St George's CofE Infant and Nursery School

Academy converter·Infant school Bideford, Devon·EX39 1HT

School type

Infant school

Ages 3–7

Key Stage 2 performance

St George's CofE Infant and Nursery School is an infant school for pupils aged 3–7. 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%

33 first choices, 37 places

First choices per place

0.89

fewer first choices than places

Applications naming the school

any preference, for 37 places

First preferences per place, last five years▼ 0.08

00.511.5

1 per place

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

Every child who put St George's CofE Infant 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).

Ofsted judgements

New framework · Last inspection: 25/11/2025 · Read full report ↗

Achievement

Expected standard

Leadership and governance

Expected standard

Curriculum and teaching

Expected standard

Attendance and behaviour

Expected standard

Personal development and wellbeing

Expected standard

Inclusion

Strong standard

Safeguarding standards

Met

Early years

Expected standard

School profile

Age range: 3–7
Pupils on roll: 100
Gender: Mixed
Religious character: Church of England

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6

17.8%

Typical primary: 21.5%

% EAL

2.0%

Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support

16.0%

Typical primary: 14.3%

% with an EHC plan

11.0%

Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence

6.6%

Typical primary: 5.3%

Persistently absent

12.2%

Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher

16.5

Typical primary: 20.7

Spend per pupil

£11,079

Typical primary: £6,960

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

Nearby primary schools

St Margaret's Church of England Junior School Bideford · 0.1 mi 29.9 Appledore School Bideford · 0.9 mi 67.7 St Mary's CofE Primary School Bideford · 1.3 mi 39.4 West Croft School Bideford · 2.1 mi 24.7 East-the-Water Community Primary School Bideford · 2.2 mi 50.7 Instow Community Primary and Pre-School Bideford · 2.3 mi 53.8 St Helen's Church of England School Bideford · 2.3 mi 37.1 Fremington Primary School Barnstaple · 4.3 mi 29.9

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

School overview

St George's CofE Infant and Nursery School is a primary school serving Bideford, Devon, classified by the DfE as a converter academy with a Church of England religious character. It has 100 pupils aged 3 to 7 on roll.

St George's CofE Infant and Nursery School was not oversubscribed for September 2026: all 33 families who put it first were offered a place. Overall pupil absence was 6.6%. There are about 16.5 pupils per teacher. St George's CofE Infant 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.