Barwick and Stoford Community Primary School

School overview

Barwick and Stoford Community Primary School is a primary school serving Yeovil, Somerset, classified by the DfE as a community school. It has 65 pupils aged 4 to 11 on roll. At its most recent graded inspection, Ofsted rated Barwick and Stoford Community Primary School 'Requires improvement'. In the most recent Key Stage 2 SATs, 9% of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths combined — well below the national average of 61%. That is down 24.0 percentage points in the proportion reaching the expected standard on the previous year, though small year groups can make these figures swing sharply from year to year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it in the lower half of primary schools nationally.

Pupils achieved an average scaled score of 101 in reading and 100 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). The school serves a community with above-average levels of disadvantage: about 45% of pupils have been eligible for free school meals in the last six years, compared with roughly 24% nationally — useful context when reading the results above. If you are considering Barwick and Stoford Community Primary School, it may be worth asking how leaders have responded to Ofsted's findings and what has changed since the inspection. 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 further down the page.