Lamerton CofE Primary Academy, Tavistock
Data last updated 11 Sept 2026
Location
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Key Information
DfE GIASOfsted Rating
Ofsted · 3 months agoReport card - no overall grade (new Ofsted framework from Sep 2024)
Ofsted Insights
What This School Does Well
Lamerton is a warm, family-friendly village school where children are happy, safe and well-behaved. The school excels at enriching pupils' personal development through visits, trips and community links that broaden their horizons and help them understand different cultures and career opportunities. Parents particularly appreciate the staff's support in helping children follow their interests and passions.
Key Strengths
- Strong personal development and wellbeing provision with excellent opportunities for pupils to develop respect, understanding of British values, and awareness of their community and beyond
- High attendance rates and generally positive behaviour, with rare incidents of bullying
- Teaching of phonics and mathematics is a strength of the school
Areas for Improvement
- Curriculum and teaching not planned with enough precision - pupils of different abilities often complete the same work, limiting challenge for advanced learners
- Assessment inconsistencies mean mistakes are not always identified and corrected, and teaching is not adapted to address gaps in pupils' knowledge
- Handwriting teaching lacks rigour, resulting in weaker quality written work across the curriculum
- Support for pupils with special educational needs and disabilities is not precise enough and not always well matched to their needs
Safeguarding
Safeguarding standards are met - leaders have established an open culture where safeguarding is everyone's responsibility and concerns are actively identified and managed, ensuring pupils are safe and feel safe.
Extracurricular Activities
Gardening club, athletics club, cricket club, residential visits to outdoor education centre with climbing and raft-building, trips to Bristol, Plymouth, museums, places of worship, Buckland Abbey, and the zoo, visits from local Member of Parliament, farmers, doctors and midwives, school council, cake sales, art competitions
Lamerton CofE Primary Academy is a village school where pupils are safe, happy and attend regularly with high attendance rates. However, while published outcomes have been historically positive, current pupils do not progress as well as they should through the curriculum due to weaknesses in teaching and curriculum design.
At a Glance
14.9%
Free School Meals
No
Boarding
No
Nursery
No
Sixth Form
No
Special Measures
Primary Performance (KS2)
Academic year 2025/26KS2 Results (% meeting expected standard)
2025/26 academic year
Class Sizes
25.0
Avg class size
27.0
KS2
2
Total classes
2024/25 academic year
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Capacity & Demand
School Occupancy
84%
Available places
47 pupils
56 capacity
9 spare places available
Area Demand Pressure - Tavistock
Based on MHCLG housing supply data for Tavistock
Admissions Demand - Devon
Places available
9,263
Applications
6,758
Got 1st preference
96.2%
Got preferred school
98.9%
Primary admissions across Devon (2025/26)
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Pupil Demographics
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School Funding
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Pupil Absence2024/25
3.81434%
Overall absence
4.44444%
Persistent absence
45
Enrolments
Absence trend
Source: DfE pupil absence statistics. Persistent absence = pupils missing 10%+ sessions.
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