Mary Tavy and Brentor Community Primary School
Community school · Tavistock · PL19 9PR
Ages 4–11 · 103 pupils · Devon
Ofsted
Outstanding
KS2 expected (RWM)
75%
Overall absence
3.2%
Admissions demand
0.91 · Balanced demand
Ofsted
Latest published inspection outcomes — not a ranking.
Headline
Outstanding
Inspection date
2023-11-29
- Overall effectiveness
- Outstanding
- Quality of education
- Outstanding
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Outstanding
- Personal development
- Outstanding
- Leadership and management
- Outstanding
- 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
- 111.0
- Avg scaled score — maths
- 103.0
- Avg scaled score — GPS
- 107.0
Absence
Academic year 2023/24. Persistent absence means 10%+ of sessions missed. Lower figures are better.
- Authorised absence
- 3.2%
- Severe absence (50%+)
- 0.0%
- Enrolments in measure
- 62
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
0.91 · Balanced demand
1st preferences
10
Places offered
11
1st-preference offers
10
- Total preferences (any rank)
- 13
- Preferred offers (top 3)
- 11
- Applications from outside LA
- 0
- Offers to outside-LA applicants
- 0
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).
103 pupils · 105 places
- Pupils on roll
- 103
- Boys / girls
- 50 / 53
- School capacity
- 105
- Capacity fill
- 103 / 105 (98%)
- Free school meals
- 6.8%
- FSM pupils
- 7
- Gender
- Mixed
- School type
- Community school
Age range
Ages 4–11
Provision
Official GIAS characteristics
0 / 6
- Nursery
- Sixth form
- Boarding
- Special school
- Independent
- Academy
School characteristics
- Special classes
- No Special Classes
- Governance
- Community school
- Headteacher
- Mrs Clare Davies
Location
- Address
- Mary Tavy
- Postcode
- PL19 9PR
- Town
- Tavistock
- County
- Devon
- Local authority
- Devon
- District
- West Devon
- 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 community school (primary), Ages 4–11, in Tavistock, Devon, 103 pupils on roll. Free school meals: 6.8%.
Nearby primary schools
Open schools within about 3 miles, prioritising the same phase where possible. Distances are approximate from GIAS coordinates.
Other independent school
Tavistock · PL19 0HZ · Devon
Ages 4–18
- Att825.1
- EM5+0%
2.7 miles away
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Contact
- Headteacher
- Mrs Clare Davies
- Telephone
- 01822810384