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Uphill Village Academy

PrimaryAges 4–11Academy

Weston-super-Mare, BS23 4XH · North Somerset local authority

Weston-super-Mare’s School Grade C− better than 19% of towns in England

Its letter
69%
of England’s primaries have lower KS2 results
Getting in
43/58
first choices offered a place, 2026 (England: 93%)
How full
309 pupils
98% of its 315 places
Free school meals
17%
17 in 100 pupils eligible · outlined square = England’s schools (25)
The gist

What stands out about Uphill Village Academy

  • Its own letter, B+: Key Stage 2 results better than 69% of England’s primary schools
  • 69% meet the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 7 points above England’s schools
  • Ofsted: Inspected, October 2024 (shown, not graded)
  • 74% of families who put it first got a place for September 2026 (43 of 58)
  • Homes in its postcode sector (BS23 4) sold for a median £290,000; Weston-super-Mare’s is £254,995

Results

DfE · Key Stage 2

Reading, writing and maths 69%

Met the expected standard, DfE’s 3-year average 2023–2025 · higher than 69% of England’s 14,979 graded primaries · North Somerset avg 62%

0%20%40%60%80%100%England avg 61.6%Uphill Village 69%

Each subject, 2025

Met the expected standard; the mark is England’s schools · average scaled score: reading 108, maths 107 (100 = the expected standard)

Reading80%
England’s schools 77%
Writing (teacher assessed)80%
England’s schools 73%
Maths80%
England’s schools 75%
Grammar, punctuation and spelling80%
England’s schools 74%
Reached the higher standard in all three7%
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 Uphill Village Academy?

74% of the families who put it first got a place for September 2026.

58
families put it first for September 2026
43
places offered
74%
of first choices offered a place (England’s primaries: 93%)
First choices and places, by year of entry
20192020202120222023202420252026
Families who put it firstPlaces offered
Red figures: first choices not offered a place

Years when some first choices missed out: 2021 (2), 2022 (7), 2023 (3), 2025 (11), 2026 (15). 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. Cabot Learning Federation sets the admissions rules. Apply through North Somerset council’s coordinated admissions.

Demand for primary schools in Weston-super-Mare, September 2026

Outline = places offered · green = families who put it first · striped = more first choices than places · the 10 most in demand

Uphill Village
1.35 per place
74% got their first choice
1.18 per place
85% got their first choice
1.10 per place
91% got their first choice
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
1.00 per place
100% got their first choice
0.98 per place
100% got their first choice
0.98 per place
98% got their first choice
0.98 per place
100% got their first choice

Weston-super-Mare 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. Weston-super-Mare’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 →Uphill Village
ABCDElsewhere in North SomersetUphill Village
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

312 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
14.1%England 15.3%
EHC plan
3.5%England 3.6%
English as an additional language
7.1%England 18.8%
Free school meals in the last 6 years
15.4%England 26.2%

Girls and boys

Girls 50%Boys 50%
Its letter

Uphill Village Academy’s letter

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

Primary: KS2 reading, writing and maths B+Better than 69% 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 (no overall grade since September 2024), October 2024. Ungraded inspection: School remains Good (Improving), July 2023.

The full reports on Ofsted ↗

Living nearby

Living near Uphill Village Academy

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

Home prices in BS23 4, the school’s postcode sector

Weston-super-Mare property prices →
£290,000
median sale, 376 sales in 36 months · Weston-super-Mare £254,995

Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025

£100K£150K£200K£250K£300K£350K2010201520202025BS23 4Weston-super-Mare
BS23 4Weston-super-Mare

By type, the 36 months to August 2026

Detached
£464K
Semi-detached
£340K
Terraced
£268K
Flat
£180K
BS23 4Weston-super-Mare

Homes in BS23 4 sell for a little over Weston-super-Mare’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

7 state schools
0.5 mi1 mi1.5 miNB−D−D−D−B+DC−B+Uphill Village Academy
ABCDNo letterPrimarySecondary / all-through

Weston-super-Mare, BS23 4XH

Uphill Village Academy: common questions

Is Uphill Village Academy a good school?

By its published results, above average: its Key Stage 2 results are better than 69% of England’s primary schools (its letter is B+), with 69% of pupils meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, against 62% for England’s schools. Ofsted: Inspected, October 2024.

How hard is it to get into Uphill Village Academy?

For September 2026, 58 families put Uphill Village Academy first and 43 of them were offered a place; 43 places were offered in all.

What is Uphill Village Academy’s Ofsted rating?

Its latest inspection outcome is Inspected (October 2024).

How much do houses cost near Uphill Village Academy?

Homes in its postcode sector, BS23 4, sold for a median £290,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (376 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; Weston-super-Mare’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.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026 (ONS boundaries). Northern Ireland: Source: NISRA; contains Land & Property Services data and Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland information, © Crown copyright, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Scotland: contains National Records of Scotland data, Registers of Scotland data and SEPA data, © Crown copyright / © SEPA 2025, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.