Academy converter · Primary
Weston-super-Mare · BS23 3AF · North Somerset
Ages 4–11
Status: Open
0.5 miles away
OpenPrimaryURN 144924
Ashcombe Primary School
Academy converter · Weston-super-Mare · BS23 3JW
Phase
Primary
Age range
Ages 4–11
Pupils
627
Local authority
North Somerset
Age range
Ages 4–11
05111619
Provision snapshot
Based on official GIAS characteristics
1 / 6
- NurseryNo Nursery Classes
- Sixth formDoes not have a sixth form
- BoardingNo boarders
- Special school
- Independent
- Academy
Local context
How this school sits among open establishments in its area, using official GIAS records. These are counts, not rankings.
Mixed academy converter (primary), Ages 4–11, in Weston-super-Mare, North Somerset, 627 pupils on roll. Notable characteristics: academy. Free school meals: 22.5%.
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Overview
- School type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Age range
- 4–11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Status
- Open
- URN
- 144924
Location
- Address
- Earlham Grove
- Postcode
- BS23 3JW
- Town
- Weston-super-Mare
- County
- Somerset
- Local authority
- North Somerset
- District
- North Somerset
- Constituency
- Weston-Super-Mare
- Urban/rural
- Urban: Nearer to a major town or city
Size & intake
Pupil numbers and free school meals come from the GIAS school census fields. Capacity fill is calculated when both pupils and capacity are published. Census date: 15 Jan 2026.
- Pupils on roll
- 627
- Boys / girls
- 318 / 309
- School capacity
- 630
- Capacity fill
- 627 / 630 (100%)
- Free school meals
- 22.5%
- FSM pupils
- 141
- Gender
- Mixed
School characteristics
- Nursery provision
- No Nursery Classes
- Sixth form
- Does not have a sixth form
- Boarding
- No boarders
- Special classes
- No Special Classes
- Governance
- Academy trust: KALEIDOSCOPE MULTI ACADEMY TRUST
- Academy trust
- KALEIDOSCOPE MULTI ACADEMY TRUST
Contact
- Headteacher
- Mr Chris Penny
- Telephone
- 01934620141
Official links
Ofsted
Latest inspection outcomes from Ofsted monthly management information. Report-card grades use the current framework where published; older OEIF grades are shown when that is the latest graded inspection.
Headline
Needs attention
Inspection date
2026-03-24
- Achievement
- Needs attention
- Curriculum and teaching
- Needs attention
- Inclusion
- Expected standard
- Attendance and behaviour
- Expected standard
- Personal development and wellbeing
- Expected standard
- Leadership and governance
- Needs attention
- Safeguarding standards
- Met
Performance
Official school-level results from DfE school and college performance tables. Figures are not rankings — suppressed or unavailable values are omitted.
Key stage 2 (2023/24)
- Expected standard (RWM)
- 50%
- Higher standard (RWM)
- 4%
- Avg scaled score — reading
- 102.0
- Avg scaled score — maths
- 103.0
- Avg scaled score — GPS
- 103.0