School admissions in Yelverton
How heavily each school was applied to for September 2026 entry, from the applications and offers every admissions authority reports to the DfE. 2 of these schools also have a published admissions cutoff distance. Sorted by first preferences per place. We don't invent rankings: the order is arithmetic on a published figure, not a view about which school is better.
Yelverton in figures
For Reception places in September 2026, families named the 5 schools in Yelverton first 89 times for 87 places: 1.02 first choices per place, against 1.00 across the Devon authority's 299 schools. One of the 5 had more first choices than places. For 2026 entry, one school here gave its last places on distance: Horrabridge Primary & Nursery School, to 3.81 miles.
Totals for the schools listed on this page. Applications and offers on national offer day, DfE; last-offer distances as the council published them.
Reception places, September 2026
5 schools. 1 received more first preferences than they had places.
| School | First preferences per place | Places | Cutoff distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Horrabridge Primary & Nursery School | 1.10 | 30 | 6127.1 m (≈3.81 mi) |
| Bere Alston Primary Academy | 1.00 | 11 | not published |
| Meavy Church of England Primary School | 1.00 | 17 | not published |
| Princetown Community Primary School | 1.00 | 11 | not published |
| St Andrew's Church of England Academy | 0.94 | 18 | not published |
First preferences per place is the number of families naming the school first, divided by its published admission number. Above 1.00 means more first choices than places. It is not a ranking and not a measure of quality: a popular school can be easy to get into and a quiet one hard, because places are allocated by each school's own criteria, siblings and faith and banding first, with distance often the last tie-breaker. Applications and offers on national offer day, DfE.