Bishops Hull Primary School
General Information
- Address: Bishops Hull Hill, Bishops Hull, Taunton, TA1 5EB – View on map
- Phone: 01823331624
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Mrs Kerry Exon
- Age range: 4-11 years
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 27 families put it first for 28 places – 10 for every 10 places. Every one of them was offered a place. No places went to families living outside the council area. Children putting it first, for every 10 places: 2025 9 · 2026 10
- Sixth form: No
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: Does not apply
- Nursery provision: No
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 35
- % eligible for free school meals: 17.1%
- Pupil mix: 4 in 10 (more mixed than the Somerset average)
- English as an additional language: 10% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 20.6% a year (Somerset 17.3%, typical in England 13.9%)
- Where they went: about 50% moved to another school, 50% left state schools altogether (retirement, other careers, independent schools, abroad)
- Data years: 2022/23 to 2024/25 (one year, DfE school workforce census)
Teachers who moved school or left state schools in the year after each November, as a share of all the school's teachers. Some turnover is healthy – retirements, promotions, moving house. This is a small staff, so one or two teachers leaving moves the figure a lot.
Behaviour
Awaiting Data
Across Somerset: suspensions by reason
- Suspensions for sexual misconduct: 2 (0.1 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.2)
- Permanent exclusions for sexual misconduct: 0
- Suspensions for bullying: 5 (0.1 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.2)
- Suspensions for abuse against sexual orientation or gender identity: 1 (0.0 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.0)
- Data year: 2024/25 (DfE suspensions and exclusions statistics)
These are figures for all state primary schools in Somerset, not this school's own – the government doesn't publish them school by school. A suspension can have up to three reasons. Most sexual harassment between pupils never leads to a suspension, so these figures show only part of the picture.
Attendance
- Overall absence: 5.0%
- Persistently absent pupils: 11.6%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
No dedicated Unit or Resourced Provision
- Pupils on SEN Support: 14.6%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 4.9%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Speech, language and communications needs: 15 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 7 pupils
- Specific learning difficulty: 3 pupils
- SEN support but no specialist assessment of type of need: 2 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 1 pupil
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Social, emotional and mental health: 4 pupils
- Speech, language and communications needs: 2 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 2 pupils
- Specific learning difficulty: 1 pupil
- Vision impairment: 1 pupil
These figures show the makeup of the school.
Educational Attainment
Good 2023 report
Year 6 SATs results
- Met the expected standard in reading, writing & maths: 76% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 18% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: 17 percentage points above the Somerset average (59%)
- Compared with schools with similar pupils: As expected (3-year average 66% against an expected 68%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 66%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 76% · Writing 82% · Maths 76% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 73%
- Average test scores: reading 105, maths 104
- Based on: 33 Year 6 pupils, 2024/25
View the School Context Comparator – how this school's SATs results compare with schools teaching similar pupils.
SATs results over time
Year 6 SATs: joint 20th of 149 junior and primary schools in the area
- =18High Ham Church of England Primary School77%
- =18Meare Village Primary School77%
- =20Bishops Hull Primary School76%
- =20Neroche Primary School76%
- =20Thurlbear Church of England Primary School76%
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15th of 152 primary schools in Somerset for Ofsted rating
- #13Birchfield Community Primary SchoolGood
- #14Bishop Henderson Church of England Primary School, TauntonGood
- #15Bishops Hull Primary SchoolGood
- #16Bishops Lydeard Church SchoolGood
- #17Blackbrook Primary SchoolGood
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £6,470 (2024-25)
127th of 185 primary schools in Somerset for spending per pupil
- #125Weare Academy First School£6,479
- #126Creech St Michael Church of England Primary School£6,479
- #127Bishops Hull Primary School£6,470
- #128St Michael's Church of England First School£6,466
- #129St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Bridgwater£6,431
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