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Preston Primary School
Primary · Mixed · Ages 4–11 · Sponsored academy
Old Paignton Road, Livermead, Torquay TQ2 6UY · preston.torbay.sch.uk · 01803 607075
Overview
- Ofsted
- Remains Good
- Ungraded inspection · Jul 2023
- Key stage 2, 2024/25
- 60%
- reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths. Torbay 62%, England 62%
- Demand for places
- 1.6
- first choices for each place · Reception, September 2026
- Pupils
- 325
- 98% of 331 places
- Local authority
- Torbay
- Nursery class
- No
- Free school meals
- 10.8%
- First language not English
- 1.8%
- School census 2025/26
The official school record (Department for Education)
Admissions
For Reception in September 2026, 72 families put the school first and 45 places were offered; 63% 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 | 45 | 72 | 1.6▲ | 63% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 44 | 54 | 1.2▲ | 81% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 45 | 47 | 1▲ | 94% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 43 | 56 | 1.3▲ | 77% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 45 | 53 | 1.2▲ | 81% |
Results
In 2024/25, 60% of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of key stage 2, and 11% the higher standard. Across Torbay it was 62%, and across England 62%.
Expected standard reading, writing and maths
| 2024/25 | Trend | School | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reading, writing and maths | |||
| ●60% | 62% | ||
| ▲11% | 8% | ||
| Average scaled score | |||
| ●106 | 106 | ||
| ●105 | 105 | ||
| ●103 | 105 | ||
Ofsted
At an ungraded inspection on 19 July 2023, Ofsted’s outcome for Preston Primary School was: School remains Good.
- Outcome
- Remains Good
- Inspected
- 18 Jul 2023
- Ungraded inspection
Safeguarding effectiveInspection reports
Previously: Good, graded inspection, Sept 2017
Earlier inspections
Including inspections of the predecessor school (URN 113236), which Ofsted links to this one.
Before September 2019
Sept 2017Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Personal development, behaviour and welfare Good Leadership and management Good Early years Outstanding Safeguarding Effective Feb 2013Requires improvement
Outcomes for pupils Requires improvement Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Requires improvement Leadership and management Requires improvement Inspection of the predecessor school (URN 113236)
What parents said
90% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (113 replies, to 1 April 2024).
- Recommend
- 90%
- Replies
- 113
- 35% · 1 Apr 2024
based on the 77% who raised concerns
based on the 21% who had a child bullied
based on 24 parents (21%) with SEND