Priorswood Primary School
General Information
- Address: Wedlands, Taunton, TA2 7AD – View on map
- Phone: 01823284897
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Mr Stephen Morton
- Age range: 2-11 years
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 23 families put it first for 23 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: 2023 9 · 2024 5 · 2025 9 · 2026 10
- Sixth form: No
- Intake: Mixed
- Nursery provision: Yes
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 64
- % eligible for free school meals: 30.8%
- Pupil mix: 7 in 10 (more mixed than the Somerset average)
- English as an additional language: 31% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 19.6% a year (Somerset 17.3%, typical in England 13.9%)
- Where they went: about 19% moved to another school, 81% 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: 5.3%
- Persistently absent pupils: 12.0%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
No dedicated Unit or Resourced Provision
- Pupils on SEN Support: 21.3%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 2.8%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Speech, language and communications needs: 17 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 12 pupils
- Other difficulty or disability: 6 pupils
- SEN support but no specialist assessment of type of need: 3 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 3 pupils
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Speech, language and communications needs: 3 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 1 pupil
- Vision impairment: 1 pupil
- Other difficulty or disability: 1 pupil
These figures show the makeup of the school.
Educational Attainment
Good 2022 report
Year 6 SATs results
- Met the expected standard in reading, writing & maths: 44% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 4% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: 15 percentage points below the Somerset average (59%)
- Compared with schools with similar pupils: Well below (3-year average 31% against an expected 54%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 31%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 60% · Writing 60% · Maths 48% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 52%
- Average test scores: reading 100, maths 99
- 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 127th of 149 junior and primary schools in the area
- =127Cotford St Luke Primary School44%
- =127Otterhampton Primary School44%
- =127Priorswood Primary School44%
- =127Wellsprings Primary School44%
- =127Wembdon St George's Church School44%
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89th of 152 primary schools in Somerset for Ofsted rating
- #87Pawlett Primary School AcademyGood
- #88Priddy Primary SchoolGood
- #89Priorswood Primary SchoolGood
- #90Puriton Primary SchoolGood
- #91Rockwell Green Church of England Primary SchoolGood
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £6,076 (2024-25)
155th of 185 primary schools in Somerset for spending per pupil
- #153Ruishton Church of England School£6,079
- #154St James Church School£6,078
- #155Priorswood Primary School£6,076
- #156Wedmore First School Academy£6,006
- #157St Joseph's Catholic Primary and Nursery School£5,954
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