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St Joseph's Catholic Primary School
Primary · Mixed · Ages 5–11 · Academy
Coombeshead Road, Highweek, Newton Abbot TQ12 1PT · st-josephs-primary.devon.sch.uk · 01626 352559
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Overview
- Ofsted
- Requires improvement
- 2019 framework · inspected Dec 2023
- Key stage 2, 2024/25
- 71%
- reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths. Devon 59%, England 62%
- Last distance offered
- No limit
- Reception, September 2026 entry · Devon Council
- Demand for places
- 0.9
- first choices for each place · Reception, September 2026
- Pupils
- 80
- 38% of 210 places
- Local authority
- Devon
- Free school meals
- 30%
- First language not English
- 13.8%
- School census 2025/26
- Trust
- Plymouth Cast
The official school record (Department for Education)
Admissions
For Reception in September 2026, everyone who applied was offered a place. Source: Devon Council’s document.
For Reception in September 2026, 14 families put the school first and 15 places were offered; 100% of those families were offered a place there. Admission depends on the school’s own rules.
First choices against places
| Reception | Places | First choices | Per place | % offered |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2026Sept 2026 | 15 | 14 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 8 | 8 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 17 | 16 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 9 | 9 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 11 | 10 | 0.9 | 100% |
Results
In 2024/25, 71% of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of key stage 2, and 14% the higher standard. Across Devon it was 59%, and across England 62%.
Expected standard reading, writing and maths
| 2024/25 | Trend | School | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reading, writing and maths | |||
| ▲71% | 62% | ||
| ▲14% | 8% | ||
| Average scaled score | |||
| ●107 | 106 | ||
| ▲110 | 105 | ||
| ▲113 | 105 | ||
Ofsted
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School was judged Requires improvement at its last graded inspection, on 6 December 2023, under Ofsted’s 2019 framework.
- Overall
- Requires improvement
- Inspected
- 6 Dec 2023
- Graded inspection
Safeguarding effectiveInspection reports
Graded areas
| Quality of education | Requires improvement |
|---|---|
| Behaviour and attitudes | Good |
| Personal development | Requires improvement |
| Leadership and management | Requires improvement |
| Early years | Requires improvement |
Previously: Requires improvement, graded inspection, Feb 2020
Other inspections
Including inspections of the predecessor school (URN 113467), which Ofsted links to this one.
September 2019 to November 2025
- Feb 2025Monitoring visitEffective action
- May 2021Monitoring visitEffective action
- Mar 2021Monitoring visitEffective action
Feb 2020Requires improvement
Quality of education Requires improvement Behaviour and attitudes Requires improvement Personal development Good Leadership and management Requires improvement Early years Requires improvement Safeguarding Effective
Before September 2019
Oct 2017Requires improvement
Outcomes for pupils Requires improvement Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Requires improvement Personal development, behaviour and welfare Good Leadership and management Requires improvement Early years Requires improvement Safeguarding Effective Nov 2012Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Leadership and management Good Inspection of the predecessor school (URN 113467)
What parents said
88% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (17 replies, to 2 September 2024).
- Recommend
- 88%
- Replies
- 17
- 2 Sept 2024
based on the 76% who raised concerns
based on the 12% who had a child bullied