Eden Park Primary & Nursery School

Eden Park Primary & Nursery School is performing well overall, marked as 'Good' across all areas including quality of education, behaviour, personal development, leadership, and early years provision. The school's community-focused environment is a notable strength, fostering values such as teamwork and respect while ensuring that all pupils, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities, thrive. The school benefits from strong leadership and a well-established curriculum that integrates learning with the local community, contributing positively to pupils' experiences and outcomes.

Strengths

• Pupils thrive in a community-focused and friendly environment.
• The school promotes effective values of independence, teamwork, and creativity.
• Staff foster positive relationships and promote high expectations.
• Reading is prioritized with effective phonics and literacy programs.
• Leaders are ambitious and have strong staff development practices.
• Parents appreciate the school’s commitment to personal development.

Areas for Improvement

• Some curriculum elements and assessment methods are still underdeveloped.
• New systems for tracking behaviour and attendance need further embedding.

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 Eden Park Primary & Nursery School attended 94.1% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 16.5% 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, 2.1% of pupils at Eden Park Primary & Nursery School were suspended at least once (nationally 1.1%). One pupil was 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 Eden Park Primary & Nursery School had 21.5 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 19.5% 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, 25.1% of pupils at Eden Park Primary & Nursery School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 2.6% 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.

In 2024–25 Eden Park Primary & Nursery School received £7,443 and spent £7,078 for each of its 343 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £59,000 (£173 per pupil).

Across all 8 schools of Connect Academy Trust, income was £6,766 and spending £6,801 per pupil.

Income per pupil

Spending per pupil

Source: Department for Education, Financial Benchmarking and Insights Tool. Each year is the one the financial year ends in (2024 is 2023–24). Academy figures include a share of the trust's central services, shared out by pupil numbers, and are rounded to the nearest £1,000. Premises costs were defined differently from 2024, so compare them across that gap with care.

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All schools in Brixham · Torbay local authority: places and applications

Eden Park Primary & Nursery School is part of Connect Academy Trust, which runs 9 schools. The nearest others:

• Preston Primary School Torquay
• Cockington Primary School Torquay
• Haytor View Community Primary School Newton Abbot
• Leigham Primary School Plymouth
• Thornbury Primary School Plymouth
• Eggbuckland Vale Primary School Plymouth
• Widey Court Primary School Plymouth
• Manadon Vale Primary School Plymouth

What is Eden Park Primary & Nursery School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Eden Park Primary & Nursery School is Good, from an inspection in July 2023.

When was Eden Park Primary & Nursery School last inspected by Ofsted?

Eden Park Primary & Nursery School was last inspected in July 2023.

How many pupils does Eden Park Primary & Nursery School have?

Eden Park Primary & Nursery School has 342 pupils on roll.

What age range does Eden Park Primary & Nursery School cover?

Eden Park Primary & Nursery School for pupils aged 2 to 11.

What are Eden Park Primary & Nursery School's SATs (KS2) results?

In 2025, 70% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Eden Park Primary & Nursery School?

Eden Park Primary & Nursery School is at Eden Park, Brixham, Devon, TQ5 9NH.