Stanchester Academy
Ofsted: Requires improvement
Score
D50
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- Location
- Stoke-sub-Hamdon, TA14 6UG
- Distance
- 11.3km away
Huish Episcopi Academy
Wincanton Road, Langport, TA10 9SS
Local ranking9th of 32 secondary schools in Somerset
Ofsted: ExpectedUpdated— score data refreshed 15 October 2026
Secondary
Phase
1570
Capacity
11-18
Age range
Mixed
Gender
Latest data: 2026 GCSEs · 2025 A-levels · Ofsted inspection 6 May 2026. Figures last updated .
School history and status
Continues from Huish Episcopi Academy (URN 136294) since 1 June 2023. Results, demographics and trends from before then are that school's, shown here so the record is unbroken.
Safeguarding standards Met
- Achievement
- Expected standard
- Curriculum & teaching
- Expected standard
- Attendance & behaviour
- Expected standard
- Personal development & wellbeing
- Strong standard
- Leadership & governance
- Strong standard
- Inclusion
- Expected standard
- Post-16 provision
- Expected standard
Scale: Exceptional · Strong · Expected · Needs attention · Urgent improvement
Year:
GCSE Results
2025-26- Average Attainment 8
- 51.5 nat46.2
- Grade 5+ Eng & Maths
- 58.1% nat46.3%
- Grade 4+ Eng & Maths
- 76.0% nat64.8%
- Cohort Size
- 229
Destinations
After GCSE 2022-23
- Sustained education/employment
- 96.0%
- Continued in education
- 87.0%
- Apprenticeships
- 6.0%
- Employment
- 3.0%
- Not sustained
- 3.0%
After A-Levels 2022-23
- Sustained education/employment
- 85.0%
- Higher education
- 51.0%
- Apprenticeships
- 1.0%
- Employment
- 31.0%
- Not sustained
- 13.0%
A-Level Results
2024-25*Data not available for 2025-26 — showing latest available results
C
Avg A-Level Grade
30.3
Avg Points/Entry
nat 35.0
30.8
Best 3 A-Levels
nat 35.8
65
A-Level Students
- AAB+ with Facilitating
- 16.7% nat17.5%
- Applied General Avg Points
- 24.0
- 16-18 Cohort
- 129
Pupil Demographics
2024-25- Total Pupils
- 1250
- Boys
- 582 (49%)
- Girls
- 610 (51%)
- Capacity
- 1570 (76% full)
- SEND
- 12.1%
- FSM Eligible
- 19.5%
- EAL
- 4.4%
- SEN with EHC Plan
- 0.8%
- SEN Support
- 11.3%
- Pupil:Teacher Ratio
- 20.9:1
- Teachers (FTE)
- 59.8
- Budget per Pupil
- £7,978/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
- 7.5% nat6.2%
- Persistent Absence
- 21.2% nat15.8%
Persistent absence: pupils missing 10%+ of sessions.
School Information
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- Religious Character
- Does not apply
- Nursery
- No Nursery Classes
- Sixth Form
- Has a sixth form
- Boarders
- No boarders
Pupil Ethnicity
Loading chart
- White British: 89.6%
- White Other: 5.6%
- Mixed Other: 0.9%
- Mixed White & Asian: 0.6%
- Asian Indian: 0.5%
- Gypsy/Roma: 0.4%
- Mixed White & Black Caribbean: 0.4%
- Mixed White & Black African: 0.4%
89.6%
White British
5.6%
White Other
0.9%
Mixed Other
Historical Trends
GCSE Performance
Pupil Demographics
Attendance & Absence
Contact & Location
Administrative
- URN
- 150038
- UKPRN
- 10093081
- Establishment No.
- 4010
- Trust
- UNITED LEARNING TRUST
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