Somervale Secondary School

Academy converter·Secondary school Radstock, Bath and North East Somerset·BA3 2JD
Composite score
56.2
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#1,704
National rank
#163
In South West
#9
In Bath and North East Somerset
Top 54%
Nationally

Performance (KS4 GCSE)

Attainment 8 score
45.0
National avg ≈ 46
Progress 8 score
—
% achieving 9–5 in English & Maths
40%
% achieving 9–4 in English & Maths
63%
% EBacc grade 5+
19%
EBacc average points score
3.97

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
100%
103 first choices, 120 places
First choices per place
0.86
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
300
any preference, for 120 places
Applications from another council area
11%
First preferences per place, last five years▼ 0.12
00.511.5
1 per place
0.9620220.9920230.8020240.9820250.862026

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

Every child who put Somervale Secondary School first was offered a place in 2026, so no distance cut-off applied: living further away did not cost a place that year.

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

School profile

Age range
11–18
Pupils on roll
794
Gender
Mixed
Admissions
Non-Selective

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
23.8%
Typical secondary: 27.5%
% EAL
2.1%
Typical secondary: 12.0%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
25.4%
Typical secondary: 13.7%
% with an EHC plan
5.7%
Typical secondary: 2.9%

Attendance

Overall absence
7.8%
Typical secondary: 8.9%
Persistently absent
22.3%
Typical secondary: 25.7%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
19.0
Typical secondary: 16.7
Spend per pupil
£6,886
Typical secondary: £7,815

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

What pupils do next

The share of this school's Year 11 leavers in education, training or employment for at least two terms afterwards.

In education, training or work
90%
109 pupils tracked
Stayed in education
75%
Apprenticeship
10%
Employment
5%

DfE, KS4 destination measures.

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Location

Somervale Secondary School at a glance

Located in Radstock, Bath and North East Somerset, Somervale Secondary School is a secondary school, classified by the DfE as a converter academy. The school educates roughly 794 pupils aged 11 to 18. The school's average Attainment 8 score in the latest GCSE results was 45.0 — broadly in line with the national average (national average: 46). Its Attainment 8 score has risen by 1.7 points year on year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it around the middle of secondary schools nationally.

40% of pupils achieved a grade 5 or above in both English and maths, below the national average of about 45%. 63% achieved a standard pass (grade 4+) in English and maths. Getting a place is straightforward: for the September 2026 intake every family who made Somervale Secondary School their first choice was offered one of its 120 Year 7 places. After Year 11, 90% of its leavers went on to education, an apprenticeship or work that they stayed in for at least two terms. Overall pupil absence was 7.8%. There are about 19.0 pupils per teacher. Somervale Secondary 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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