The Kings of Wessex Academy

Secondary school

The Kings of Wessex Academy is a secondary school in Somerset, for pupils aged 13 to 18. It had 1,043 pupils at the school census in January 2026.

Ofsted

Latest inspections as at 30 September 2026

Standards maintained, November 2024

Outcomes as Ofsted published them. Report cards (from November 2025) give no overall grade, and grades under different frameworks can’t be compared.

Department for Education

In 2025/26, the average Attainment 8 score at The Kings of Wessex Academy was 47.2, against 43.4 in Somerset and 46.2 in England.

47.5% of its pupils got grade 5 or above in English and maths GCSEs (46.3% in England).

2025/26, provisional

Measure	This school	Somerset	England
Average Attainment 8 score	47.2	43.4	46.2
Grade 5 or above in English and maths	47.5%	39.7%	46.3%
Grade 4 or above in English and maths	71.7%	60.3%	64.8%
Pupils at the end of KS4	244	–	–

The 2025/26 figures are provisional. The Department for Education publishes revised ones later in the school year.
Progress 8 cannot be worked out for 2025/26, because the KS2 tests that give the starting point were cancelled in 2020 and 2021.
Results reflect the pupils a school admits as well as its teaching, and a year's results can move a lot in a small school.

In a straight line

Cheddar First SchoolPrimary. Graded inspection, November 2024: no overall grade380 m
Fairlands Middle SchoolSecondary. Graded inspection, September 2024: no overall grade. 54% met the expected standard at KS2 (2024/25)550 m

Admissions and catchments are set by councils and schools, which Open Index doesn’t map. Every school in Somerset

Schools: the school lists of the Department for Education, the Welsh Government and the Scottish Government, with Ofsted’s latest inspections for England.
Results: the Department for Education’s school performance tables (Open Government Licence).