Bere Alston Primary Academy
Primary · Academy sponsor led · Ages 2–11 · Yelverton, 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 🔒
Bere Alston Primary Academy is a primary school in Yelverton, Devon for ages 2–11 (academy sponsor led). 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.
Bere Alston 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 for Reception in 2026 was offered a place, as was the case at 225 of the 298 other Devon primary schools with a published Reception 2026 outcome.
- Reception in 2026 had 11 first-choice applications for 11 offers, and every first-choice family was offered a place.
- 2024/25: 28% met the expected reading, writing and maths standard, lowest of 8 schools: this one and the 7 of the 8 nearest primary schools in Devon that have results.
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, Bere Alston, Yelverton, PL20 7AU
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 2–11
- Council
- Devon
- Pupils on roll
- 106 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 28.3% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 17.9
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 5 March 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils enjoy attending Bere Alston Primary Academy.”
- “They say that the school’s values, promoted through ‘give me 5’, help the school to be a happy, safe place to learn.”
- “Pupils respond positively to the school’s high expectations.”
To improve
- “However, in some subjects, the school is still developing assessment systems.”
- “In these subjects, assessment information is not yet used well enough to check on what pupils know.”
- “For example, in history pupils can recall what they have learned about Victorians but are not confident about Mayans.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 8 May 2024 (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) | 28% | 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.
- St Andrew's Church of England Academy 3.0 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Gulworthy Primary Academy 3.6 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Whitchurch Community Primary School 4.5 mi Good Last distance published
- Tavistock Primary & Nursery School 4.7 mi School remains Good (Concerns) - S5 Next Last distance published
- Horrabridge Primary & Nursery School 4.8 mi Good Last distance published
- Bickleigh Down Church of England Primary School 5.3 mi Good Last distance published
- St Rumon's Church of England Infants School 5.3 mi Good Last distance published
- St Peter's Church of England Junior School 5.3 mi Good