St Philip's CofE Primary School

Academy converter·Primary school Bath and North East Somerset·BA2 2BN
Composite score
68.2
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#2,030
National rank
#166
In South West
#10
In Bath and North East Somerset
Top 14%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
78%
% achieving higher RWM
15%
Reading average scaled score
110.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
107.0
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%
23 first choices, 25 places
First choices per place
0.92
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
71
any preference, for 25 places
First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.03
00.511.5
1 per place
1.0520220.9020230.9520240.9020250.922026

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

Every child who put St Philip's CofE 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
4–11
Pupils on roll
277
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
Church of England

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
15.2%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
19.5%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
15.9%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
3.2%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
4.8%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
10.2%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
26.1
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£5,729
Typical primary: £6,960

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

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School overview

St Philip's CofE Primary School is a primary school serving Bath and North East Somerset, classified by the DfE as a converter academy with a Church of England religious character. It has 277 pupils aged 4 to 11 on roll. In the most recent Key Stage 2 SATs, 78% of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths combined — well above the national average of 61%. That marks an improvement of 17.0 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 among the top 14% of primary schools in England.

Pupils achieved an average scaled score of 110 in reading and 107 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). 15% reached the higher standard across all three subjects (around 8% do so nationally). St Philip's CofE Primary School was not oversubscribed for September 2026: all 23 families who put it first were offered a place. Overall pupil absence was 4.8%. There are about 26.1 pupils per teacher. St Philip's CofE Primary 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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