The School Record

Published admissions and inspection figures for schools in England, from the DfE, Ofsted and local authorities.

St John's Church of England Voluntary Aided First School, Frome

URN 123843 · Primary · Voluntary aided school · Somerset

Christchurch Street East, Frome, BA11 1QG

How many families applied

Preferences expressed and offers made at Reception, as published by the Department for Education. These describe demand. They do not indicate whether any particular child would be offered a place.

In the 2025 intake, 18 families named St John's Church of England Voluntary Aided First School, Frome as their first preference, and the school made 20 offers.

That is 0.90 first preferences per place offered, which places it above 21% of schools admitting at Reception in England that year.

More first preferences per place than 21% of comparable schools position among schools in England admitting at Reception, 2025 intake

Little change. Across the 5 most recent years held, first preferences per place averaged 0.91 in 2021–2022 and 0.95 in 2024–2025.

Applications and offers at Reception, 12 intake years
Intake 1st preferences All preferences Offers made 1st prefs per place
2025 18 45 20 0.90
2024 26 59 26 1.00
2023 27 70 34 0.79
2022 32 74 34 0.94
2021 48 112 55 0.87
2020 40 116 47 0.85
2019 66 135 60 1.10
2018 57 130 58 0.98
2017 42 121 46 0.91
2016 55 149 60 0.92
2015 58 159 60 0.97
2014 59 152 60 0.98

“Offers made” counts the offers the school made. It is not the number of places the school had, so please do not read it as one.

Ofsted

Ofsted changed its inspection framework: the current one publishes several graded areas and no single overall grade, while the previous one published an overall effectiveness grade. Each inspection below states which framework produced it.

Ofsted inspections from 2023 to 202420232024

Ofsted graded inspection (previous framework), 23 April 2024

Overall effectiveness: Requires improvement

Quality of education: Requires improvement

Behaviour and attitudes: Good

Personal development: Good

Leadership and management: Requires improvement

Early years: Good

Sixth form / post-16: 9

Ofsted's report for this school

Ofsted ungraded inspection, 8 February 2023

School remains Good (Concerns) - S5 Next

Ofsted's report for this school

Teachers staying and leaving

These come from the School Workforce Census, which follows each teacher into the next year. The numbers count full-time jobs, so a teacher who works half the week counts as half. They are not a count of people.

Census yearTeachers (FTE) Still there a year later Moved to another state school Left state schools Left in total
2024/25 10.0 8.4 1.0 0.6 16.0%
2023/24 11.2 7.0 2.0 2.2 37.5%
2022/23 12.6 8.8 2.0 1.8 30.2%
2021/22 13.0 9.6 0.0 3.4 26.2%
2020/21 13.2 11.8 1.0 0.4 10.6%
2019/20 10.6 9.6 0.0 1.0 9.4%

This is turnover among teachers. It says nothing about the headteacher or the senior leadership team: DfE publishes leadership retention separately and we do not hold it by school.

Catchment area

Nobody publishes a catchment area map for this school that we can read. That does not mean an address is outside its area. It means we hold no map, so we cannot tell you either way.

Where it is

The 6 nearest primary schools we hold figures for, by straight-line distance from St John's Church of England Voluntary Aided First School, Frome.

Nearby and related

Where these figures come from

This page was made on 9 September 2026. "Retrieved" means the day we downloaded the data. It is not the day the data was written, so the figures can be about an earlier year. How we compare schools.