Graded inspection · Feb 2024 Previous framework
- Quality of education
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Personal development
- Leadership and management
This schoolOther secondary schools in North Somerset
What did Ofsted find?
Ofsted data to 30 September 2026| Area | Outstanding | Good | Requires improvement | Inadequate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quality of education | Good | |||
| Behaviour and attitudes | Good | |||
| Personal development | Good | |||
| Leadership and management | Good |
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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 entry387 applications · 269 places offered · 264 named it first
- 2026 1.4; North Somerset median median 1.7
- 2025 1.7; North Somerset median median 1.7
- 2024 1.8; North Somerset median median 1.8
- 2023 1.7; North Somerset median median 1.7
- 2022 1.8; North Somerset median median 1.8
- 2021 1.7; North Somerset median median 1.8
- 2020 1.9; North Somerset median median 1.8
- 2019 1.9; North Somerset median median 1.9
- 2018 2.1; North Somerset median median 1.7
- 2017 2.3; North Somerset median median 1.7
- 2016 2.4; North Somerset median median 1.6
- 2015 2.3; North Somerset median median 1.6
- 2014 2.1; North Somerset median median 1.7
- This school
- North 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 | 269 | 387 | 1.4 | 264 | 0.98 |
| Sep 2025 | 283 | 489 | 1.7 | 338 | 1.19 |
| Sep 2024 | 284 | 515 | 1.8 | 347 | 1.22 |
| Sep 2023 | 286 | 495 | 1.7 | 314 | 1.10 |
| Sep 2022 | 292 | 527 | 1.8 | 348 | 1.19 |
| Sep 2021 | 295 | 511 | 1.7 | 311 | 1.05 |
| Sep 2020 | 293 | 544 | 1.9 | 339 | 1.16 |
| Sep 2019 | 326 | 608 | 1.9 | 354 | 1.09 |
| Sep 2018 | 298 | 639 | 2.1 | 375 | 1.26 |
| Sep 2017 | 256 | 595 | 2.3 | 345 | 1.35 |
| Sep 2016 | 254 | 609 | 2.4 | 371 | 1.46 |
| Sep 2015 | 250 | 562 | 2.3 | 337 | 1.35 |
| Sep 2014 | 256 | 530 | 2.1 | 314 | 1.23 |
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.) | 297 | 43.5 | 31% | 60% | – |
| 2024/25 | 290 | 44.2 | 36% | 63% | – |
| 2023/24 | 314 | 44.3 | 36% | 61% | −0.13 |
| 2022/23 | 292 | 44.8 | 38% | 58% | 0.00 |
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
- Priory Community SchoolThis schoolThis schoolGood20241.4applications per place 43.5Attainment 8
- 1.7 km · North Somerset20261.6applications per place 41.9Attainment 8
- 3.0 km · North SomersetGood20231.7applications per place 40.5Attainment 8
- 4.8 km · North SomersetRemains Good20231.9applications per place 47.2Attainment 8
- 6.1 km · North SomersetGood20231.6applications per place 38.9Attainment 8
- 7.6 km · North SomersetGraded · no overall grade20251.4applications per place 49.0Attainment 8
- 10.3 km · North SomersetGood20241.9applications per place 51.3Attainment 8
- 12.9 km · North SomersetGood20242.0applications per place 46.6Attainment 8
- 13.2 km · North SomersetStandards maintained20251.8applications per place 52.6Attainment 8
- 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
- 137300 · 802/4143
- Trust
- Pathway Trust
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Capacity
- 1,500 pupils · 1,486 on roll
- Free school meals
- 18.5% of pupils (England median 23%)
- SEN provision
- SEN unit
- Opened
- 17 August 2011
- Replaced
- Priory Community School (URN 109316)
- Address
- Queensway, Weston-Super-Mare, BS22 6BP
- Local authority
- North Somerset
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources