Minehead First School
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 2–9 · Minehead, Somerset
Minehead First School is a primary school in Minehead, Somerset for ages 2–9 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 21 February 2024.
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Catchment area for Minehead First School
- The council’s catchment or priority area for this school, on the map
- Earlier years of applications and offers
- Crime, sold prices and rents, broadband and transport around the school
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Key facts
- Address
- Townsend Road, Minehead, TA24 5RG
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 2–9
- Council
- Somerset
- Pupils on roll
- 286 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 16.8% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 34.5
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 21 February 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils live up to the school’s values such as community, ambition and respect.”
- “Relationships between staff and pupils are warm and respectful.”
- “The school knows pupils as individuals.”
To improve
- “In a few subjects, the school has not identified the essential knowledge that pupils must know and remember.”
- “Pupils do not make connections between facts learned.”
- “For example, in history, pupils can remember key information from current topics, but struggle to link these to important concepts across historical periods.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 26 March 2024 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 45 first-preference applications, 47 offers in total, 45 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 primary schools
Straight-line distance, in Somerset.
- St Michael's Church of England First School 0.3 mi Standards maintained
- Dunster First School 1.9 mi School remains Good
- Timberscombe Church of England First School 2.5 mi Good
- St Dubricius Church of England VA School 5.1 mi School remains Good
- Cutcombe Church of England First School 5.1 mi Standards maintained
- Old Cleeve Church of England First School 5.7 mi Good
- Knights Templar Community Church School & Nursery 7.0 mi Not judged
- St Peter's Church of England First School 7.2 mi Good