United Kingdom / Regions / Somerset
Somerset
South West, England · population ~564k · 268 state-funded schools
Median full-time pay
ONS ASHE residence basis · 2025
Median house price
ONS HPSSA-9 · Year ending Sep 2025
Median monthly rent
ONS PIPR · 2026-03
Council tax (Band D)
MHCLG / Welsh Gov · 2026-27
Crime per 1,000
ONS PFA · Year ending Dec 2025
IMD score
MHCLG IoD · 2019 (predecessor avg)
Schools Good+ (legacy)
Legacy 1-4 grades only · Ofsted Feb 2026 snapshot
Schools Outstanding
Of 213 legacy-graded schools · Ofsted Feb 2026 snapshot
State-funded schools in Somerset
268 schools listed by DfE GIAS, with current judgements from the Ofsted Feb 2026 Management Information snapshot. Among schools with a current legacy Ofsted 1-4 grade (213 of 268 here), 81.3% of pupils attend schools rated Good or Outstanding — combining full OEIF graded inspections and ungraded check-ins that confirmed the school remains at its last grade. A further 2 schools (0.7% of the LA) have been re-inspected under Ofsted's new post-Sept-2024 report-card framework; those judgements appear separately on each school's row below.
The Last inspection column shows the most recent activity per school — graded inspection, check-in, or new-framework report card. Ofsted retired the single 1-4 grade in September 2024; new inspections produce multi-axis "report card" judgements (Leadership, Achievement, Curriculum, Behaviour, Personal development, Inclusion, Safeguarding) that aren't directly comparable to the legacy 1-4. Where a school has both an older 1-4 grade and a fresh report card, the 1-4 is shown for continuity but the report-card sub-judgments below it are the current finding. The "·" mark next to a grade indicates the value came from an ungraded check confirming the school's last full grade still applies.
Showing 20 of 268 schools.
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Bridgwater College Academy | Secondary | 1,576 | Requires Improvement | 10/05/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
The Blue School | Secondary | 1,357 | Good· | 18/05/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Holyrood Academy | Secondary | 1,321 | Good | 07/02/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
The King Alfred School an Academy | Secondary | 1,294 | Good | 22/11/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
Frome Community College | Secondary | 1,284 | Good· | 05/10/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Monkton Wood Academy | Secondary | 1,266 | Inadequate | 13/03/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Huish Episcopi Academy | Secondary | 1,250 | Inadequate | 02/11/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
The Castle School | Secondary | 1,202 | Outstanding | 03/10/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Bishop Fox's School | Secondary | 1,109 | Good· | 30/03/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Haygrove School | Secondary | 1,060 | Good | 16/04/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
The Kings of Wessex Academy | Secondary | 1,050 | Not graded | 06/11/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Robert Blake School | Secondary | 1,042 | Requires Improvement | 10/10/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Westfield Academy | Secondary | 1,025 | Good· | 05/10/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Crispin School Academy | Secondary | 1,022 | Good· | 24/05/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Pyrland School | Secondary | 996 | Not graded | 28/01/2025 | Ofsted |
Preston School Academy | Secondary | 983 | Good | 10/01/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Chilton Trinity School | Secondary | 975 | Not graded | 24/09/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Kingsmead Academy | Secondary | 879 | Not graded | 03/12/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Court Fields School | Secondary | 826 | Good | 22/03/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Stanchester Academy | Secondary | 812 | Not graded | 19/11/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
How we sourced this
Indicators: Pay (ONS ASHE residence), house price (ONS HPSSA-9 median for England + Wales, UK HPI mean for Scotland), rent (ONS PIPR newly-signed lets for E+W, Scot Gov 2-bed advertised median for Scotland), council tax (MHCLG England + Welsh Gov Wales), crime (ONS PFA, E+W only), IMD (MHCLG IoD 2019, England only), school quality (Ofsted % of pupils in schools currently rated under the legacy 1-4 framework as Good or Outstanding, combining full OEIF grades with ungraded check-ins — England only. Schools re-inspected under Ofsted's new post-Sept-2024 report-card framework are excludedfrom this denominator and shown separately on each school's row).
Schools: joined from DfE GIAS edubasealldata snapshot (2026-05-13, the canonical UK school registry) with Ofsted's Management Information snapshot (Feb 2026, current grades and pupil counts). Coordinates converted from OSGB36 (British National Grid) to WGS84 using the standard Helmert 7-parameter transformation.
Editorial position: we surface the uncomfortable facts (knife crime per 1,000, IMD deprivation, Band D bills) alongside the affordability story. No estate-agent gloss. Where methodologies differ across UK nations (rents, deprivation, council tax) we disclose the difference rather than silently merging.
Some indicators show "—" for Scotland / Wales / Northern Ireland because each nation publishes equivalents on a different methodology that explicitly cannot be cross-compared per official guidance.