Fremington Primary School

Academy converter·Primary school Barnstaple, Devon·EX31 3DD
Composite score
29.9
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National rank
#1423
In South West
#225
In Devon
Top 90%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
46%
% achieving higher RWM
0%
Reading average scaled score
101.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
100.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Ofsted judgements

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

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
100%
29 first choices, 29 places
First choices per place
1.00
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
41
any preference, for 29 places
Applications from another council area
2%
First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.04
00.511.5
1 per place
1.0020221.0020230.9820240.9620251.002026

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

Every child who put Fremington 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
346
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None
Admissions
Non-Selective

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
18.8%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
0.9%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
16.5%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
2.9%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
6.4%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
18.0%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
22.5
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£4,101
Typical primary: £6,960

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

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About Fremington Primary School

Fremington Primary School is a primary school in Barnstaple, Devon, classified by the DfE as a converter academy. Around 346 pupils aged 3 to 11 attend the school. 46% of its pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of Key Stage 2, below the national average (national figure: 61%). The proportion reaching the expected standard has risen by 6.0 percentage points year on 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 101 in reading and 100 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). Getting a place is straightforward: for the September 2026 intake every family who made Fremington Primary School their first choice was offered one of its 29 Reception places. Overall pupil absence was 6.4%. There are about 22.5 pupils per teacher. Fremington 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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