Becket Primary School

Academy converter·Primary school Weston-super-Mare, North Somerset·BS22 6DH
Composite score
36.4
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National rank
#1259
In South West
#49
In North Somerset
Top 81%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
56%
% achieving higher RWM
0%
Reading average scaled score
103.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
102.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Ofsted judgements

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Overall effectiveness
Requires improvement
Quality of education
Requires improvement
Behaviour and attitudes
Requires improvement
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%
18 first choices, 18 places
First choices per place
1.00
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
29
any preference, for 18 places
First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.06
00.511.5
1 per place
0.9320220.9520231.0020240.9420251.002026

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

Every child who put Becket 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
2–11
Pupils on roll
186
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
36.4%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
29.0%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
16.1%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
1.6%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
6.2%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
15.1%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
17.2
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£6,953
Typical primary: £6,960

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

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About Becket Primary School

Becket Primary School is a primary school in Weston-super-Mare, North Somerset, classified by the DfE as a converter academy. Around 186 pupils aged 2 to 11 attend the school. The school holds a 'Requires improvement' judgement from Ofsted. 56% of its pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of Key Stage 2, broadly in line with the national average (national figure: 61%). The proportion reaching the expected standard has risen by 8.0 percentage points year on 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 103 in reading and 102 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). Getting a place is straightforward: for the September 2026 intake every family who made Becket Primary School their first choice was offered one of its 18 Reception places. Overall pupil absence was 6.2%. There are about 17.2 pupils per teacher. If you are considering Becket 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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