Countess Wear Primary School
Primary · Exeter · EX2 7BS
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.
Inspected 11 October 2022
Read the Ofsted report ↗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 place13 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
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)
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.