State-fundedStudio schools · Bath and North East Somerset · BA3 3NQ
Secondary with sixth form · ages 14–19
Somerset Studio School is a state-funded school in Bath and North East Somerset, teaching pupils aged 14 to 19.
| 2023–24 | 2022–23 | 2021–22 | 3-year average | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Progress 8 | -0.3127th percentile | -0.6111th percentile | +0.3173rd percentile | -0.2034th percentile |
| Attainment 8 | 40.430th percentile | 38.422nd percentile | 51.666th percentile | 43.539th percentile |
Progress 8 for 2023–24 was -0.31 — below average, the 27th percentile nationally. On average pupils left with grades about 0.31 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 -0.83 to +0.20. That range includes zero, so on this year's figures the school cannot be told apart from an average one — treat small differences between schools with care. It has moved around a good deal across the years shown, from -0.61 to +0.31. The three-year average is the steadier number to judge it on.
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 | 32%30th percentile |
|---|---|
| EBacc average point score | 2.7713th 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 | -0.05 | -1.51 | +1.31 | -0.08 |
| Middle starters | -0.23 | -0.37 | -0.23 | -0.28 |
| Higher starters | — | — | -0.21 | -0.21 |
Not published — this school has no applications and offers figures in the Department for Education data.
| Overall absence | 17.1%1st percentile |
|---|---|
| Persistently absent pupils | 47.9%1st 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.
School remains Good
The outcome of an ungraded inspection, which checks whether a school's previous grade still holds rather than issuing a new one.
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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