Bradworthy Primary Academy
Academy converter · Holsworthy · EX22 7RT
Ages 5–11 · 185 pupils · Devon
Ofsted
Requires improvement
KS2 expected (RWM)
80%
Overall absence
3.9%
Admissions demand
1.00 · Balanced demand
Ofsted
Latest published inspection outcomes — not a ranking.
Headline
Requires improvement
Inspection date
2023-10-17
- Overall effectiveness
- Requires improvement
- Quality of education
- Requires improvement
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Good
- Personal development
- Requires improvement
- Leadership and management
- Requires improvement
- Safeguarding effective
- Yes
Performance
Official school-level results. Figures are not rankings — suppressed values are omitted.
Key stage 2 (2023/24)
- Avg scaled score — reading
- 110.0
- Avg scaled score — maths
- 106.0
- Avg scaled score — GPS
- 109.0
Absence
Academic year 2023/24. Persistent absence means 10%+ of sessions missed. Lower figures are better.
- Authorised absence
- 3.9%
- Severe absence (50%+)
- 0.0%
- Enrolments in measure
- 196
Absence trend
2021/22
2022/23
2023/24
- Overall
- Persistent (10%+)
Admissions demand
Coordinated admissions for primary entry (2024/25 cycle, national offer day). Demand ratio compares families who listed this school 1st with total offers made — not a catchment or distance guarantee.
Demand ratio
1.00 · Balanced demand
1st preferences
24
Places offered
24
1st-preference offers
24
- Total preferences (any rank)
- 32
- Preferred offers (top 3)
- 24
- Applications from outside LA
- 2
- Offers to outside-LA applicants
- 1
Source: DfE primary and secondary school applications and offers. Figures reflect offers on national offer day; late applications, appeals and waiting lists are not included.
Size & intake
From the GIAS school census (15 Jan 2026).
185 pupils · 210 places
- Pupils on roll
- 185
- Boys / girls
- 97 / 88
- School capacity
- 210
- Capacity fill
- 185 / 210 (88%)
- Free school meals
- 22.7%
- FSM pupils
- 42
- Gender
- Mixed
- School type
- Academy converter
Age range
Ages 5–11
Provision
Official GIAS characteristics
1 / 6
- Nursery
- Sixth form
- Boarding
- Special school
- Independent
- Academy
School characteristics
- Special classes
- No Special Classes
- Governance
- Academy trust: BRADWORTHY PRIMARY ACADEMY
- Academy trust
- BRADWORTHY PRIMARY ACADEMY
- Headteacher
- Mr Nicholas Lapham
Location
- Address
- Bradworthy
- Postcode
- EX22 7RT
- Town
- Holsworthy
- County
- Devon
- Local authority
- Devon
- District
- Torridge
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock
- Urban/rural
- Smaller rural: Further from a major town or city
Local context
How this school sits among open establishments in its area, using official GIAS records. These are counts, not rankings.
Mixed academy converter (primary), Ages 5–11, in Holsworthy, Devon, 185 pupils on roll. Notable characteristics: academy. Free school meals: 22.7%.
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Contact
- Headteacher
- Mr Nicholas Lapham
- Telephone
- 01409241365