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East Huntspill Primary School
Primary · Mixed · Ages 2–11 · Academy
New Road, East Huntspill, Highbridge TA9 3PT · easthuntspillprimary.org.uk · 01278 782453
Overview
- Ofsted
- No overall grade
- 2019 framework · inspected Jan 2025
- Key stage 2, 2024/25
- 29%
- reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths. Somerset 57%, England 62%
- Demand for places
- 1.0
- first choices for each place · Reception, September 2026
- Pupils
- 95
- 39 over 56 places · 170%
- Local authority
- Somerset
- Nursery class
- Yes
- Free school meals
- 21.1%
- First language not English
- 0%
- School census 2025/26
- Trust
- Pathway Trust
The official school record (Department for Education)
Admissions
For Reception in September 2026, 9 families put the school first and 9 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 | 9 | 9 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 14 | 14 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 13 | 13 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 13 | 13 | 1 | 100% |
Results
In 2024/25, 29% of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of key stage 2, and 7% the higher standard. Across Somerset it was 57%, and across England 62%.
Expected standard reading, writing and maths
| 2024/25 | Trend | School | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reading, writing and maths | |||
| ▼29% | 62% | ||
| ●7% | 8% | ||
| Average scaled score | |||
| ▼99 | 106 | ||
| ▼101 | 105 | ||
| ▼99 | 105 | ||
Some years are for the predecessor school (URN 123685)
hidden: too few pupils to publish
Ofsted
Ofsted inspected East Huntspill Primary School on 7 January 2025 under its 2019 framework. Inspections from September 2024 give no overall grade.
- Overall
- No overall grade
- Inspected
- 7 Jan 2025
- Graded inspection
Safeguarding effectiveInspection reports
Graded areas
| Quality of education | Good |
|---|---|
| Behaviour and attitudes | Good |
| Personal development | Good |
| Leadership and management | Good |
| Early years | Good |
Previously: Concerns, ungraded inspection, Apr 2023
Earlier inspections
Including inspections of the predecessor school (URN 123685), which Ofsted links to this one.
September 2019 to November 2025
Apr 2023Ungraded inspectionConcerns
Safeguarding Effective
Before September 2019
Feb 2016Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Personal development, behaviour and welfare Good Leadership and management Good Early years Good Safeguarding Effective Inspection of the predecessor school (URN 123685)
Sept 2013Requires improvement
Outcomes for pupils Requires improvement Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Requires improvement Leadership and management Requires improvement Inspection of the predecessor school (URN 123685)
What parents said
78% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (23 replies, to 1 September 2025).
- Recommend
- 78%
- Replies
- 23
- 28% · 1 Sept 2025
based on the 74% who raised concerns
based on the 39% who had a child bullied