Graded inspection · Apr 2025 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 | 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 entry83 applications · 60 places offered · 52 named it first
- 2026 1.4; Somerset median median 1.4
- 2025 1.4; Somerset median median 1.3
- 2024 1.2; Somerset median median 1.2
- 2023 1.2; Somerset median median 1.2
- 2022 1.1; Somerset median median 1.3
- 2021 1.3; Somerset median median 1.3
- 2020 1.2; Somerset median median 1.4
- 2019 1.0; Somerset median median 1.4; as the previous school
- 2018 1.6; Somerset median median 1.5; as the previous school
- 2017 1.6; Somerset median median 1.6; as the previous school
- 2016 1.4; Somerset median median 1.6; as the previous school
- 2015 1.6; Somerset median median 1.7; as the previous school
- 2014 1.2; Somerset median median 1.5; as the previous school
- This school
- Somerset median
Dashed bars: as King Arthur's Community School (URN 123869), the previous school.
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 | 60 | 83 | 1.4 | 52 | 0.87 |
| Sep 2025 | 72 | 102 | 1.4 | 70 | 0.97 |
| Sep 2024 | 95 | 113 | 1.2 | 87 | 0.92 |
| Sep 2023 | 96 | 118 | 1.2 | 88 | 0.92 |
| Sep 2022 | 114 | 124 | 1.1 | 100 | 0.88 |
| Sep 2021 | 91 | 114 | 1.3 | 87 | 0.96 |
| Sep 2020 | 86 | 106 | 1.2 | 79 | 0.92 |
| Sep 2019 * | 81 | 82 | 1.0 | 56 | 0.69 |
| Sep 2018 * | 66 | 105 | 1.6 | 62 | 0.94 |
| Sep 2017 * | 59 | 93 | 1.6 | 51 | 0.86 |
| Sep 2016 * | 69 | 96 | 1.4 | 47 | 0.68 |
| Sep 2015 * | 71 | 115 | 1.6 | 71 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2014 * | 92 | 112 | 1.2 | 84 | 0.91 |
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.) | 84 | 38.8 | 36% | 50% | – |
| 2024/25 | 73 | 40.6 | 34% | 56% | – |
| 2023/24 | 78 | 40.3 | 32% | 54% | −0.21 |
| 2022/23 | 73 | 36.8 | 26% | 47% | −0.59 |
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
- King Arthur's SchoolThis schoolThis schoolGraded · no overall grade20251.4applications per place 38.8Attainment 8
- 6.2 km · SomersetGood20231.6applications per place 47.1Attainment 8
- 7.6 km · Somerset20261.3applications per place 44.9Attainment 8
- 11.1 km · DorsetGood2023
- 12.5 km · DorsetRemains Good20231.5applications per place 47.4Attainment 8
- 15.9 km · Dorset20261.7applications per place 41.4Attainment 8
- 17.0 km · Somerset20261.3applications per place 39.7Attainment 8
- 17.6 km · DorsetGood20231.6applications per place 40.1Attainment 8
- 17.8 km · SomersetGood20241.4applications per place 45.3Attainment 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 sponsor led
- Phase
- Secondary
- URN · DfE number
- 147016 · 933/4006
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Capacity
- 700 pupils · 450 on roll
- Free school meals
- 27.8% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Opened
- 1 April 2019
- Replaced
- King Arthur's Community School (URN 123869)
- Address
- West Hill, Wincanton, BA9 9BX
- Local authority
- Somerset
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources