Herons' Moor Academy

Academy converter·Primary school Weston-super-Mare, North Somerset·BS24 7DX
Composite score
49.8
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#7,325
National rank
#717
In South West
#32
In North Somerset
Top 50%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
73%
% achieving higher RWM
2%
Reading average scaled score
108.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
106.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Ofsted judgements

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Quality of education
Good
Behaviour and attitudes
Good
Personal development
Good
Leadership and management
Good
Safeguarding effective?
Yes
Early years provision
Good

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
100%
48 first choices, 50 places
First choices per place
0.96
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
76
any preference, for 50 places
First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.09
00.511.5
1 per place
0.8920221.1020231.0020240.8720250.962026

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

Every child who put Herons' Moor Academy 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
3–11
Pupils on roll
448
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
18.1%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
17.9%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
10.0%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
2.0%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
6.3%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
16.5%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
26.0
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£5,426
Typical primary: £6,960

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

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Location

Herons' Moor Academy at a glance

Located in Weston-super-Mare, North Somerset, Herons' Moor Academy is a primary school, classified by the DfE as a converter academy. The school educates roughly 448 pupils aged 3 to 11. 73% of its pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of Key Stage 2, above the national average (national figure: 61%). The proportion reaching the expected standard has risen by 10.0 percentage points year on year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it around the middle of primary schools nationally.

Pupils achieved an average scaled score of 108 in reading and 106 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). 2% reached the higher standard across all three subjects (around 8% do so nationally). Getting a place is straightforward: for the September 2026 intake every family who made Herons' Moor Academy their first choice was offered one of its 50 Reception places. Overall pupil absence was 6.3%. There are about 26.0 pupils per teacher. Herons' Moor Academy 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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