Academy
Primary · Free schools · Ages 3–11 · 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 🔒
Roundswell Community Primary Academy is a primary school in Barnstaple, Devon for ages 3–11 (free schools). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 13 June 2023. Devon has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2026 entry.
Roundswell Community Primary 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 | 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 in 2026, as at 225 of the 298 other Devon primary schools with a published 2026 outcome.
- Places ran out, with a last distance published, in 1 of the 2 earlier Reception years.
- For Reception 2026, there were 43 first-choice applications for 43 offers, and every first-choice family was offered a place.
- There are 23.7 pupils per teacher, against a middle figure of 20.7 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
- Roundswell School, Claypits Road, Roundswell, Barnstaple, EX31 3WJ
- Type
- Free schools
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Council
- Devon
- Pupils on roll
- 345 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 25.8% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 23.7
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 13 June 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils at Roundswell Community Primary Academy are happy, confident learners.”
- “They benefit from a deep sense of care, warmth and nurture from the dedicated staff team.”
- “Parents report that ‘staff really care’.”
To improve
- “However, in some subjects, leaders have not identified the important knowledge that pupils need to know to prepare them for what comes next.”
- “Moreover, subject leaders do not know how well pupils learn the planned curriculum.”
- “Therefore, while pupils learn well in some subjects, this is not the case across the curriculum.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 28 July 2023 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 43 first-preference applications, 43 offers in total, 43 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.
- Sticklepath Community Primary Academy 0.7 mi Good Last distance published
- Fremington Primary School 1.4 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Holywell Church of England School 1.8 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Pilton Bluecoat Church of England Academy 1.9 mi Good Last distance published
- Pilton Infants' Academy 2.0 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Ashleigh CofE Primary School 2.1 mi Good Last distance published
- Yeo Valley Primary School 2.1 mi Good Last distance published
- Our Lady's Catholic Primary School, Barnstaple 2.3 mi Not judged Last distance published