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St George's CofE Infant and Nursery School

PrimaryAges 3–7AcademyChurch of England

Northam, EX39 1HT · Devon local authority

Northam’s School Grade D better than 15% of towns in England

Getting in
33/33
first choices offered a place, 2026 (England: 93%)
How full
110 pupils
70% of its 157 places
Free school meals
22%
22 in 100 pupils eligible · outlined square = England’s schools (25)
The gist

What stands out about St George's CofE Infant and Nursery School

  • No letter for this school: the reason is below.
  • Room to spare: 110 pupils for 157 places
  • Ofsted report card, November 2025: achievement expected standard, safeguarding met (shown, not graded)
  • Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026 (33 of 33)
  • Homes in its postcode sector (EX39 1) sold for a median £320,000; Northam’s is £322,500
Getting in

How hard is it to get a place at St George's CofE Infant and Nursery School?

Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026.

33
families put it first for September 2026
37
places offered
100%
of first choices offered a place (England’s primaries: 93%)
First choices and places, by year of entry
20192020202120222023202420252026
Families who put it firstPlaces offered

In every year shown, every family who put it first was offered a place. The council runs the coordinated admissions; each school’s rules (siblings, distance, faith) decide who gets in. DfE doesn’t publish the furthest distance offered, so check the council’s admissions booklet for that. The Harbour Schools Partnership sets the admissions rules. Apply through Devon council’s coordinated admissions.

Demand for primary schools nearby, September 2026

Outline = places offered · green = families who put it first · striped = more first choices than places

1.40 per place
71% got their first choice
0.97 per place
100% got their first choice
0.96 per place
100% got their first choice
0.94 per place
100% got their first choice
0.91 per place
100% got their first choice
St George's CofE Infant and Nursery
0.89 per place
100% got their first choice

Who goes here

DfE school census, January 2025

100 pupils. SEN support is extra help in school for a special educational need; an EHC plan is the council’s legal plan for pupils who need more.

SEN support
16%England 15.3%
EHC plan
11%England 3.6%
English as an additional language
2%England 18.8%
Free school meals in the last 6 years
17.8%England 26.2%

Girls and boys

Girls 53%Boys 47%
Its letter

No letter for St George's CofE Infant and Nursery School

An infant school: pupils move on at 7, before the Key Stage 2 tests at 11, so there are no results to grade.

Letters go to England’s open mainstream state schools with published Key Stage 2 or GCSE results (grammar schools included), each against the schools of its own phase.

Ofsted

Ofsted inspections

Shown, not graded: Ofsted is never part of a letter or the School Grade.

Report card, inspection starting November 2025.

SafeguardingMet
AchievementExpected standard
Curriculum and teachingExpected standard
InclusionStrong standard
Attendance and behaviourExpected standard
Personal development and well-beingExpected standard
Leadership and governanceExpected standard
Early yearsExpected standard

The full reports on Ofsted ↗

Living nearby

Living near St George's CofE Infant and Nursery School

For families thinking of moving: what homes cost around the school, and the other schools close by.

Home prices in EX39 1, the school’s postcode sector

Northam property prices →
£320,000
median sale, 635 sales in 36 months · Northam £322,500

Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025

£150K£200K£250K£300K£350K£400K2010201520202025EX39 1Northam
EX39 1Northam

By type, the 36 months to August 2026

Detached
£420K
Semi-detached
£263K
Terraced
£265K
Flat
£168K
EX39 1Northam

Homes in EX39 1 sell for about the same as Northam’s typical price. HM Land Registry Price Paid, standard sales. Catchments aren’t published, so the postcode sector stands in for “around the school”.

Schools within 1.6 miles

3 state schools
0.5 mi1 mi1.5 miNAD−CSt George's CofE Infant and…
ABCDNo letterPrimarySecondary / all-through

Northam, EX39 1HT

St George's CofE Infant and Nursery School: common questions

How hard is it to get into St George's CofE Infant and Nursery School?

For September 2026, 33 families put St George's CofE Infant and Nursery School first and all of them were offered a place; 37 places were offered in all.

What is St George's CofE Infant and Nursery School’s Ofsted rating?

Its latest inspection (November 2025) gave a report card: achievement expected standard, safeguarding met. Ofsted stopped giving one-word overall grades in September 2024.

How much do houses cost near St George's CofE Infant and Nursery School?

Homes in its postcode sector, EX39 1, sold for a median £320,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (635 sales).

Sources: DfE Get Information about Schools (16 October 2026), Key Stage 2 performance tables (2023–2025, three-year average) and Key Stage 4 (2025/26, provisional); Ofsted state-funded school inspections as at 30 September 2026. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Also: DfE Key Stage 4 performance, schools data (2023/24 and 2024/25 final, 2025/26 provisional) and Key Stage 2 performance tables 2024/25 by subject; DfE school census, January 2025; DfE school-level applications and offers, September 2019 to 2026 entry; HM Land Registry Price Paid by postcode sector, 2010 to August 2026.

A school’s letter is our own summary of its published results against England’s schools of the same phase; Northam’s School Grade is a separate grade, built from the results of the schools in and around the town against other towns. Map: © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026 (ONS boundaries). Northern Ireland: Source: NISRA; contains Land & Property Services data and Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland information, © Crown copyright, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Scotland: contains National Records of Scotland data, Registers of Scotland data and SEPA data, © Crown copyright / © SEPA 2025, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.