Merriott Primary School
General Information
- Address: Church Street, Merriott, TA16 5PT – View on map
- Phone: 0146072547
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Mrs Lois Bowery
- Age range: 5-11 years
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 14 families put it first for 14 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 11 · 2026 10
- Sixth form: No
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: Does not apply
- Nursery provision: No
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 9
- % eligible for free school meals: 7.1%
- Pupil mix: 0 in 10 (less mixed than the Somerset average)
- English as an additional language: 0% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 20.5% a year (Somerset 17.3%, typical in England 13.9%)
- Where they went: about 33% moved to another school, 67% 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: 3.0%
- Persistently absent pupils: 1.6%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
No dedicated Unit or Resourced Provision
- Pupils on SEN Support: 21.4%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 2.4%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Speech, language and communications needs: 12 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 8 pupils
- Moderate learning difficulty: 6 pupils
- Specific learning difficulty: 1 pupil
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Severe learning difficulty: 1 pupil
- Speech, language and communications needs: 1 pupil
- 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: 30% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 4% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: 29 percentage points below the Somerset average (59%)
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 48% · Writing 65% · Maths 35% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 48%
- Average test scores: reading 100, maths 99
- Based on: 23 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: 144th of 149 junior and primary schools in the area
- #142Stoke St Michael Primary School33%
- #143King Ina Church of England Academy32%
- #144Merriott Primary School30%
- =145Churchfield Church School29%
- =145East Huntspill Primary Academy29%
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69th of 152 primary schools in Somerset for Ofsted rating
- #67Meare Village Primary SchoolGood
- #68Mells Church First SchoolGood
- #69Merriott Primary SchoolGood
- #70Middlezoy Primary SchoolGood
- #71Milborne Port Primary SchoolGood
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £11,000 (2024-25)
21st of 185 primary schools in Somerset for spending per pupil
- #19Knights Templar Community Church School & Nursery£11,039
- #20Sampford Arundel Community Primary School£11,013
- #21Merriott Primary School£11,000
- #22St Mary's & St Peter's Church School£10,789
- #23Barwick and Stoford Community Primary School£10,779
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