St Martin's Garden Primary School

Academy sponsor led·Primary school Bath and North East Somerset·BA2 2UN
Composite score
16.2
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#14,613
National rank
#1589
In South West
#52
In Bath and North East Somerset
Top 99%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
25%
% achieving higher RWM
0%
Reading average scaled score
97.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
99.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Ofsted judgements

New framework · Last inspection: 13/01/2026 · Read full report ↗

Achievement
Needs attention
Leadership and governance
Needs attention
Curriculum and teaching
Expected standard
Attendance and behaviour
Needs attention
Personal development and wellbeing
Expected standard
Inclusion
Expected standard
Safeguarding standards
Met
Early years
Expected standard

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
100%
26 first choices, 27 places
First choices per place
0.96
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
38
any preference, for 27 places
First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.01
00.511.5
1 per place
0.8720220.8820230.8620240.9620250.962026

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

Every child who put St Martin's Garden Primary 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
3–11
Pupils on roll
204
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
47.5%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
18.1%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
20.6%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
26.0%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
7.5%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
23.4%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
14.2
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£10,265
Typical primary: £6,960

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

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About St Martin's Garden Primary School

St Martin's Garden Primary School is a primary school in Bath and North East Somerset, classified by the DfE as a sponsor-led academy. Around 204 pupils aged 3 to 11 attend the school. The school holds a 'Requires improvement' judgement from Ofsted (January 2026). In the most recent Key Stage 2 SATs, 25% of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths combined — well below the national average of 61%. That is down 21.0 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 97 in reading and 99 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). St Martin's Garden Primary School was not oversubscribed for September 2026: all 26 families who put it first were offered a place. Overall pupil absence was 7.5%. There are about 14.2 pupils per teacher. The school serves a community with above-average levels of disadvantage: about 48% 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 St Martin's Garden 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 above.

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