Haytor View Community Primary School

Academy converter·Primary school Newton Abbot, Devon·TQ12 4BD
Composite score
16.9
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National rank
#1588
In South West
#259
In Devon
Top 99%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
26%
% achieving higher RWM
0%
Reading average scaled score
102.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
97.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Ofsted judgements

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Overall effectiveness
Requires improvement
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%
17 first choices, 18 places
First choices per place
0.94
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
19
any preference, for 18 places

Every child who put Haytor View 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
224
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
41.2%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
0.4%
Typical primary: 9.6%

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

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About Haytor View Community Primary School

Haytor View Community Primary School is a primary school in Newton Abbot, Devon, classified by the DfE as a converter academy. Around 224 pupils aged 3 to 11 attend the school. The school holds a 'Requires improvement' judgement from Ofsted. In the most recent Key Stage 2 SATs, 26% of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths combined — well below the national average of 61%. That is down 41.0 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 102 in reading and 97 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). Haytor View Community Primary School was not oversubscribed for September 2026: all 17 families who put it first were offered a place. 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. If you are considering Haytor View Community Primary School, it may be worth asking how leaders have responded to Ofsted's findings and what has changed since the inspection. 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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