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Starcross Primary School
Primary · Mixed · Ages 2–11 · Academy
New Road, Exeter, Devon EX6 8QD · starcross-primary.co.uk · 01626 890454
Overview
- Ofsted
- Some aspects not as strong
- Ungraded inspection · Jan 2025
- Key stage 2, 2024/25
- 74%
- 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
- 206
- 88% of 234 places
- Local authority
- Devon
- Nursery class
- Yes
- Free school meals
- 23.8%
- First language not English
- 1.5%
- School census 2025/26
- Trust
- Ivy Education Trust
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, 18 families put the school first and 20 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 | 20 | 18 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 16 | 16 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 24 | 24 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 23 | 23 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 26 | 26 | 1 | 100% |
Results
In 2024/25, 74% of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of key stage 2, and 13% 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 | |||
| ▲74% | 62% | ||
| ▲13% | 8% | ||
| Average scaled score | |||
| ●106 | 106 | ||
| ●106 | 105 | ||
| ●106 | 105 | ||
Some years are for the predecessor school (URN 113219)
Ofsted
At an ungraded inspection on 29 January 2025, Ofsted’s outcome for Starcross Primary School was: Some aspects not as strong.
- Outcome
- Some aspects not as strong
- Inspected
- 28 Jan 2025
- Ungraded inspection
Safeguarding effectiveInspection reports
Previously: Good, graded inspection, Feb 2013
Earlier inspections
Including inspections of the predecessor school (URN 113219), which Ofsted links to this one.
Before September 2019
Feb 2013Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Leadership and management Good Inspection of the predecessor school (URN 113219)
Mar 2011Requires improvement
Outcomes for pupils Requires improvement Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Requires improvement Leadership and management Good Early years Good Inspection of the predecessor school (URN 113219)
What parents said
78% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (68 replies, to 1 September 2025).
- Recommend
- 78%
- Replies
- 68
- 32% · 1 Sept 2025
based on the 90% who raised concerns
based on the 47% who had a child bullied
based on 24 parents (35%) with SEND