SMALL WORLD! When I retired after twenty years in schools, mostly as a primary TA, I did several more years of voluntary work, including support in ICT classes at Newton Abbot College (which previously was Knowles Hill School) and KS1 support at Bearnes.
Bearnes is a small school in the centre of town, in a slightly cramped but recently upgraded, Victorian building, and with a very caring and supportive staff. (It's a few years since I was there, but I just looked at their website, and many of the key staff are still there.) They also link with a rural school at Hennock, and share some special activities and events.
Just outside Newton Abbot, at East Ogwell, Canada Hill Primary is larger, has a modern building and playing fields etc, and a good reputation, but may well be oversubscribed.
Teign School is a couple of miles east of Newton Abbot; NA College is right in town, Coombeshead half a mile or less out. Coombeshead were (and probably still are) well known for sports, and the performing arts. NA College is possibly the more 'intimate' and supportive environment for the quieter, more sensitive child.
In the Torquay area there are also highly regarded Grammar Schools (selective entry).
Travel in the summer months, with Torbay and Dartmoor holiday traffic, is one of the few drawbacks to the area, and there is also additional housebuilding being considered for several areas, but that is true of many parts of the country.
Good luck, and come back if I can be of any more help. At least, these days with websites you can find out things that previously would have been difficult, if not impossible.