Whitchurch Community Primary School
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 4–11 · Tavistock, Devon
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
Not published
From Devon County Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2024–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Whitchurch Community Primary School is a primary school in Tavistock, Devon for ages 4–11 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 17 October 2023. Devon has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2026 entry.
Whitchurch 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 | Not published |
| 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
- In 2024/25, 66% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 13% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- There were 30 first-choice applications for 30 Reception offers in 2026, and every first-choice family was offered a place.
- 19.8% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 14.9% across the 8 nearest primary schools in Devon.
- Pupils per teacher stand at 23.9, against a middle figure of 21.4 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
- School Road, Whitchurch, Tavistock, PL19 9SR
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Council
- Devon
- Pupils on roll
- 202 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 19.8% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 23.9
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 17 October 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils are proud and happy to attend their caring school.”
- “They use their ‘ACE’ values to help them to behave respectfully.”
- “Pupils are kind and polite towards everyone.”
To improve
- “However, in some subjects, the school does not have an overview of how well the curriculum is taught or how well pupils learn it.”
- “This results in some pupils not learning key content securely before they move on.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 29 November 2023 (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) | 66% | 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: 30 first-preference applications, 30 offers in total, 30 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.
- Tavistock Primary & Nursery School 0.8 mi School remains Good (Concerns) - S5 Next Last distance published
- St Peter's Church of England Junior School 0.9 mi Good
- St Rumon's Church of England Infants School 1.0 mi Good Last distance published
- Gulworthy Primary Academy 2.4 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Horrabridge Primary & Nursery School 2.8 mi Good Last distance published
- St Andrew's Church of England Academy 2.9 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Lamerton CofE Primary Academy 3.4 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Lady Modiford's Church of England Primary School 3.5 mi Standards maintained Last distance published