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Danesfield Church of England Voluntary Controlled Community Middle School

  • Secondary
  • Academy converter
  • Ages 9 to 13

URN 152723 · Somerset · MIDSOMER NORTON SCHOOLS PARTNERSHIP

In Somerset

Inspection

Ofsted management information, as at 30 September 2026.

Latest report card inspection

9 December 2025

Ofsted category: Requires significant improvement.

Inclusion
Needs attention
Curriculum and teaching
Urgent improvement
Achievement
Urgent improvement
Attendance and behaviour
Urgent improvement
Personal development and wellbeing
Needs attention
Leadership and governance
Needs attention
Safeguarding standards
Met

This inspection was of the predecessor school, before it converted or reopened under its current URN.

Requires Improvement S5 Reinspection Visit 3

Report cards, used from 10 November 2025, grade each area on a five-point scale and give no overall grade. Safeguarding is met or not met.

Earlier inspection, different framework

Earlier graded inspection

20 June 2023

Overall effectiveness
Requires improvement

Quality of education
Requires improvement
Behaviour and attitudes
Requires improvement
Personal development
Good
Leadership and management
Requires improvement
Safeguarding is effective
Yes

This inspection was of the predecessor school, before it converted or reopened under its current URN.

Requires Improvement S5 Reinspection Visit 2

Under the earlier framework, inspections gave an overall effectiveness grade.

Read the reports on Ofsted’s website. Source: Ofsted, State-funded school inspections and outcomes: management information.

Finance

Academies report their accounts as part of their trust, so DfE publishes no school-level balance for this school. The trust’s figures are in DfE’s Financial Benchmarking and Insights Tool.

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About the school

Capacity
450
Type
Academy converter
Phase
Middle deemed secondary
Age range
9 to 13
Sixth form
Does not have a sixth form
Gender
Mixed
Trust
MIDSOMER NORTON SCHOOLS PARTNERSHIP
Opened
1 September 2026
Setting
Larger rural: Further from a major town or city
Constituency
Tiverton and Minehead
Deprivation of the area (IDACI)
Decile 6 of 10 (1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods)

Address: North Road, Taunton, Somerset, TA4 4SW

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Sources and corrections

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Danesfield Church of England Voluntary Controlled Community Middle School, URN 152723. https://joshuamangas.com/intel/school/152723/. Data release 20 October 2026. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.