Wadham School
Wadham School is a mixed local-authority maintained secondary school in Crewkerne, Somerset Council, teaching 763 pupils aged 11 to 16. Ofsted graded quality of education as Requires improvement at its most recent inspection in January 2025. In 2024–2025, GCSE Attainment 8 was 42.3 (England 46.1). The 2025–2026 school year runs from 2 September 2025 to 22 July 2026.
Ofsted inspection
The latest published Ofsted judgement for Wadham School.
From September 2024 Ofsted no longer gives schools a single overall grade. These are the graded judgement areas from the latest inspection.
Scale: Outstanding Good Requires improvement Inadequate
Term dates & holidays 2025–2026
Autumn, spring and summer terms, half-terms, INSET days and bank holidays for Wadham School.
- 2–30 Autumn Term 2025
- 27–30 Autumn Half Term Holiday
- 1–31 Autumn Term 2025
- 1–31 Autumn Half Term Holiday
- 1–30 Autumn Term 2025
- 1–19 Autumn Term 2025
- 22–31 Christmas Holiday
- 1–2 Christmas Holiday
- 5–31 Spring Term 2026
- 1–28 Spring Term 2026
- 16–20 Spring Half Term Holiday
- 1–31 Spring Term 2026
- 1–2 Spring Term 2026
- 6–17 Easter Holiday
- 20–30 Summer Term 2026
- 1–31 Summer Term 2026
- 25–29 Summer Half Term Holiday
- 1–30 Summer Term 2026
- 1–22 Summer Term 2026
- 23 Summer Holiday
Key dates (2025–2026)
- Autumn Term 2025 September 2, 2025 - December 19, 2025 Term
- Autumn Half Term Holiday September 27 - October 31, 2025 Holiday
- Christmas Holiday December 22, 2025 - January 2, 2026 Holiday
- Spring Term 2026 January 5, 2026 - April 2, 2026 Term
- Spring Half Term Holiday February 16 - February 20, 2026 Holiday
- Easter Holiday April 6 - April 17, 2026 Holiday
- Summer Term 2026 April 20, 2026 - July 22, 2026 Term
- Summer Half Term Holiday May 25 - May 29, 2026 Holiday
- Summer Holiday July 23, 2026 - Early September 2026 Holiday
Exam results & performance
The measures that carry the most signal. Open a section to compare Wadham School with Somerset Council and England.
Key stage 4 (GCSE) 42.3 Attainment 8 score
Year 11 results across eight qualifications, including English and maths.
This school Somerset Council England
Attendance 25.9% Persistently absent pupils
Absence across the whole school year.
This school Somerset Council England
What pupils do after GCSEs 87% In education, apprenticeship or work
Still in education, an apprenticeship or work a year after key stage 4.
This school Somerset Council England
About this data source & caveats
Progress 8 is not published for 2024–2025. This year group missed their key stage 2 tests in 2020, so there is no baseline to measure progress from.
Attendance comparisons are pupil-weighted averages we calculate from every school’s published absence figure — the DfE absence file has no local authority or England rows of its own.
We show the headline measures only. Threshold and curriculum-policy figures — grade 4+ in English and maths, EBacc entry and points, the per-subject key stage 2 breakdown, academic and applied splits at 16 to 18 — reflect admissions and curriculum choices more than school quality, so they are left to GOV.UK. Progress measures matter most because they compare pupils with others who started at the same level; attainment on its own largely tracks a school’s intake.
Figures are the Department for Education’s official published results for Wadham School. Results are suppressed where too few pupils were entered. England figures are the average for state-funded schools. “Top x%” is this school’s position among all schools in England with a published figure for that measure — the DfE does not publish league table rankings.
Source: Compare school and college performance, Department for Education. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Location & catchment area
Indicative only. This is a nearest-school (Voronoi) estimate — the area closer to Wadham School than to any other secondary school. Real admissions depend on the school’s own policy (straight-line distance, siblings, faith, feeder schools and available places) and change each year. Always confirm with the school and local authority admissions team.