Whipton Barton Infants and Nursery School

Academy converter·Infant school Exeter, Devon·EX1 3JP

School type

Infant school

Ages 2–7

Key Stage 2 performance

Whipton Barton Infants and Nursery School is an infant school for pupils aged 2–7. Pupils move on to a separate junior or middle school before Year 6, so the school does not enter pupils for the Key Stage 2 SATs and has no KS2 results to publish.

This applies to every infant school in England — it does not mean data is missing. Ofsted judgements and school information are shown below.

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first

100%

32 first choices, 36 places

First choices per place

0.89

fewer first choices than places

Applications naming the school

any preference, for 36 places

First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.09

00.511.5

1 per place

0.9120220.8220230.8320240.8020250.892026

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

Every child who put Whipton Barton Infants and Nursery 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: 2–7
Pupils on roll: 222
Gender: Mixed
Religious character: None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6

40.9%

Typical primary: 21.5%

% EAL

19.4%

Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support

23.9%

Typical primary: 14.3%

% with an EHC plan

1.8%

Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence

8.4%

Typical primary: 5.3%

Persistently absent

27.9%

Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher

20.7

Typical primary: 20.7

Spend per pupil

£12,500

Typical primary: £6,960

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

Nearby primary schools

Whipton Barton Junior School Exeter · 0.0 mi 65.0 Willowbrook School Exeter · 0.5 mi 28.6 St Nicholas Catholic Primary School Exeter · 0.6 mi 20.8 St Michael's Church of England Primary Academy Exeter · 0.8 mi 57.6 Ladysmith Junior School Exeter · 0.9 mi 41.3 Pinhoe Church of England Primary School & Nursery Exeter · 1.0 mi 14.3 Woodwater Academy Exeter · 1.1 mi 55.1 Stoke Hill Junior School Exeter · 1.1 mi 57.7

Location

Official sources

Latest Ofsted report reports.ofsted.gov.uk DfE Compare School Performance compare-school-performance.service.gov.uk GIAS school details get-information-schools.service.gov.uk

About Whipton Barton Infants and Nursery School

Whipton Barton Infants and Nursery School is a primary school in Exeter, Devon, classified by the DfE as a converter academy. Around 222 pupils aged 2 to 7 attend the school.

Whipton Barton Infants and Nursery School was not oversubscribed for September 2026: all 32 families who put it first were offered a place. Overall pupil absence was 8.4%. There are about 20.7 pupils per teacher. The school serves a community with above-average levels of disadvantage: about 41% of pupils have been eligible for free school meals in the last six years, compared with roughly 24% nationally — useful context when reading the results above. Whipton Barton Infants and Nursery 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.