Graded inspection · Feb 2024 Previous framework
- Quality of education
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Personal development
- Leadership and management
This schoolOther primary schools in 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 | |||
| Early years provision | 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 entry63 applications · 47 places offered · 45 named it first
- 2026 1.3; Somerset median median 1.8
- 2025 1.3; Somerset median median 1.7
- 2024 1.2; Somerset median median 1.7
- 2023 1.4; Somerset median median 1.8
- 2022 1.3; Somerset median median 1.8
- 2021 1.4; Somerset median median 1.7
- 2020 1.3; Somerset median median 1.8
- 2019 1.5; Somerset median median 1.8
- 2018 1.3; Somerset median median 1.8
- 2017 1.7; Somerset median median 1.9
- 2016 1.4; Somerset median median 1.9; as the previous school
- 2015 1.6; Somerset median median 1.9; as the previous school
- 2014 1.6; Somerset median median 1.8; as the previous school
- This school
- Somerset median
Dashed bars: as Minehead First School (URN 123656), the previous school.
Reception applications for September 2027 close 15 January 2027, 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 | 47 | 63 | 1.3 | 45 | 0.96 |
| Sep 2025 | 53 | 71 | 1.3 | 48 | 0.91 |
| Sep 2024 | 59 | 70 | 1.2 | 50 | 0.85 |
| Sep 2023 | 41 | 57 | 1.4 | 41 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2022 | 50 | 66 | 1.3 | 41 | 0.82 |
| Sep 2021 | 44 | 61 | 1.4 | 44 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2020 | 55 | 73 | 1.3 | 52 | 0.95 |
| Sep 2019 | 49 | 71 | 1.5 | 49 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2018 | 73 | 94 | 1.3 | 67 | 0.92 |
| Sep 2017 | 59 | 98 | 1.7 | 52 | 0.88 |
| Sep 2016 * | 55 | 78 | 1.4 | 55 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2015 * | 53 | 86 | 1.6 | 47 | 0.89 |
| Sep 2014 * | 51 | 80 | 1.6 | 51 | 1.00 |
Schools nearby
The 8 nearest primary schools in a straight line, in any local authority
- Minehead First SchoolThis schoolThis schoolGood20241.3applications per place
- 0.5 km · SomersetStandards maintained20251.8applications per place
- 3.0 km · SomersetRemains Good20241.9applications per place
- 4.0 km · SomersetGood20231.3applications per place
- 8.2 km · SomersetRemains Good20231.3applications per place
- 8.2 km · SomersetStandards maintained20251.0applications per place
- 9.1 km · SomersetGood20231.4applications per place
- 11.2 km · SomersetGraded · no overall grade20241.4applications per place
- 11.7 km · SomersetGood20241.0applications per place
School details
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- URN · DfE number
- 142800 · 933/2048
- Capacity
- 326 pupils · 286 on roll
- Free school meals
- 16.8% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Nursery
- Has nursery classes
- Opened
- 1 May 2016
- Replaced
- Minehead First School (URN 123656)
- Address
- Townsend Road, Minehead, TA24 5RG
- Local authority
- Somerset
Data last changed 3 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources