St George's Catholic School

Voluntary aided school·Primary school Taunton, Somerset·TA1 3NR
Composite score
44.4
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National rank
#944
In South West
#85
In Somerset
Top 63%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
63%
% achieving higher RWM
3%
Reading average scaled score
108.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
102.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
85%
33 first choices, 30 places
First choices per place
1.10
more first choices than places
Applications naming the school
63
any preference, for 30 places
First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.23
00.511.5
1 per place
1.3020221.0320231.0020240.8820251.102026

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

We do not have a checked cut-off distance for St George's Catholic 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
4–11
Pupils on roll
223
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
Roman Catholic

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
9.9%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
67.7%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
11.7%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
3.6%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
4.8%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
7.1%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
19.7
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£5,903
Typical primary: £6,960

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

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About St George's Catholic School

St George's Catholic School is a primary school in Taunton, Somerset, classified by the DfE as a voluntary aided school with a Roman Catholic religious character. Around 223 pupils aged 4 to 11 attend the school. 63% of its pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of Key Stage 2, broadly in line with the national average (national figure: 61%). The proportion reaching the expected standard has risen by 11.0 percentage points year on 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 108 in reading and 102 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). 3% reached the higher standard across all three subjects (around 8% do so nationally). St George's Catholic School is oversubscribed: about 8 in 10 of the families who made it their first choice were offered a Reception place for September 2026, with 33 first choices for 30 places. Overall pupil absence was 4.8%. There are about 19.7 pupils per teacher. Its intake is relatively advantaged, with around 10% of pupils eligible for free school meals in the last six years versus about 24% nationally. St George's Catholic 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.

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