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St Gabriel's CofE Primary School

Primary Ages 2-11 175 pupils Exeter
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St Gabriel's CofE Primary School is an academy converter in Exeter for pupils aged 2 to 11. It has a Church of England religious character. It has 175 pupils on roll. In 2025, 75% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths. About 59% of its places were empty in 2024/25, far more than at most primary schools, so a place should be easier to come by. It suspends pupils far more often than most primary schools: 6.2 in every 100 pupils were suspended at least once in 2024/25, against 1.1 nationally.

KS2 results: 2025.

Type Primary / Academy converter
Age Range 2-11
Religion Church of England
Address Landhayes Road
Redhills
Exeter
Devon
EX4 2BY
Phone 01392255555
Reference Number 142802

General Makeup

Number of pupils 175
Boy/Girl ratio Boys: 44.57%
Girls: 55.43%
Percentage of students eligible for free school meals 49.7%
Percentage of students where English is not their first language 13.7%

Class Sizes

Average size of one teacher classes 25
Average size of Key Stage 1 classes taught by one teacher 25.3
Average size of Key Stage 2 classes taught by one teacher 24.3

Year Groups

Year Boys Girls Total
1 8 6 14
2 6 17 23
3 10 7 17
4 10 13 23
5 12 13 25
6 10 15 25

Ethnicities

Ethnicity Percentage
White, British 64.6%
White, Other 9.1%
Unclassified 8%
African 5.7%
White & Black (Caribbean) 2.9%
Indian 2.9%
White & Black (African) 2.3%
Chinese 0.6%
Mixed, Other 0.6%

Overall Ofsted Rating
Last Report Date 10 Dec 2024 – no overall grade published for this inspection
Date Report
10 Dec 2024 School inspection
13 Oct 2020 Monitoring visit
22 Jan 2019 Short inspection
04 Jun 2016 Academy conversion letter
12 Dec 2012 Full inspection:
Previously as Redhills Community Primary School
04 Oct 2011 Curriculum and development visit
17 Nov 2009 Full inspection:
24 Jun 2009 Monitoring visit
05 Nov 2008 Full inspection:
11 Oct 2005 Full inspection:
25 Sep 2000 Full inspection

How many students meet the standards

Reading, Writing & Maths School Score Percentile (local) Percentile (nationwide)
Pupils meeting the expected standard 75%
Pupils meeting a higher standard 13%

Average Scaled Score

Results are converted into scaled scores to allow accurate comparisons of performance over time even if the difficulty of the test varies over time. Scaled scores range from 80 to 120.

Subject School Percentile (local) Percentile (nationwide)
Reading 106
Maths 105

Progress Scores

A progress score is a way to measure how well a student progressed in comparison to other students of a similar starting ability. A score of zero means would mean that a student made the same progress as others that had a similar starting a ability. A positive score would mean that the student made more progress than other students of similar starting ability. The scores below are for the whole school so is the average progress score across all students.

Metric School Score Percentile (local) Percentile (nationwide)
Reading 3.8
Writing 3.5
Maths 3.5

How many students meet the standards

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Average Scaled Score

Results are converted into scaled scores to allow accurate comparisons of performance over time even if the difficulty of the test varies over time. Scaled scores range from 80 to 120.

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Progress Scores

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Reception admissions, 2026 entry

Number of Applications Number of Offers
First Preference
Second Preference 14 1
Third Preference 3 0
From another Local Authority 0 0

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Places and pupil numbers

In 2024–25 St Gabriel's CofE Primary School had 159 pupils for 385 places. 226 places (58.7%) were unfilled.

Pupils and places

Reception intake in the “Exeter - West of Exe Primary” planning area

Devon counted 291 Reception pupils in this area in 2024–25 and forecasts 266 in 2029–30, down 9%.

20172018201920212022202320242025
Places 385385385385385385385385
Pupils 327284270219180160175159
Unfilled 15.1%26.2%29.9%43.1%53.2%58.4%54.5%58.7%

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 St Gabriel's CofE Primary School attended 92.8% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 21.2% of pupils were persistently absent, missing at least one session in ten (nationally 13.0%).

Sessions missed

Pupils persistently absent

20172018201920212022202320242025
Authorised absence 3.0%3.2%3.2%4.6%5.7%5.2%4.9%5.4%
Unauthorised absence 1.8%1.6%1.1%0.9%1.5%1.7%1.5%1.8%
Severely absent pupils 1.3%0.4%0.0%1.5%1.1%1.3%1.8%1.3%

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, 6.2% of pupils at St Gabriel's CofE Primary School were suspended at least once (nationally 1.1%). One pupil was permanently excluded.

