Worle Community School, Weston-Super-Mare

Ofsted's report card from its 2 June 2026 inspection grades Worle Community School on 6 areas: 2 expected standard and 4 needs attention. Report cards replaced single-word judgements in November 2025, on a five-point scale from exceptional to urgent improvement.

Curriculum and teaching - Expected standard. "Leaders' work to improve the quality of teaching has had a positive impact."

Personal development and wellbeing - Expected standard. "Pupils' personal development has been prioritised by leaders."

Achievement - Needs attention. "Pupils' achievement at the end of key stage 4 has been below national averages in many areas for some time, in both attainment and progress measures."

Attendance and behaviour - Needs attention. "Leaders' oversight of pupils' attendance lacks rigour."

Inclusion - Needs attention. "Pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) are typically well-supported in lessons."

Leadership and governance - Needs attention. "Since the previous inspection, leaders have effectively stabilised the school, establishing clear routines for pupils and overcoming recruitment challenges, where possible."

Safeguarding standards were met.

Ofsted's next steps for the school: "Leaders should ensure that trustees receive detailed and accurate information about all areas of the school's work, so they are able to provide appropriate support and challenge"; "Leaders should ensure that there is coherent oversight of inclusion, so that pupils' needs are accurately identified and met and they are able to evaluate the impact of their work"; "Leaders should strengthen their oversight of pupils' attendance, including more precisely analysing attendance data and clarifying systems to monitor the attendance of vulnerable pupils"; "Leaders should ensure they effectively tackle the use of derogatory language by some pupils, including through strengthening relevant parts of the personal development curriculum".

In 2026, pupils at Worle Community School averaged an Attainment 8 score of 41.9, the average grade across their best eight GCSEs. The average state school scored 46.5 in North Somerset and 47 across England.

43% passed English and maths at grade 5 or above, against 44% in North Somerset and 47% in England.

That is up from 40.4 in 2025.

Its most recent Progress 8 score, for 2024, was -0.33: pupils made below average progress compared with pupils nationally who started secondary school at the same level. Progress 8 was not published for 2026.

Disadvantaged pupils averaged an Attainment 8 of 34.4, against 45 for other pupils at the school - a gap of 10.6 points.

Pupils sat GCSEs in 25 subjects; after English and maths, the most popular were Combined Science, Geography and Social Studies.

For September 2026 entry, 165 families put Worle Community School as their first choice and 284 named it as one of their preferences, for 173 places offered. It had fewer first-choice applications than places. Every family who put it first was offered a place there for 2026 entry.

The nearest other state secondary schools to Worle Community School are Winterstoke Hundred Academy (0.9 miles, Good, Attainment 8 40.5); Priory Community School (1.1 miles, Good, Attainment 8 43.5); Hans Price Academy (1.9 miles, Good, Attainment 8 47.2); and Broadoak Academy (2.7 miles, Good, Attainment 8 38.9).

Worle Community School's 2026 results were higher than 2 of these 4 schools.

Worle Community School is one of 20 schools run by Pathway Trust, an academy trust.

Of the 277 pupils who finished Year 11 in 2023/24, 83% stayed in education or training for at least two terms, including 74% to a further education college, 5% to an apprenticeship and 4% into work.

12.3% speak English as an additional language, against 18.8% on average, according to the 2026 school census.

In 2026, 130 pupils (10.5%) received SEN support and 48 (3.9%) had an education, health and care plan, against 16.2% and 4.6% at the average state school. The most common need among them is social, emotional and mental health needs.

The nearest railway station is Weston Milton Rail Station, about 1140 metres away (roughly a 14-minute walk).

8 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Nightingale Close (ne-bound), 160 metres away.

In August 2026, police recorded 168 crimes within a mile of the school, most often violence and sexual offences, anti-social behaviour and shoplifting. That is well above the typical figure around schools in North Somerset (76), as is usual near a town centre.

In 2024/25, Worle Community School issued 519 suspensions, 40.3 for every 100 pupils (the average state school: 6.3), and no permanent exclusions.

The primary schools closest to Worle Community School are Mead Vale Community Primary School (0.1 miles), Mendip Green Primary School (0.2 miles), St Martin's Church of England Primary School (0.4 miles) and Worle Village Primary School (0.5 miles). Admission does not depend on which primary a child attends unless the school's policy names feeder schools.