South Brent Primary School

South Brent Primary School is performing well, holding a 'Good' overall effectiveness rating in its first routine inspection since the COVID-19 pandemic. The school is noted for its supportive environment where pupils, parents, and staff feel proud to be part of the community. The curriculum is ambitious and allows for progressive skill building from Reception to Year 6. Strong relationships between staff and students contribute to a calm learning atmosphere, and pupils demonstrate resilience and independence in their learning journey.

Strengths

• Strong subject knowledge among staff.
• Ambitious and rich curriculum promoting respect for diversity.
• Effective support for emotional management through 'The Den'.
• Pupils show a love of reading and achieve well.
• Coherent and well-sequenced curriculum in mathematics.
• Effective personal, social, health and economic education.

Areas for Improvement

• Inconsistencies in adapting the curriculum for pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND).
• Assessment is not effectively used in some wider curriculum subjects.

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 South Brent Primary School attended 95.1% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 9.6% 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, 0.6% of pupils at South Brent 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 South Brent Primary School had 19.2 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 12.3% 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, 25.2% of pupils at South Brent Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 3.1% 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 South Brent Primary School received £6,694 and spent £7,452 for each of its 176 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £112,000 (£636 per pupil).

Across all 35 schools of The Harbour Schools Partnership, income was £6,261 and spending £6,333 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 South Hams · Devon local authority: places and applications

South Brent Primary School is part of The Harbour Schools Partnership, which runs 36 schools. The nearest others:

• St David's CofE Primary School Exeter
• Woodwater Academy Exeter
• Willowbrook School Exeter
• St Martin's CofE Primary & Nursery School Exeter
• The Duchy School Bradninch Exeter
• Bickleigh on Exe Church of England Primary School Tiverton
• Sidbury Church of England Primary School Sidbury
• St Andrew's Primary School Cullompton
• Wilcombe Primary School Tiverton
• Bolham Community Primary School Tiverton

What is South Brent Primary School's Ofsted rating?

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

When was South Brent Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

South Brent Primary School was last inspected in May 2023.

How many pupils does South Brent Primary School have?

South Brent Primary School has 163 pupils on roll.

What age range does South Brent Primary School cover?

South Brent Primary School for pupils aged 0 to 11.

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

In 2025, 48% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is South Brent Primary School?

South Brent Primary School is at Totnes Road, South Brent, Devon, TQ10 9JN.