Pupils suspended at least once

201720182019202020212022202320242025
Suspensions per 100 pupils 10.912.96.910.310.110.018.820.216.4
Permanent exclusions 121001121

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 St Gabriel's CofE Primary School had 17.9 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 12.8% were no longer at the school a year later (nationally 15.7%).

Pupils per teacher

Teachers who left the school within a year

2017201820192020202120222023202420252026
Pupils per adult 5.88.78.97.910.09.010.310.49.37.7
Teachers who left state teaching 5.0%34.0%9.8%26.3%12.5%37.5%14.3%20.5%0.0%–
Teachers who took any sick leave 71.4%62.5%45.5%–45.5%72.7%44.4%80.0%66.7%–
Sick days per teacher 2.51.61.5–3.54.01.83.11.2–

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, 17.1% of pupils at St Gabriel's CofE Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 5.7% had an education, health and care (EHC) plan (nationally 4.1%).

Pupils by main type of need

SEN support EHC plan
No specialist assessment of need 13 0
Speech, language and communication needs 11 0
Autistic spectrum disorder 0 8
Social, emotional and mental health 3 1
Physical disability 2 0
Other difficulty or disability 1 0
Severe learning difficulty 0 1

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 St Gabriel's CofE Primary School received £7,186 and spent £7,571 for each of its 195 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £115,000 (£590 per pupil).

Across all 20 schools of The Academies for Character and Excellence, income was £6,628 and spending £6,807 per pupil.

Income per pupil

Spending per pupil

2019202020212022202320242025
Revenue reserve -£56,000£13,000£91,000£140,000£120,000£114,000£115,000
per pupil -£204£60£418£826£728£677£590
In-year balance £13,000£259,000£13,000£159,000-£25,000£44,000-£75,000
per pupil £49£1,155£62£935-£152£262-£385

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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Stoke Hill Junior School
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1.99 miles
St Michael's Church of England Primary Academy
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2.02 miles
Wynstream Primary School Academy
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2.1 miles
Chestnut Nursery School - Exeter Nursery Schools Federation
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2.25 miles
Whipton Barton Infants and Nursery School
Whipton Barton Infant and Nursery School, Hiil Lane, Whipton, Exeter, Devon, EX1 3JP
2.58 miles
Name Distance
Belong School Devon
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0.52 miles
Barley Lane School
Barley Lane, St Thomas, Exeter, Devon, EX4 1TA
0.68 miles
Exeter and North Devon Colleges Group
Hele Road, Exeter, Devon, EX4 4JS
0.69 miles
Exeter Mathematics School
ROUGEMONT HOUSE, CASTLE ROAD, EXETER, DEVON, EX4 3PU
0.94 miles
West Exe School
Hatherleigh Road, Exeter, EX2 9JU
1.11 miles
The Maynard School
Denmark Road, Exeter, EX1 1SJ
1.28 miles
Thomas Hall School
Cowley Bridge Road, Exeter, Devon, EX4 5AD
1.47 miles
Magdalen Court School
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1.5 miles
Atkinson Secure Children's Home
Care of: Devon County Council, Exeter, EX2 4QD
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Exeter School
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Isca Academy
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2 miles
The Outdoors School
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2.41 miles
Southbrook School
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2.53 miles
Vranch House School
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2.55 miles
Matford Brook Academy
March Close, Matford, Exeter, Devon, EX2 0BZ
2.57 miles
St James School
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2.67 miles
St Peter's Church of England Aided School
Quarry Lane, Heavitree, Exeter, Devon, EX2 5AP
2.94 miles
St Luke's Church of England School
Harts Lane, Exeter, Devon, EX1 3RD
3.16 miles
Ellen Tinkham School
Hollow Lane, Pinhoe, Exeter, Devon, EX1 3RW
3.47 miles

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How many pupils does St Gabriel's CofE Primary School have?

St Gabriel's CofE Primary School has 175 pupils on roll.

What age range does St Gabriel's CofE Primary School cover?

St Gabriel's CofE Primary School for pupils aged 2 to 11.

What are St Gabriel's CofE Primary School's SATs (KS2) results?

In 2025, 75% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is St Gabriel's CofE Primary School?

St Gabriel's CofE Primary School is at Landhayes Road, Redhills, Exeter, Devon, EX4 2BY.

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