Devon School Catchment Areas

Devon runs one of the larger school estates in England — 308 primary and 38 secondary schools, spread across market towns, villages and denser urban centres.

Expect the tightest competition in and around Exeter and Newton Abbot, where popular primaries are regularly oversubscribed and last-distance-offered figures can shrink to a few hundred metres.

Selective schools are part of the mix in Devon — for those, passing the admissions test comes first and catchment distance only applies as a tiebreaker.

For the exact catchment map and the previous year's last-distance-offered figure, always check Devon's current admissions policy before assuming your postcode is inside a school's boundary.