Filleigh Community Primary School

Foundation school·Primary school Barnstaple, Devon·EX32 0RS
Composite score
13.0
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#14,690
National rank
#1599
In South West
#262
In Devon
Top 99%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
20%
% achieving higher RWM
0%
Reading average scaled score
97.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
95.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Ofsted judgements

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Quality of education
Good
Behaviour and attitudes
Good
Personal development
Good
Leadership and management
Good
Safeguarding effective?
Yes
Early years provision
Good

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
100%
10 first choices, 10 places
First choices per place
1.00
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
13
any preference, for 10 places
First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.20
00.511.5
1 per place
1.0020221.0020231.0020240.8020251.002026

Red dashed line = one first choice per place. How to read this

Every child who put Filleigh Community Primary School first was offered a place in 2026, so no distance cut-off applied: living further away did not cost a place that year.

Application figures: DfE, school level applications and offers (2026 intake).

School profile

Age range
3–11
Pupils on roll
66
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
28.6%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
0.0%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
12.1%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
3.0%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
5.4%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
12.5%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
14.1
Typical primary: 20.7

“Typical” = the median primary school in England. What this means

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Location

Filleigh Community Primary School at a glance

Located in Barnstaple, Devon, Filleigh Community Primary School is a primary school, classified by the DfE as a foundation school. The school educates roughly 66 pupils aged 3 to 11. In the most recent Key Stage 2 SATs, 20% of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths combined — well below the national average of 61%. That is down 37.0 percentage points in the proportion reaching the expected standard on the previous year, though small year groups can make these figures swing sharply from year to year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it in the lower half of primary schools nationally.

Pupils achieved an average scaled score of 97 in reading and 95 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). Filleigh Community Primary School was not oversubscribed for September 2026: all 10 families who put it first were offered a place. Overall pupil absence was 5.4%. There are about 14.1 pupils per teacher. Filleigh Community Primary School does not currently have a recent graded Ofsted judgement on record (often the case for newer or recently converted schools), so it is worth asking when its next inspection is expected. This overview is generated automatically from the latest published DfE performance tables and Ofsted data; figures are rounded, and you can check the originals via the official links above.

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