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St Rumon's Church of England Infants School

St Rumon's Church of England Infants School

PrimaryAges 5–7AcademyChurch of England

Tavistock, PL19 9EA · Devon local authority

Tavistock’s School Grade D better than 13% of towns in England

Photo: Simon Cobb · CC0 · Wikimedia Commons
Getting in
23/23
first choices offered a place, 2026 (England: 93%)
How full
73 pupils
54% of its 135 places
Free school meals
10%
10 in 100 pupils eligible · outlined square = England’s schools (25)
The gist

What stands out about St Rumon's Church of England Infants School

  • No letter for this school: the reason is below.
  • Room to spare: 73 pupils for 135 places
  • 10% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (fewer than England’s 25%)
  • Ofsted: Good, November 2022 (shown, not graded)
  • Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026 (23 of 23)
  • Homes in its postcode sector (PL19 9) sold for a median £320,000; Tavistock’s is £280,000
Getting in

How hard is it to get a place at St Rumon's Church of England Infants School?

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

23
families put it first for September 2026
24
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
Red figures: first choices not offered a place

Years when some first choices missed out: 2024 (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. St Christopher'S C of E (Primary) Multi Academy Trust sets the admissions rules. Apply through Devon council’s coordinated admissions.

Demand for primary schools in Tavistock, September 2026

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

1.00 per place
100% got their first choice
1.00 per place
100% got their first choice
St Rumon's CofE Infants
0.96 per place
100% got their first choice

Who goes here

DfE school census, January 2025

80 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
10%England 15.3%
EHC plan
3.8%England 3.6%
English as an additional language
6.3%England 18.8%
Free school meals in the last 6 years
13.8%England 26.2%

Girls and boys

Girls 53%Boys 48%
Its letter

No letter for St Rumon's Church of England Infants 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.

Graded inspection: Good, November 2022.

The full reports on Ofsted ↗

Living nearby

Living near St Rumon's Church of England Infants School

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

Home prices in PL19 9, the school’s postcode sector

Tavistock property prices →
£320,000
median sale, 293 sales in 36 months · Tavistock £280,000

Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025

£150K£200K£250K£300K£350K£400K2010201520202025PL19 9Tavistock
PL19 9Tavistock

By type, the 36 months to August 2026

Detached
£446K
Semi-detached
£272K
Terraced
£250K
Flat
£155K
PL19 9Tavistock

Homes in PL19 9 sell for a little over Tavistock’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

4 state schools
0.5 mi1 mi1.5 miNCC−CCSt Rumon's Church of Englan…
ABCDNo letterPrimarySecondary / all-through

Tavistock, PL19 9EA

St Rumon's Church of England Infants School: common questions

How hard is it to get into St Rumon's Church of England Infants School?

For September 2026, 23 families put St Rumon's Church of England Infants School first and all of them were offered a place; 24 places were offered in all.

What is St Rumon's Church of England Infants School’s Ofsted rating?

Its latest inspection outcome is Good (November 2022).

How much do houses cost near St Rumon's Church of England Infants School?

Homes in its postcode sector, PL19 9, sold for a median £320,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (293 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; Tavistock’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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