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Blagdon Primary School

PrimaryAges 4–11Academy

Blagdon, BS40 7RW · North Somerset local authority

Blagdon’s School Grade B better than 57% of towns in England

Its letter
72%
of England’s primaries have lower KS2 results
Getting in
9/9
first choices offered a place, 2026 (England: 93%)
How full
91 pupils
76% of its 119 places
Free school meals
13%
13 in 100 pupils eligible · outlined square = England’s schools (25)
The gist

What stands out about Blagdon Primary School

  • Its own letter, B+: Key Stage 2 results better than 72% of England’s primary schools
  • 70% meet the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 8 points above England’s schools
  • 13% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (fewer than England’s 25%)
  • Ofsted: Good, October 2023 (shown, not graded)
  • Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026 (9 of 9)
  • Homes in its postcode sector (BS40 7) sold for a median £581,000; Blagdon’s is £495,000

Results

DfE · Key Stage 2

Reading, writing and maths 70%

Met the expected standard, DfE’s 3-year average 2023–2025 · higher than 72% of England’s 14,979 graded primaries · North Somerset avg 62%

0%20%40%60%80%100%England avg 61.6%Blagdon Primary 70%

Each subject, 2025

Met the expected standard; the mark is England’s schools · average scaled score: reading 105, maths 106 (100 = the expected standard)

Reading67%
England’s schools 77%
Writing (teacher assessed)78%
England’s schools 73%
Maths72%
England’s schools 75%
Grammar, punctuation and spelling72%
England’s schools 74%
Reached the higher standard in all three17%
England’s schools 8% · North Somerset 7% · 2025

England’s figures are of its graded mainstream state schools, each school counted once; grammar schools are included, which is why the right-hand tail is long. Small cohorts are suppressed.

Getting in

How hard is it to get a place at Blagdon Primary School?

Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026.

9
families put it first for September 2026
9
places offered
100%
of first choices offered a place (England’s primaries: 93%)
First choices and places, by year of entry
2020202120222023202420252026
Families who put it firstPlaces offered
Red figures: first choices not offered a place

Years when some first choices missed out: 2020 (1). The council runs the coordinated admissions; each school’s rules (siblings, distance, faith) decide who gets in. DfE doesn’t publish the furthest distance offered, so check the council’s admissions booklet for that. Lighthouse Schools Partnership sets the admissions rules. Apply through North Somerset council’s coordinated admissions.

Demand for primary schools nearby, September 2026

Outline = places offered · green = families who put it first · striped = more first choices than places

1.32 per place
76% got their first choice
1.20 per place
83% got their first choice
1.00 per place
100% got their first choice
Blagdon Primary
1.00 per place
100% got their first choice
1.00 per place
100% got their first choice
1.00 per place
100% got their first choice
0.92 per place
100% got their first choice

Blagdon and North Somerset, side by side

2023–2025

All 56 graded primaries in North Somerset. Schools with more pupils on free school meals usually score lower, so a school above the crowd for its free school meals is doing better than its intake predicts. Blagdon’s schools are coloured by their letter.

30%40%50%60%70%80%10%20%30%40%50%Pupils eligible for free school meals →KS2 expected standard →Blagdon
ABCDElsewhere in North SomersetBlagdon Primary
Show as a table
SchoolLetterFree school mealsKS2 expected standard
Tickenham Church of England Primary SchoolA+0%86%
Birdwell Primary SchoolA6%81%
St Peter's Church of England Primary SchoolA6%79%
Winscombe Primary SchoolA8%77%
St Nicholas Chantry Church of England Primary SchoolA−7%75%
High Down Junior SchoolA−10%73%
Northleaze Church of England Primary SchoolA−1%73%
St Francis Catholic Primary SchoolA−16%73%
St Joseph's Catholic Primary SchoolA−9%73%
Yeo Moor Primary SchoolA−11%72%
St Andrew's CofE Primary SchoolA−14%71%
Churchill Church of England Primary SchoolA−19%71%
Grove Junior SchoolB+13%70%
Blagdon Primary SchoolB+13%70%
Sandford Primary SchoolB+18%70%
Golden Valley Primary SchoolB+9%70%
Herons' Moor AcademyB+17%69%
Oldmixon Primary SchoolB+48%69%
St Anne's Church Primary SchoolB+10%69%
Uphill Village AcademyB+17%69%
Portishead Primary SchoolB+6%68%
Worle Village Primary SchoolB+32%68%
Dundry Church of England Primary SchoolB+23%68%
All Saints Church of England Primary SchoolB+6%68%
Court-De-Wyck Church SchoolB20%67%
St Mark's Ecumenical Anglican/Methodist Primary SchoolB15%67%
Backwell Church of England Junior SchoolB4%67%
Flax Bourton Church of England Primary SchoolB5%66%
Haywood Village AcademyB19%65%
St John the Evangelist Church SchoolB−8%64%
Wrington Church of England Primary SchoolB−5%64%
Trinity Anglican-Methodist Primary SchoolB−10%62%
St Mary's Church of England Primary School, PortburyB−10%62%
St Martin's Church of England Primary SchoolB−18%61%
Worlebury St Pauls Church SchoolB−7%61%
Burrington Church of England Primary SchoolC+7%58%
Mary Elton Primary SchoolC10%57%
Castle Batch Primary SchoolC9%57%
Yatton Church of England Junior SchoolC16%55%
Mendip Green Primary SchoolC19%55%
Locking Primary SchoolC20%54%
St Georges Church SchoolC−14%53%
Christ Church Church of England Primary SchoolC−23%53%
Becket Primary SchoolC−28%53%
Ashcombe Primary SchoolC−23%53%
Winford Church of England Primary SchoolC−8%52%
Milton Park Primary SchoolC−25%51%
Banwell Primary SchoolC−26%51%
Corpus Christi Catholic Primary SchoolC−8%51%
Hutton Church of England Primary SchoolC−8%50%
Mead Vale Community Primary SchoolC−19%49%
Crockerne Church of England Primary SchoolD16%42%
Kingshill Church SchoolD33%41%
Walliscote Primary SchoolD−28%38%
Windwhistle Primary SchoolD−44%31%
Bournville Primary SchoolD−50%30%

