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Mark First and Pre-School CE Academy
Primary · Mixed · Ages 2–9 · Academy
The Causeway, Mark, Highbridge TA9 4QA · markfirstschool.co.uk · 01278 641262
Overview
- Ofsted
- No overall grade
- 2019 framework · inspected Jan 2025
- Demand for places
- 1.0
- first choices for each place · Reception, September 2026
- Pupils
- 158
- 8 over 150 places · 105%
- Local authority
- Somerset
- Nursery class
- Yes
- Free school meals
- 9.1%
- First language not English
- 0%
- School census 2025/26
The official school record (Department for Education)
Admissions
For Reception in September 2026, 24 families put the school first and 24 places were offered; 100% of those families were offered a place there. Admission depends on the school’s own rules.
First choices against places
| Reception | Places | First choices | Per place | % offered |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2026Sept 2026 | 24 | 24 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 13 | 13 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 30 | 31 | 1▲ | 97% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 26 | 26 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 25 | 23 | 0.9 | 100% |
Ofsted
Ofsted inspected Mark First and Pre-School CE Academy on 21 January 2025 under its 2019 framework. Inspections from September 2024 give no overall grade.
- Overall
- No overall grade
- Inspected
- 21 Jan 2025
- Graded inspection
Safeguarding effectiveInspection reports
Graded areas
| Quality of education | Requires improvement |
|---|---|
| Behaviour and attitudes | Good |
| Personal development | Good |
| Leadership and management | Requires improvement |
| Early years | Requires improvement |
Previously: Remains Good, ungraded inspection, Oct 2019
Earlier inspections
September 2019 to November 2025
Oct 2019Ungraded inspectionRemains Good
Safeguarding Effective
Before September 2019
Oct 2012Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Leadership and management Good Jun 2011Requires improvement
Outcomes for pupils Requires improvement Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Leadership and management Requires improvement Early years Good
What parents said
93% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (56 replies, to 1 September 2025).
- Recommend
- 93%
- Replies
- 56
- 35% · 1 Sept 2025
based on the 66% who raised concerns
based on the 23% who had a child bullied