Stanchester Academy
Ofsted: Requires improvement
Score
D50
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- Location
- Stoke-sub-Hamdon, TA14 6UG
- Distance
- 8.3km away
Wadham School
Yeovil Road, Crewkerne, TA18 7NT
Local ranking23rd of 32 secondary schools in Somerset
Ofsted: GoodUpdated— score data refreshed 15 October 2026
Secondary
Phase
788
Capacity
11-16
Age range
Mixed
Gender
Latest data: 2026 GCSEs · 2024 A-levels · Ofsted inspection 21 January 2025. Figures last updated .
Ofsted Inspection
Inspected 21 January 2025 — from September 2024 Ofsted no longer gave an overall grade, but each area below was judged in full
Safeguarding standards Met
- Quality of education
- Requires improvement
- Behaviour & attitudes
- Good
- Personal development
- Good
- Leadership & management
- Good
- Sixth form provision
- Requires improvement
Scale: Outstanding · Good · Requires improvement · Inadequate
Year:
GCSE Results
2025-26- Average Attainment 8
- 41.7 nat46.2
- Grade 5+ Eng & Maths
- 36.5% nat46.3%
- Grade 4+ Eng & Maths
- 62.3% nat64.8%
- Cohort Size
- 159
Destinations
After GCSE 2024-25
- Sustained education/employment
- 87.0%
- Continued in education
- 66.0%
- Apprenticeships
- 10.0%
- Employment
- 11.0%
- Not sustained
- 10.0%
After A-Levels 2024-25
- Sustained education/employment
- 89.0%
- Higher education
- 22.0%
- Apprenticeships
- 11.0%
- Employment
- 44.0%
- Not sustained
- 11.0%
A-Level Results
2023-24*Data not available for 2025-26 — showing latest available results
C-
Avg A-Level Grade
26.3
Avg Points/Entry
nat 34.4
28.6
Best 3 A-Levels
nat 35.1
13
A-Level Students
- AAB+ with Facilitating
- 0.0% nat17.1%
- Applied General Avg Points
- 35.0
- 16-18 Cohort
- 26
Pupil Demographics
2024-25- Total Pupils
- 769
- Boys
- 406 (53%)
- Girls
- 357 (47%)
- Capacity
- 788 (97% full)
- SEND
- 16.5%
- FSM Eligible
- 19.2%
- EAL
- 3.3%
- SEN with EHC Plan
- 3.8%
- SEN Support
- 12.7%
- Pupil:Teacher Ratio
- 16.0:1
- Teachers (FTE)
- 48.1
- Budget per Pupil
- £8,825/yr
*Financial data not available for 2025-26 — showing 2024-25
Attendance & Absence
2024-25*Data not available for 2025-26 — showing latest available results
- Overall Absence Rate
- 9.7% nat6.2%
- Persistent Absence
- 25.9% nat15.8%
Persistent absence: pupils missing 10%+ of sessions.
School Information
- Type
- Voluntary controlled school
- Phase
- Secondary
- Religious Character
- Church of England
- Nursery
- No Nursery Classes
- Sixth Form
- Does not have a sixth form
- Boarders
- No boarders
- Admissions
- Non-selective
Pupil Ethnicity
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- White British: 92.7%
- White Other: 2.6%
- Other: 1.0%
- Mixed White & Asian: 0.9%
- Mixed Other: 0.7%
- Gypsy/Roma: 0.4%
- Mixed White & Black Caribbean: 0.4%
- Mixed White & Black African: 0.4%
92.7%
White British
2.6%
White Other
1.0%
Other
Historical Trends
GCSE Performance
Pupil Demographics
Attendance & Absence
Contact & Location
Yeovil Road
Crewkerne, South West
Administrative
- URN
- 123893
- UKPRN
- 10007285
- Establishment No.
- 4508
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