Shiphay Learning Academy
Paignton, TQ2 7NF · Torbay local authority
Paignton’s School Grade B+ better than 72% of towns in England
What stands out about Shiphay Learning Academy
- Its own letter, B: Key Stage 2 results better than 63% of England’s primary schools
- 67% meet the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 5 points above England’s schools
- Ofsted: Inspected, October 2024 (shown, not graded)
- 88% of families who put it first got a place for September 2026 (30 of 34)
- Homes in its postcode sector (TQ2 7) sold for a median £260,000; Paignton’s is £260,000
Results
DfE · Key Stage 2Reading, writing and maths 67%
Met the expected standard, DfE’s 3-year average 2023–2025 · higher than 63% of England’s 14,979 graded primaries · Torbay avg 62%
Each subject, 2025
Met the expected standard; the mark is England’s schools · average scaled score: reading 107, maths 104 (100 = the expected standard)
Disadvantaged pupils, 2025
Met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths: the 20 disadvantaged pupils and the rest, beside England’s schools
England’s figures are of its graded mainstream state schools, each school counted once; grammar schools are included, which is why the right-hand tail is long. Small cohorts are suppressed.
How hard is it to get a place at Shiphay Learning Academy?
88% of the families who put it first got a place for September 2026.
Years when some first choices missed out: 2021 (1), 2022 (3), 2026 (4). 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. Riviera Education Trust sets the admissions rules. Apply through Torbay council’s coordinated admissions.
Outline = places offered · green = families who put it first · striped = more first choices than places · the 10 most in demand
88% got their first choice
Paignton and Torbay, side by side
2023–2025All 29 graded primaries in Torbay. Schools with more pupils on free school meals usually score lower, so a school above the crowd for its free school meals is doing better than its intake predicts. Paignton’s schools are coloured by their letter.
Show as a table
| School | Letter | Free school meals | KS2 expected standard |
|---|---|---|---|
| Galmpton Church of England Primary School | A+ | 10% | 85% |
| Hayes School | A | 43% | 82% |
| Ilsham Church of England Academy | A | 14% | 82% |
| Torre Church of England Academy | A | 26% | 79% |
| Collaton St Mary Church of England Primary School | A− | 28% | 74% |
| Ellacombe Church of England Academy | B+ | 41% | 70% |
| Warberry CofE Academy | B+ | 19% | 70% |
| Lift Barton Hill | B+ | 39% | 69% |
| Furzeham Primary School | B+ | 25% | 69% |
| Shiphay Learning Academy | B | 18% | 67% |
| Roselands Primary School | B | 18% | 67% |
| Brixham Church of England Primary School | B | 25% | 67% |
| St Margaret Clitherow Catholic Primary School | B | 50% | 65% |
| Sherwell Valley Primary School | B− | 17% | 63% |
| Sacred Heart Catholic School | B− | 24% | 63% |
| Curledge Street Academy | B− | 42% | 62% |
| Preston Primary School | C+ | 11% | 60% |
| Eden Park Primary & Nursery School | C+ | 38% | 58% |
| White Rock Primary School | C | 18% | 57% |
| St Margaret's Academy | C | 29% | 55% |
| Kings Ash Academy | C | 62% | 55% |
| Oldway Primary School | C | 16% | 55% |
| Homelands Primary School | C | 41% | 54% |
| Our Lady of the Angels Catholic Primary School | C− | 28% | 53% |
| All Saints Babbacombe CofE Primary School | C− | 20% | 51% |
| Cockington Primary School | D | 35% | 44% |
| Watcombe Primary School | D | 34% | 43% |
| St Marychurch Church of England Primary and Nursery School | D | 27% | 40% |
| Upton St James CofE Primary School | D− | 46% | 30% |
Who goes here
DfE school census, January 2025416 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
Shiphay Learning Academy’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 (no overall grade since September 2024), October 2024.
Living near Shiphay Learning Academy
For families thinking of moving: what homes cost around the school, and the other schools close by.
Home prices in TQ2 7, the school’s postcode sector
Paignton property prices →Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025
By type, the 36 months to August 2026
Homes in TQ2 7 sell for about the same as Paignton’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
11 state schoolsLocation
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Paignton, TQ2 7NF
Shiphay Learning Academy: common questions
Is Shiphay Learning Academy a good school?
By its published results, above average: its Key Stage 2 results are better than 63% of England’s primary schools (its letter is B), with 67% of pupils meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, against 62% for England’s schools. Ofsted: Inspected, October 2024.
How hard is it to get into Shiphay Learning Academy?
For September 2026, 34 families put Shiphay Learning Academy first and 30 of them were offered a place; 30 places were offered in all.
What is Shiphay Learning Academy’s Ofsted rating?
Its latest inspection outcome is Inspected (October 2024).
How much do houses cost near Shiphay Learning Academy?
Homes in its postcode sector, TQ2 7, sold for a median £260,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (444 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; Paignton’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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