St James Church of England Primary and Nursery School
Okehampton, EX20 1GJ · Devon local authority
Okehampton’s School Grade C− better than 17% of towns in England
What stands out about St James Church of England Primary and Nursery School
- Its own letter, D−: Key Stage 2 results near the bottom of England’s primary schools (better than 4%)
- Over capacity: 244 pupils for 210 places
- Ofsted: Good, January 2023 (shown, not graded)
- 85% of families who put it first got a place for September 2026 (29 of 34)
- Homes in its postcode sector (EX20 1) sold for a median £270,000; Okehampton’s is £266,500
How hard is it to get a place at St James Church of England Primary and Nursery School?
85% of the families who put it first got a place for September 2026.
Years when some first choices missed out: 2020 (11), 2021 (10), 2022 (13), 2023 (6), 2024 (8), 2025 (6), 2026 (5). 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. Dartmoor Multi Academy Trust sets the admissions rules. Apply through Devon council’s coordinated admissions.
Outline = places offered · green = families who put it first · striped = more first choices than places
85% got their first choice
Who goes here
DfE school census, January 2025248 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.
Girls and boys
St James Church of England Primary and Nursery School’s letter
Its own results against England’s schools, not the town’s School Grade.
How school letters are worked out
Each school’s measure is compared with every graded school in England of the same phase: for primaries, the share of pupils meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (DfE’s three-year average); for secondaries, Attainment 8 and the share with grade 5 or above in English and maths, each turned into a z-score against England’s schools and averaged. The letter comes from the share of those schools it beats, in the same bands as every grade on the site. The same method gives U.S. schools their letters, against their own state.
Graded: England’s open mainstream state schools with published results (grammar schools included, which select by test). Not graded: special schools, alternative provision, nurseries, 16–19 colleges, UTCs and studio schools, Welsh schools. Ofsted plays no part.
Ofsted inspections
Shown, not graded: Ofsted is never part of a letter or the School Grade.
Graded inspection: Good, January 2023.
Living near St James Church of England Primary and Nursery School
For families thinking of moving: what homes cost around the school, and the other schools close by.
Home prices in EX20 1, the school’s postcode sector
Okehampton property prices →Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025
By type, the 36 months to August 2026
Homes in EX20 1 sell for about the same as Okehampton’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
2 state schoolsLocation
Directions ↗Okehampton, EX20 1GJ
St James Church of England Primary and Nursery School: common questions
Is St James Church of England Primary and Nursery School a good school?
By its published results, well below average: its Key Stage 2 results are better than 4% of England’s primary schools (its letter is D−), with 0% of pupils meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, against 62% for England’s schools. Ofsted: Good, January 2023.
How hard is it to get into St James Church of England Primary and Nursery School?
For September 2026, 34 families put St James Church of England Primary and Nursery School first and 29 of them were offered a place; 30 places were offered in all.
What is St James Church of England Primary and Nursery School’s Ofsted rating?
Its latest inspection outcome is Good (January 2023).
How much do houses cost near St James Church of England Primary and Nursery School?
Homes in its postcode sector, EX20 1, sold for a median £270,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (591 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; Okehampton’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.
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