Priory Community School
Secondary · Academy converter · Ages 11–16 · Weston-Super-Mare, North Somerset
Last distance offered · Year 7 2026
Every applicant was offered a place
From North Somerset Council · offers on 2 March 2026
2015–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Priory Community School is a secondary school in Weston-Super-Mare, North Somerset for ages 11–16 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 20 February 2024. North Somerset has published a last distance offered for this school for Year 7 2015 to 2026 entry.
Priory Community School catchment area: last distance offered
Parents often call this the catchment area: it's how far from the school the last child offered a place lived. It changes every year.
| Entry | Last distance offered |
|---|---|
| Year 7 2026 | Every applicant was offered a place |
| Year 7 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2023 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2022 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2021 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2020 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2019 | 🔒 With a pass |
And 4 earlier figures.
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- Every applicant for Year 7 in 2026 was offered a place, whereas places ran out (a last distance was published) in all 11 earlier years.
- 5 of the 10 other North Somerset secondary schools with a published Year 7 2026 outcome also offered every applicant a place that year.
- For Year 7 in 2026, there were 264 first-choice applications for 269 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 5 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- 2024/25: 36% got grade 5 or above in GCSE English and maths (England 45%), 3rd lowest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest secondary schools in North Somerset.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other North Somerset schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Queensway, Weston-Super-Mare, BS22 6BP
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- Ages
- 11–16
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Council
- North Somerset
- Pupils on roll
- 1,486 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 18.5% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 18
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 20 February 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils like coming to Priory Community School.”
- “Pupils are generally kind, empathetic and respectful.”
- “One pupil’s comment echoed that of many others, ‘You can be whoever you want to be at this school’.”
To improve
- “However, some pupils, particularly disadvantaged pupils, do not learn as well as their peers.”
- “This is because their literacy needs are not fully met in some subjects.”
- “Although the school teaches phonics and pupils listen to a range of texts, there is not a coherent approach to developing pupils’ early reading skills, or their enjoyment of reading.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 20 March 2024 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Exam results
| Measure | School | England |
|---|---|---|
| GCSE English and maths, grade 5 or above (2024/25) | 36% | 45% |
| Attainment 8 score (2024/25) | 44.2 | 46 |
Department for Education school performance data. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Year 7 entry: 264 first-preference applications, 269 offers in total, 264 offers to first-preference applicants.
Department for Education, school-level applications and offers, figures on national offer day. Earlier years are in the pass.
Nearby secondary schools
Straight-line distance, in North Somerset.
- Worle Community School 1.1 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Winterstoke Hundred Academy 1.9 mi Good Last distance published
- Hans Price Academy 3.0 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Broadoak Academy 3.8 mi Good Last distance published
- Churchill Academy & Sixth Form 4.7 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Clevedon School 6.4 mi Good Last distance published
- Nailsea School 8.0 mi Good Last distance published
- Backwell School 8.2 mi Standards maintained Last distance published