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Countess Wear Primary School

Primary · Exeter · EX2 7BS

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Requires improvement

Graded inspection under the pre-November 2025 system

This is an overall-effectiveness grade from the previous inspection framework. The school has not yet had a report-card inspection.

Quality of education: Requires improvementBehaviour & attitudes: Requires improvementPersonal development: Requires improvementLeadership & management: Requires improvementSafeguarding effective: Yes

Inspected 11 October 2022

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At a glance

171 pupils · 42% of 405 capacity

School type
Academy sponsor led
Age range
2–11
Gender
Mixed
Free school meals
45.2% of pupils
English as additional language
13.9% of pupils
SEN support
18.9% of pupils
EHC plan
9.4% of pupils
Nursery
Yes
Website
www.tcat.education
URN
150755

Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026

1.00 first-choice applications per place

13 places offered · 13 first-choice applications · roughly balanced

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)

29 pupils at the end of key stage 2 in 2024/2025

Reaching the expected standard in reading, writing & maths
31%
England 62%
Reaching the higher standard
7%
England 8%
Average scaled score (reading)
102
England 106
Average scaled score (maths)
98
England 105

Source: DfE performance tables 2024/2025. “Suppressed” means the DfE withholds figures for very small cohorts.

Attendance (2025/26 autumn term)

Sessions missed (overall absence)
4.4%
England 6.5%
Pupils missing 10%+ of sessions (persistent absence)
11.4%
England 18.1%

Autumn-term absence, DfE pupil absence data. Lower is better.

Staffing

Pupils per qualified teacher
14.8
England 18.5

Full-time-equivalent, 2025/26.

Teacher retention (2024/25)

63% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 17% moved to another state school · 20% left the state-funded sector

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.

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