Ditcheat Primary School
Primary · Shepton Mallet · BA4 6RB
Report-card inspection (current system, from November 2025)
The headline grade shown is the Achievement area of the school's report card.
Inspected 6 January 2026 · report published 1 March 2026
Read the Ofsted report ↗At a glance
89 pupils · 99% of 90 capacity
- School type
- Community school
- Age range
- 4–11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Free school meals
- 13.5% of pupils
- English as additional language
- 0% of pupils
- SEN support
- 5.1% of pupils
- EHC plan
- 1.3% of pupils
- URN
- 123642
Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026
1.25 first-choice applications per place12 places offered · 15 first-choice applications · oversubscribed
First-choice applications per place, by entry year
Applications and offers on national offer day, DfE. A ratio above 1.00 means more families named this school first choice than there were places.
Key stage 2 results (2024/2025)
10 pupils at the end of key stage 2 in 2024/2025
Source: DfE performance tables 2024/2025. “Suppressed” means the DfE withholds figures for very small cohorts.
Attendance (2025/26 autumn term)
Autumn-term absence, DfE pupil absence data. Lower is better.
Staffing
Full-time-equivalent, 2025/26.
Teacher retention (2024/25)
64% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 36% left the state-funded sector
School Workforce Census, DfE. The ratio counts full-time-equivalent qualified teachers; retention follows teachers in post one November to the next. Open Government Licence v3.0.
Inspection history since 2015
- 6 January 2026: Expected standard
- 3 November 2021: Good
- 24 October 2018: School remains Good (Concerns) - S5 Next
Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.