Bridgwater College Academy
All-through · Bridgwater · TA6 4QY
Report-card inspection (current system, from November 2025)
The headline grade shown is the Achievement area of the school's report card.
Inspected 10 March 2026 · report published 19 May 2026
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1,561 pupils · 83% of 1,880 capacity
- School type
- Academy sponsor led
- Age range
- 3–16
- Gender
- Mixed
- Admissions
- Non-selective
- Free school meals
- 36.1% of pupils
- English as additional language
- 20% of pupils
- SEN support
- 24.1% of pupils
- EHC plan
- 4.1% of pupils
- Nursery
- Yes
- URN
- 138375
Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026
0.89 first-choice applications per place76 places offered · 68 first-choice applications · roughly balanced
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.
Admissions demand: Year 7 entry, September 2026
0.89 first-choice applications per place120 places offered · 107 first-choice applications · roughly balanced
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)
81 pupils at the end of key stage 2 in 2024/2025
GCSE results (2024/2025)
187 pupils at the end of key stage 4 in 2024/2025
Progress 8 is suspended nationally for 2024/25 and 2025/26. These cohorts sat no key stage 2 tests (COVID), so there is no baseline to measure progress from.
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)
87% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 4% moved to another state school · 9% 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.
Where pupils go after GCSEs
Destinations measured the year after leaving, latest DfE destination measures release.
Inspection history since 2015
- 10 March 2026: Urgent improvement
- 10 May 2023: Requires improvement
- 4 February 2020: Section 8 inspections of good and non-exempt outstanding schools
- 28 June 2016: Good
Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.