State-fundedAcademy converter · Somerset · TA24 6AY
Secondary with sixth form · ages 13–19
West Somerset College is a state-funded school in Somerset, teaching pupils aged 13 to 19.
| 2023–24 | 2022–23 | 2021–22 | 3-year average | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Progress 8 | -0.5016th percentile | -0.4916th percentile | -0.6310th percentile | -0.5413th percentile |
| Attainment 8 | 39.727th percentile | 37.921st percentile | 42.026th percentile | 39.924th percentile |
Progress 8 for 2023–24 was -0.50 — below average, the 16th percentile nationally. On average pupils left with grades about 0.50 of a grade per subject lower than pupils across England who had the same results at the end of primary school.
The 95% confidence interval for 2023–24 runs -0.70 to -0.29. That sits entirely below zero, so the below-average result is very unlikely to be chance. It has been broadly steady across the years shown.
Attainment 8 is the average grade pupils leave with across eight GCSEs; it tells you where they ended up, and tracks the intake a school admits as much as anything the school does. Progress 8 compares those grades with pupils nationally who had the same results at the end of primary school, so it is the better measure of what a school added.
| Grade 5+ in English & Maths | 34%34th percentile |
|---|---|
| EBacc average point score | 3.4028th percentile |
A school can post a respectable overall score while coasting one group and carrying the average on another. The row that matters to you is the one your own child sits in.
| 2023–24 | 2022–23 | 2021–22 | 3-year average | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lower starters | -0.40 | -0.57 | -0.64 | -0.54 |
| Middle starters | -0.53 | -0.49 | -0.61 | -0.54 |
| Higher starters | -0.56 | -0.28 | -0.67 | -0.50 |
Not published — this school has no applications and offers figures in the Department for Education data.
| Overall absence | 14.6%3rd percentile |
|---|---|
| Persistently absent pupils | 44.9%2nd percentile |
Absence is worth reading next to results: it is a plainer signal of whether pupils are turning up and engaged than any grade average. Across the schools in this dataset the overall absence rate averages 9.0%, so this school is above the norm.
Achievement: Needs attention · Behaviour: Needs attention · Leadership: Needs attention
Inspected under Ofsted's 2025 report cards, which replaced the single overall grade with a grade per area on a five-point scale from Exceptional to Urgent improvement.
The GCSE results here are for 2023–24 and earlier, which describes pupils who have already left. Nothing on this page covers where pupils go next, A-level or sixth-form results, pastoral care, how far a school pushes music, sport or drama, or how it feels to walk around — and those are the things parents most often say settled it. Visit at an open evening before you rank a school.
Nor is any of it a prediction of a place. Whether your child is offered one depends on the school's admission criteria and, most often, on how far you live from the gate.
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