Who goes here

DfE school census, January 2025

94 pupils. SEN support is extra help in school for a special educational need; an EHC plan is the council’s legal plan for pupils who need more.

SEN support
3.2%England 15.3%
EHC plan
6.4%England 3.6%
English as an additional language
4.3%England 18.8%
Free school meals in the last 6 years
17%England 26.2%

Girls and boys

Girls 43%Boys 57%
Its letter

Blagdon Primary School’s letter

Its own results against England’s schools, not the town’s School Grade.

Primary: KS2 reading, writing and maths B+Better than 72% of 15,230 schools
How school letters are worked out

Each school’s measure is compared with every graded school in England of the same phase: for primaries, the share of pupils meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (DfE’s three-year average); for secondaries, Attainment 8 and the share with grade 5 or above in English and maths, each turned into a z-score against England’s schools and averaged. The letter comes from the share of those schools it beats, in the same bands as every grade on the site. The same method gives U.S. schools their letters, against their own state.

A+ 95+A 85–94A− 75–84B+ 65–74B 55–64B− 45–54C+ 35–44C 25–34C− 15–24D 5–14D− 0–4

Graded: England’s open mainstream state schools with published results (grammar schools included, which select by test). Not graded: special schools, alternative provision, nurseries, 16–19 colleges, UTCs and studio schools, Welsh schools. Ofsted plays no part.

Ofsted

Ofsted inspections

Shown, not graded: Ofsted is never part of a letter or the School Grade.

Graded inspection: Good, October 2023.

The full reports on Ofsted ↗

Living nearby

Living near Blagdon Primary School

For families thinking of moving: what homes cost around the school, and the other schools close by.

Home prices in BS40 7, the school’s postcode sector

Blagdon property prices →
£581,000
median sale, 58 sales in 36 months · Blagdon £495,000

Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025

£200K£300K£400K£500K£600K£700K2010201520202025BS40 7Blagdon
BS40 7Blagdon

By type, the 36 months to August 2026

Detached
£670K
Semi-detached
£442K
Terraced
£298K
BS40 7Blagdon

Homes in BS40 7 sell for well over Blagdon’s typical price. HM Land Registry Price Paid, standard sales. Catchments aren’t published, so the postcode sector stands in for “around the school”.

Schools within 1.6 miles

1 state school
0.5 mi1 mi1.5 miNCB+Blagdon Primary School
ABCDNo letterPrimarySecondary / all-through

Blagdon, BS40 7RW

Blagdon Primary School: common questions

Is Blagdon Primary School a good school?

By its published results, above average: its Key Stage 2 results are better than 72% of England’s primary schools (its letter is B+), with 70% of pupils meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, against 62% for England’s schools. Ofsted: Good, October 2023.

How hard is it to get into Blagdon Primary School?

For September 2026, 9 families put Blagdon Primary School first and all of them were offered a place; 9 places were offered in all.

What is Blagdon Primary School’s Ofsted rating?

Its latest inspection outcome is Good (October 2023).

How much do houses cost near Blagdon Primary School?

Homes in its postcode sector, BS40 7, sold for a median £581,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (58 sales).

Sources: DfE Get Information about Schools (16 October 2026), Key Stage 2 performance tables (2023–2025, three-year average) and Key Stage 4 (2025/26, provisional); Ofsted state-funded school inspections as at 30 September 2026. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Also: DfE Key Stage 4 performance, schools data (2023/24 and 2024/25 final, 2025/26 provisional) and Key Stage 2 performance tables 2024/25 by subject; DfE school census, January 2025; DfE school-level applications and offers, September 2019 to 2026 entry; HM Land Registry Price Paid by postcode sector, 2010 to August 2026.

A school’s letter is our own summary of its published results against England’s schools of the same phase; Blagdon’s School Grade is a separate grade, built from the results of the schools in and around the town against other towns. Map: © OpenStreetMap contributors.

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