Dunster First School

Community school·First school Minehead, Somerset·TA24 6RX

School type

First school

Ages 4–9

Key Stage 2 performance

Dunster First School is a first school for pupils aged 4–9. Pupils move on to a separate junior or middle school before Year 6, so the school does not enter pupils for the Key Stage 2 SATs and has no KS2 results to publish.

This applies to every first school in England — it does not mean data is missing. Ofsted judgements and school information are shown below.

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first

94%

17 first choices, 17 places

First choices per place

1.00

fewer first choices than places

Applications naming the school

any preference, for 17 places

First preferences per place, last five years▶ 0.00

00.511.5

1 per place

0.8920221.0020230.9020241.0020251.002026

Red dashed line = one first choice per place. How to read this

We do not have a checked cut-off distance for Dunster First School yet. Somerset does publish allocation figures and we are working through them council by council — we only show a distance once we have found it in the council’s own document.

Application figures: DfE, school level applications and offers (2026 intake).

School profile

Age range: 4–9
Pupils on roll: 103
Gender: Mixed
Religious character: None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6

18.4%

Typical primary: 21.5%

% EAL

3.9%

Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support

4.8%

Typical primary: 14.3%

% with an EHC plan

1.9%

Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence

6.9%

Typical primary: 5.3%

Persistently absent

21.4%

Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher

17.1

Typical primary: 20.7

Spend per pupil

£10,325

Typical primary: £6,960

“Typical” = the median primary school in England. What this means

Nearby primary schools

Minehead Middle School Minehead · 1.6 mi 18.7 Danesfield Church of England Voluntary Controlled Community Middle School Taunton · 5.5 mi 21.0 Stogumber CofE Primary School Taunton · 7.9 mi 55.9

Location

Official sources

Latest Ofsted report reports.ofsted.gov.uk DfE Compare School Performance compare-school-performance.service.gov.uk GIAS school details get-information-schools.service.gov.uk

School overview

Dunster First School is a primary school serving Minehead, Somerset, classified by the DfE as a community school. It has 103 pupils aged 4 to 9 on roll.

94% of the families who made Dunster First School their first choice were offered a Reception place for September 2026, even though the school made at least as many offers as it had first choices - the rest withdrew, moved or fell outside a priority group. Overall pupil absence was 6.9%. There are about 17.1 pupils per teacher. Dunster First School does not currently have a recent graded Ofsted judgement on record (often the case for newer or recently converted schools), so it is worth asking when its next inspection is expected. This overview is generated automatically from the latest published DfE performance tables and Ofsted data; figures are rounded, and you can check the originals via the official links above.