Graded inspection · Dec 2024 Previous framework
- Quality of education
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Personal development
- Leadership and management
This schoolOther secondary schools in Somerset
What did Ofsted find?
Ofsted data to 30 September 2026| Area | Outstanding | Good | Requires improvement | Inadequate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quality of education | Requires improvement | |||
| Behaviour and attitudes | Good | |||
| Personal development | Good | |||
| Leadership and management | Requires improvement |
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About these grades
Ofsted's report cards (from November 2025) grade each area on five steps and give no overall grade. Earlier grades come from a different framework; Ofsted says the two cannot be compared, so they are never converted here. Ofsted: "We normally inspect schools every 4 years or at any time if we have concerns." Methodology.
How hard is it to get a place?
DfE · Sept 2026 entry191 applications · 167 places offered · 141 named it first
- 2026 1.1; Somerset median median 1.4
- 2025 1.1; Somerset median median 1.3
- 2024 1.1; Somerset median median 1.2
- 2023 1.1; Somerset median median 1.2
- 2022 1.2; Somerset median median 1.3
- 2021 1.2; Somerset median median 1.3
- 2020 1.2; Somerset median median 1.4
- 2019 1.2; Somerset median median 1.4
- 2018 1.4; Somerset median median 1.5
- 2017 1.3; Somerset median median 1.6
- 2016 1.4; Somerset median median 1.6
- 2015 1.5; Somerset median median 1.7
- 2014 1.4; Somerset median median 1.5
- This school
- Somerset median
Year 7 applications for September 2027 close 31 October 2026, through your council
How this is measured
Applications per place: every application naming the school at any preference, divided by places offered on National Offer Day. It is not your chance of a place. Methodology.
| Entry | Places | Applications | Per place | First preferences | First-pref. ratio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2026 | 167 | 191 | 1.1 | 141 | 0.84 |
| Sep 2025 | 175 | 197 | 1.1 | 151 | 0.86 |
| Sep 2024 | 154 | 173 | 1.1 | 143 | 0.93 |
| Sep 2023 | 168 | 184 | 1.1 | 155 | 0.92 |
| Sep 2022 | 190 | 219 | 1.2 | 179 | 0.94 |
| Sep 2021 | 195 | 227 | 1.2 | 186 | 0.95 |
| Sep 2020 | 183 | 215 | 1.2 | 175 | 0.96 |
| Sep 2019 | 179 | 208 | 1.2 | 174 | 0.97 |
| Sep 2018 | 181 | 259 | 1.4 | 203 | 1.12 |
| Sep 2017 | 186 | 249 | 1.3 | 196 | 1.05 |
| Sep 2016 | 170 | 245 | 1.4 | 190 | 1.12 |
| Sep 2015 | 169 | 259 | 1.5 | 188 | 1.11 |
| Sep 2014 | 159 | 224 | 1.4 | 165 | 1.04 |
How did pupils do at GCSE?
DfE KS4 · 2025/26 provisionalEvery year as a table
| Year | Pupils | Attainment 8 | 5+ Eng & maths | 4+ Eng & maths | Progress 8 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025/26 (prov.) | 195 | 41.6 | 30% | 57% | – |
| 2024/25 | 169 | 43.8 | 39% | 62% | – |
| 2023/24 | 184 | 41.0 | 36% | 59% | −0.32 |
| 2022/23 | 187 | 42.3 | 32% | 56% | −0.19 |
Progress 8 is not published for 2024/25 or 2025/26: those pupils had no key stage 2 tests in 2020 and 2021.
Schools nearby
The 8 nearest secondary schools in a straight line, in any local authority
- Kingsmead AcademyThis schoolThis schoolGraded · no overall grade20241.1applications per place 41.6Attainment 8
- 8.7 km · SomersetGood20231.3applications per place 44.0Attainment 8
- 13.7 km · SomersetOutstanding20233.0applications per place 52.7Attainment 8
- Requires significant improvement 2025
- 14.7 km · DevonGraded · no overall grade20251.8applications per place 54.6Attainment 8
- 14.7 km · SomersetSpecial measures Graded · no overall grade2025
- 15.7 km · SomersetRemains Good20233.0applications per place 49.7Attainment 8
- 17.4 km · SomersetSpecial measures Inadequate20231.3applications per place 42.2Attainment 8
- 19.2 km · DevonSpecial measures Graded · no overall grade2024
- Exceptional
- Strong standard
- Expected standard
- Needs attention
- Urgent improvement
- Does not apply
Eight dots, one per area: inclusion, curriculum, achievement, attendance, personal development, early years, post-16, leadership. Colours follow Ofsted's report card scale; Schoolfile is independent of Ofsted.
School details
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- URN · DfE number
- 136639 · 933/4355
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Capacity
- 1,050 pupils · 892 on roll
- Free school meals
- 19.1% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Opened
- 1 April 2011
- Replaced
- Kingsmead Community School (URN 123884)
- Address
- Wiveliscombe, Taunton, TA4 2NE
- Local authority
- Somerset
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources