Kingsmoor Primary School
General Information
- Address: Bawdrip, Bridgwater, TA7 8PY – View on map
- Phone: 01278683371
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Mrs Joanne Warren
- Age range: 4-11 years
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 25 families put it first for 24 places – 10 for every 10 places. 88% of them were offered a place. No places went to families living outside the council area. Children putting it first, for every 10 places: 2023 13 · 2024 10 · 2025 10 · 2026 10
- Sixth form: No
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: Does not apply
- Nursery provision: No
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 30
- % eligible for free school meals: 16.9%
- Pupil mix: 1 in 10 (less mixed than the Somerset average)
- English as an additional language: 3% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 6.2% a year (Somerset 17.3%, typical in England 13.9%)
- Where they went: about 63% moved to another school, 37% left state schools altogether (retirement, other careers, independent schools, abroad)
- Data years: 2022/23 to 2024/25 (average of 3 years, 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: 4.8%
- Persistently absent pupils: 9.7%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
No dedicated Unit or Resourced Provision
- Pupils on SEN Support: 9.6%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 1.7%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Social, emotional and mental health: 5 pupils
- Specific learning difficulty: 4 pupils
- Moderate learning difficulty: 4 pupils
- Speech, language and communications needs: 2 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 2 pupils
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 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: 72% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 4% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: 13 percentage points above the Somerset average (59%)
- Compared with schools with similar pupils: Above (3-year average 77% against an expected 67%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 77%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 80% · Writing 76% · Maths 88% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 92%
- Average test scores: reading 107, maths 107
- Based on: 25 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 31st of 149 junior and primary schools in the area
- =29Somerset Bridge Primary School73%
- =29St Gildas Catholic Primary School73%
- =31Kingsmoor Primary School72%
- =31St Mary's Voluntary Controlled Church of England Primary School72%
- =31St Vigor & St John Church School72%
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58th of 152 primary schools in Somerset for Ofsted rating
- #56Keinton Mandeville Primary SchoolGood
- #57Kingsbury Episcopi Primary SchoolGood
- #58Kingsmoor Primary SchoolGood
- #59Langford Budville Church of England Primary SchoolGood
- #60Leigh On Mendip SchoolGood
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £6,828 (2024-25)
106th of 185 primary schools in Somerset for spending per pupil
- #104St Joseph and St Teresa Catholic Primary School£6,865
- #105Abbas and Templecombe Church School£6,856
- #106Kingsmoor Primary School£6,828
- #107Beckington Church First School£6,813
- #108Nerrols Primary School and Nursery£6,812
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