Wellsprings Primary School
General Information
- Address: Crowcombe Road, Taunton, TA2 7NF – View on map
- Phone: 01823275556
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Mr Mark Lunn
- Age range: 3-11 years
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 28 families put it first for 31 places – 9 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 10 · 2024 8 · 2025 10 · 2026 9
- Sixth form: No
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: Does not apply
- Nursery provision: Yes
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 83
- % eligible for free school meals: 31.6%
- Pupil mix: 4 in 10 (more mixed than the Somerset average)
- English as an additional language: 13% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 4.7% a year (Somerset 17.3%, typical in England 13.9%) Low turnover
- Where they went: about 39% moved to another school, 61% 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. "Low turnover" means it's among the quarter of similar schools in England where teachers are most likely to stay.
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: 5.7%
- Persistently absent pupils: 15.2%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
No dedicated Unit or Resourced Provision
- Pupils on SEN Support: 15.4%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 4.7%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Speech, language and communications needs: 19 pupils
- Moderate learning difficulty: 9 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 8 pupils
- Specific learning difficulty: 3 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 2 pupils
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 7 pupils
- Hearing impairment: 1 pupil
- Speech, language and communications needs: 1 pupil
- Social, emotional and mental health: 1 pupil
- Profound and multiple learning difficulty: 1 pupil
These figures show the makeup of the school.
Educational Attainment
Good 2019 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: Below (3-year average 51% against an expected 60%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 51%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 52% · Writing 67% · Maths 77% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 50%
- Average test scores: reading 102, maths 105
- Based on: 48 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
- =127Otterhampton Primary School44%
- =127Priorswood Primary School44%
- =127Wellsprings Primary School44%
- =127Wembdon St George's Church School44%
- =132Haselbury Plucknett Church of England Primary School43%
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124th of 152 primary schools in Somerset for Ofsted rating
- #122Weare Academy First SchoolGood
- #123Wedmore First School AcademyGood
- #124Wellsprings Primary SchoolGood
- #125West Buckland Primary SchoolGood
- #126West Coker CofE VC Primary SchoolGood
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £7,138 (2024-25)
94th of 185 primary schools in Somerset for spending per pupil
- #92Ash Church of England Primary School£7,157
- #93Chilthorne Domer Church School£7,151
- #94Wellsprings Primary School£7,138
- #95Keinton Mandeville Primary School£7,056
- #96North Cadbury Church of England Primary School£7,051
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