Mary Dean's CofE Primary School and Nursery

Academy converter·Primary school Plymouth·PL5 4LS
Composite score
17.6
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#14,565
National rank
#1583
In South West
#64
In Plymouth
Top 98%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
27%
% achieving higher RWM
0%
Reading average scaled score
101.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
98.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Ofsted judgements

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

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
100%
33 first choices, 34 places
First choices per place
0.97
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
38
any preference, for 34 places
Applications from another council area
3%
First preferences per place, last five years▼ 0.03
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1 per place
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Red dashed line = one first choice per place. How to read this

Every child who put Mary Dean's CofE Primary School and Nursery 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
302
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
Church of England

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
19.3%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
3.0%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
19.5%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
1.3%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
6.2%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
17.8%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
21.7
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£6,242
Typical primary: £6,960

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

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About Mary Dean's CofE Primary School and Nursery

Mary Dean's CofE Primary School and Nursery is a primary school in Plymouth, classified by the DfE as a converter academy with a Church of England religious character. Around 302 pupils aged 3 to 11 attend the school. In the most recent Key Stage 2 SATs, 27% of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths combined — well below the national average of 61%. That is down 27.0 percentage points in the proportion reaching the expected standard on the previous 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 98 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). Mary Dean's CofE Primary School and Nursery was not oversubscribed for September 2026: all 33 families who put it first were offered a place. Overall pupil absence was 6.2%. There are about 21.7 pupils per teacher. Mary Dean's CofE Primary School and Nursery 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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