Castle Cary Community Primary School
Castle Cary, BA7 7EH · Somerset local authority
Castle Cary’s School Grade B better than 65% of towns in England
What stands out about Castle Cary Community Primary School
- Its own letter, B+: Key Stage 2 results better than 66% of England’s primary schools
- Ofsted: Requires improvement, December 2021 (shown, not graded)
- Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026 (21 of 21)
- Homes in its postcode sector (BA7 7) sold for a median £285,000; Castle Cary’s is £280,000
How hard is it to get a place at Castle Cary Community Primary School?
Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026.
In every year shown, every family who put it first was offered a place. 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. The Academies for Character and Excellence sets the admissions rules. Apply through Somerset council’s coordinated admissions.
Outline = places offered · green = families who put it first · striped = more first choices than places
100% got their first choice
Who goes here
DfE school census, January 2025194 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.
Girls and boys
Castle Cary Community Primary School’s letter
Its own results against England’s schools, not the town’s School Grade.
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.
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 inspections
Shown, not graded: Ofsted is never part of a letter or the School Grade.
Graded inspection: Requires improvement, December 2021.
Living near Castle Cary Community Primary School
For families thinking of moving: what homes cost around the school, and the other schools close by.
Home prices in BA7 7, the school’s postcode sector
Castle Cary property prices →Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025
By type, the 36 months to August 2026
Homes in BA7 7 sell for about the same as Castle Cary’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 schoolLocation
Directions ↗Castle Cary, BA7 7EH
Castle Cary Community Primary School: common questions
Is Castle Cary Community Primary School a good school?
By its published results, above average: its Key Stage 2 results are better than 66% of England’s primary schools (its letter is B+), with 0% of pupils meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, against 62% for England’s schools. Ofsted: Requires improvement, December 2021.
How hard is it to get into Castle Cary Community Primary School?
For September 2026, 21 families put Castle Cary Community Primary School first and all of them were offered a place; 22 places were offered in all.
What is Castle Cary Community Primary School’s Ofsted rating?
Its latest inspection outcome is Requires improvement (December 2021).
How much do houses cost near Castle Cary Community Primary School?
Homes in its postcode sector, BA7 7, sold for a median £285,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (177 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; Castle Cary’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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