Shute Community Primary School
Primary · Axminster · EX13 7QR
Earlier grade, confirmed by a later ungraded inspection
Ofsted's most recent (ungraded) visit confirmed the school remains Good. Ungraded inspections do not award a new grade.
Inspected 29 September 2021
Read the Ofsted report ↗At a glance
46 pupils · 51% of 90 capacity
- School type
- Community school
- Age range
- 4–11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Free school meals
- 10.9% of pupils
- English as additional language
- 2.6% of pupils
- SEN support
- 6.4% of pupils
- EHC plan
- 2.6% of pupils
- Website
- www.shute-primary.org.uk
- URN
- 113109
Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026
0.75 first-choice applications per place4 places offered · 3 first-choice applications · usually has places
First-choice applications per place, by entry year
Applications and offers on national offer day, DfE. A ratio above 1.00 means more families named this school first choice than there were places.
Key stage 2 results (2024/2025)
14 pupils at the end of key stage 2 in 2024/2025
Source: DfE performance tables 2024/2025. “Suppressed” means the DfE withholds figures for very small cohorts.
Attendance (2025/26 autumn term)
Autumn-term absence, DfE pupil absence data. Lower is better.
Staffing
Full-time-equivalent, 2025/26.
Teacher retention (2024/25)
100% of teachers stayed at the school the following year
School Workforce Census, DfE. The ratio counts full-time-equivalent qualified teachers; retention follows teachers in post one November to the next. Open Government Licence v3.0.
Inspection history since 2015
- 10 June 2025: Requires Improvement S5 Reinspection Visit 1
- 7 February 2023: Requires improvement
- 29 September 2021: School remains Good (Concerns) - S5 Next
- 27 September 2016: Yes - improving (good)
Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.