Academy sponsor led · Primary
Bridgwater · TA7 8EA · Somerset
Ages 2–11
Status: Open
1.5 miles away
OpenPrimaryURN 144436
Puriton Primary School
Academy converter · Bridgwater · TA7 8BT
Phase
Primary
Age range
Ages 4–11
Pupils
200
Local authority
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 Bridgwater, Somerset, 200 pupils on roll. Notable characteristics: academy. Free school meals: 11.5%.
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Overview
- School type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Age range
- 4–11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Status
- Open
- URN
- 144436
Location
- Address
- Rowlands Rise, Puriton
- Postcode
- TA7 8BT
- Town
- Bridgwater
- County
- Somerset
- Local authority
- Somerset
- District
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Bridgwater
- Urban/rural
- Larger rural: 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
- 200
- Boys / girls
- 93 / 107
- School capacity
- 210
- Capacity fill
- 200 / 210 (95%)
- Free school meals
- 11.5%
- FSM pupils
- 23
- 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: FUTURA LEARNING PARTNERSHIP
- Academy trust
- FUTURA LEARNING PARTNERSHIP
- Sponsor
- Futura Learning Partnership
Contact
- Headteacher
- Miss Katie Williams
- Telephone
- 01278683630
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
Good
Inspection date
2023-05-23
- 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 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)
- 66%
- Higher standard (RWM)
- 3%
- Avg scaled score — reading
- 104.0
- Avg scaled score — maths
- 103.0
- Avg scaled score — GPS
- 105.0
Absence
Pupil absence rates from DfE pupil absence in schools in England. Persistent absence means 10% or more of sessions missed; severe absence means 50% or more. Lower figures are better.
Academic year 2023/24
Overall absence
5.1%
Persistent absence
8.3%
Unauthorised
0.8%
- Authorised absence
- 4.3%
- Severe absence (50%+)
- 1.1%
- Enrolments in measure
- 180
Recent years
- 2022/23
- Overall 5.2% · Persistent 10.4%
- 2021/22
- Overall 6.9% · Persistent 19.2%