Ashcott Primary School
Ofsted: Standards maintainedCommunity school · Primary
Bridgwater · TA7 9PP · Somerset
Ages 4–11
- KS276%
- Absence5.0%
- FSM15.4%
- Demand1.00
2.8 miles away
OpenPrimaryOfsted: GoodURN 123683
Catcott Primary School
Community school · Bridgwater · TA7 9HD
Ages 4–11 · 127 pupils · Somerset
Ofsted
Good
KS2 expected (RWM)
55%
Overall absence
6.9%
Admissions demand
1.00 · Balanced demand
Ofsted
Latest published inspection outcomes — not a ranking.
Headline
Good
Inspection date
2024-03-13
- Overall effectiveness
- Good
- Quality of education
- Good
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Good
- Personal development
- Good
- Leadership and management
- Good
- Safeguarding effective
- Yes
Performance
Official school-level results. Figures are not rankings — suppressed values are omitted.
Key stage 2 (2023/24)
Expected standard (RWM)55%
Higher standard (RWM)5%
- Avg scaled score — reading
- 105.0
- Avg scaled score — maths
- 104.0
- Avg scaled score — GPS
- 102.0
Absence
Academic year 2023/24. Persistent absence means 10%+ of sessions missed. Lower figures are better.
Overall absence6.9%
Persistent absence (10%+)14.6%
Unauthorised1.3%
- Authorised absence
- 5.5%
- Severe absence (50%+)
- 0.8%
- Enrolments in measure
- 130
Absence trend
2021/22
2022/23
2023/24
- Overall
- Persistent (10%+)
Admissions demand
Coordinated admissions for primary entry (2024/25 cycle, national offer day). Demand ratio compares families who listed this school 1st with total offers made — not a catchment or distance guarantee.
Demand ratio
1.00 · Balanced demand
1st preferences
8
Places offered
8
1st-preference offers
8
- Total preferences (any rank)
- 20
- Preferred offers (top 3)
- 8
- Applications from outside LA
- 0
- Offers to outside-LA applicants
- 0
Source: DfE primary and secondary school applications and offers. Figures reflect offers on national offer day; late applications, appeals and waiting lists are not included.
Size & intake
From the GIAS school census (15 Jan 2026).
Capacity fill64%
127 pupils · 200 places
- Pupils on roll
- 127
- Boys / girls
- 68 / 59
- School capacity
- 200
- Capacity fill
- 127 / 200 (64%)
- Free school meals
- 11.8%
- FSM pupils
- 15
- Gender
- Mixed
- School type
- Community school
Age range
Ages 4–11
05111619
Provision
Official GIAS characteristics
0 / 6
- Nursery
- Sixth form
- Boarding
- Special school
- Independent
- Academy
School characteristics
- Special classes
- No Special Classes
- Governance
- Community school
- Headteacher
- Miss Hannah Lintern
Location
- Address
- Manor Road, Catcott
- Postcode
- TA7 9HD
- Town
- Bridgwater
- County
- Somerset
- Local authority
- Somerset
- District
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills
- Urban/rural
- Smaller rural: Further from a major town or city
Local context
How this school sits among open establishments in its area, using official GIAS records. These are counts, not rankings.
Mixed community school (primary), Ages 4–11, in Bridgwater, Somerset, 127 pupils on roll. Free school meals: 11.8%.
Nearby primary schools
Open schools within about 3 miles, prioritising the same phase where possible. Distances are approximate from GIAS coordinates.
Other independent special school
TA7 9NJ · Somerset
Ages 5–19
- Att818.1
- EM5+22%
1.6 miles away
Other independent special school
TA7 9QS · Somerset
Ages 7–18
- Att816.6
- EM5+0%
2.8 miles away
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Contact
- Headteacher
- Miss Hannah Lintern
- Telephone
- 01278722527