Graded inspection · Mar 2025 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 entry74 applications · 34 places offered · 42 named it first
FaithMay give priority to families of the faith.
- 2026 2.2; Somerset median median 1.8
- 2025 1.9; Somerset median median 1.7
- 2024 2.0; Somerset median median 1.7
- 2023 1.8; Somerset median median 1.8
- 2022 2.5; Somerset median median 1.8
- 2021 2.4; Somerset median median 1.7; as the previous school
- 2020 2.7; Somerset median median 1.8; as the previous school
- 2019 2.6; Somerset median median 1.8; as the previous school
- 2018 3.0; Somerset median median 1.8; as the previous school
- 2017 2.6; Somerset median median 1.9; as the previous school
- 2016 3.0; Somerset median median 1.9; as the previous school
- 2015 2.9; Somerset median median 1.9; as the previous school
- 2014 3.2; Somerset median median 1.8; as the previous school
- This school
- Somerset median
Dashed bars: as St Joseph's Catholic Primary and Nursery School (URN 123847), 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 | 34 | 74 | 2.2 | 42 | 1.24 |
| Sep 2025 | 34 | 66 | 1.9 | 37 | 1.09 |
| Sep 2024 | 34 | 67 | 2.0 | 43 | 1.26 |
| Sep 2023 | 30 | 54 | 1.8 | 30 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2022 | 34 | 85 | 2.5 | 42 | 1.24 |
| Sep 2021 * | 34 | 81 | 2.4 | 41 | 1.21 |
| Sep 2020 * | 34 | 93 | 2.7 | 46 | 1.35 |
| Sep 2019 * | 34 | 87 | 2.6 | 36 | 1.06 |
| Sep 2018 * | 34 | 101 | 3.0 | 48 | 1.41 |
| Sep 2017 * | 33 | 86 | 2.6 | 44 | 1.33 |
| Sep 2016 * | 34 | 102 | 3.0 | 42 | 1.24 |
| Sep 2015 * | 34 | 98 | 2.9 | 41 | 1.21 |
| Sep 2014 * | 34 | 109 | 3.2 | 52 | 1.53 |
How did pupils do in SATs?
DfE KS2 · 2024/25Reading 74% · Writing 86% · Maths 80% → all three 66% met the expected standard, End of Year 6
- This school
- Somerset median
- England median
Every year as a table
| Year | Expected standard | Higher standard | Reading score | Maths score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024/25 | 66% | 17% | 105 | 105 |
| 2023/24 | 73% | 6% | 107 | 103 |
| 2022/23 | 65% | 26% | 105 | 105 |
Subject results are published for the latest year only. Scaled scores run from 80 to 120.
Schools nearby
The 8 nearest primary schools in a straight line, in any local authority
- St Joseph's Catholic Primary and Nursery SchoolThis schoolThis schoolGraded · no overall grade20252.2applications per place 66%met the SATs standard
- 0.3 km · SomersetGood2022
- 1.0 km · SomersetRequires improvement20231.5applications per place
- 1.6 km · Somerset20261.1applications per place 29%met the SATs standard
- 2.7 km · SomersetGood20231.9applications per place 45%met the SATs standard
- 3.2 km · SomersetRemains Good20232.9applications per place 82%met the SATs standard
- 3.3 km · SomersetSerious weaknesses 20261.8applications per place 54%met the SATs standard
- 4.9 km · SomersetStandards maintained20252.1applications per place
- 4.9 km · SomersetGraded · no overall grade20252.2applications per place 29%met the SATs standard
- 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
- Primary
- URN · DfE number
- 148951 · 933/3402
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Capacity
- 238 pupils · 265 on roll
- Free school meals
- 19.4% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Nursery
- Has nursery classes
- Opened
- 1 March 2022
- Replaced
- St Joseph's Catholic Primary and Nursery School (URN 123847)
- Address
- Oxford Street, Burnham-on-Sea, TA8 1LG
- Local authority
- Somerset
Data last changed 3 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources