St Andrew's Church School

Academy converter·Primary school Taunton, Somerset·TA2 6HA
Composite score
30.6
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#13,271
National rank
#1409
In South West
#142
In Somerset
Top 90%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
47%
% achieving higher RWM
0%
Reading average scaled score
106.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
101.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Ofsted judgements

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

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
100%
15 first choices, 15 places
First choices per place
1.00
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
46
any preference, for 15 places
First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.03
00.511.5
1 per place
1.0320220.8520231.0020240.9720251.002026

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

Every child who put St Andrew's Church 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
4–11
Pupils on roll
236
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
Church of England

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
15.7%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
26.7%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
7.6%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
3.8%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
5.1%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
13.1%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
22.1
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£5,653
Typical primary: £6,960

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

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School overview

St Andrew's Church School is a primary school serving Taunton, Somerset, classified by the DfE as a converter academy with a Church of England religious character. It has 236 pupils aged 4 to 11 on roll. In the most recent Key Stage 2 SATs, 47% of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths combined — below the national average of 61%. That marks an improvement of 9.0 percentage points in the proportion reaching the expected standard on the previous 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 106 in reading and 101 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). St Andrew's Church School was not oversubscribed for September 2026: all 15 families who put it first were offered a place. Overall pupil absence was 5.1%. There are about 22.1 pupils per teacher. St Andrew's Church 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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