Loddiswell Primary School

Loddiswell Primary School continues to demonstrate strong performance, maintaining its good rating from previous inspections. The school provides a nurturing environment where pupils feel safe, support one another, and actively contribute to their community through various initiatives. Engagement with the curriculum is high, as leaders have carefully structured the content to foster meaningful learning experiences, especially in foundational skills like reading and mathematics.

Strengths

• Pupils display kindness and responsibility
• Leaders have planned a well-structured curriculum
• Effective support for pupils with special educational needs
• Strong relationships between staff and students
• A wide range of extracurricular opportunities
• Positive contributions to local and wider community
• Effective safeguarding measures in place

Areas for Improvement

• Curriculum sequencing is not well aligned for early years transition

Admissions: local authority offers data from the Department for Education. A school is oversubscribed when at least 5% of the families who put it first were not offered a place, and undersubscribed when everyone who put it first got in but 10% or more of its places were unfilled in the Department's school capacity survey (the latest survey is used for entry years it does not cover). Places: Department for Education, School capacity, from local authorities' annual survey as at 1 May. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024–25); the survey was not run in 2020. Places include sixth form places. Forecasts are the local authority's own for the school's planning area, an area it uses to plan places that is not the school's catchment area. The forecast starts from a head count in 2025; the dashed line is the Department's estimate of places in that area, including those the authority has firm plans for. Planned places are cumulative, and only those with firm plans are counted.

In 2024–25 pupils at Loddiswell Primary School attended 95.7% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 8.0% of pupils were persistently absent, missing at least one session in ten (nationally 13.0%).

Sessions missed

Pupils persistently absent

Source: Department for Education, Pupil absence in schools in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). Persistent absence means missing 10% or more of sessions; severe absence means 50% or more. No figures were published for 2019/20.

In 2024–25, 0.9% of pupils at Loddiswell Primary School were suspended at least once (nationally 1.1%). No pupils were permanently excluded.

Pupils suspended at least once

Source: Department for Education, Suspensions and permanent exclusions in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). A pupil can be suspended more than once, so suspensions per 100 pupils can be higher than the share of pupils suspended. Very small numbers are hidden by the DfE. Exclusion figures dropped in 2020 and 2021 because of school closures.

In 2025–26 Loddiswell Primary School had 26.6 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 35.4% were no longer at the school a year later (nationally 15.7%).

Pupils per teacher

Teachers who left the school within a year

Source: Department for Education, School workforce in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). Pupils per teacher counts full-time-equivalent pupils and teachers. Turnover is the share of a year's teachers (full-time equivalent) who were not at the school the following year, whether they moved to another school or left state-funded teaching. Turnover and sickness figures run one year behind the ratios. Sick leave is the share of teachers who took at least one day in the year, so it swings widely at small schools, where a few teachers can make it 0% or 100%. The national figures are for all state schools of the same type.

In 2025–26, 9.3% of pupils at Loddiswell Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 6.8% had an education, health and care (EHC) plan (nationally 4.1%).

Pupils by main type of need

Source: Department for Education, Special educational needs in England (the 2025–26 school census). SEN support is extra help in school without an EHC plan. National figures are for all state-funded primary schools. Counts are as published, with small numbers not hidden.

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What is Loddiswell Primary School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Loddiswell Primary School is Good, from an inspection in May 2023.

When was Loddiswell Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

Loddiswell Primary School was last inspected in May 2023.

How many pupils does Loddiswell Primary School have?

Loddiswell Primary School has 118 pupils on roll.

What age range does Loddiswell Primary School cover?

Loddiswell Primary School for pupils aged 4 to 11.

What are Loddiswell Primary School's SATs (KS2) results?

In 2025, 67% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Loddiswell Primary School?

Loddiswell Primary School is at Beechwood Park, Loddiswell, Kingsbridge, Devon, TQ7 4BY.