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The search form enables you to find information about maintained schools and FE colleges in Somerset in various ways:
By Place
- Any part of the school/establishment name.
- Any part of the address.
- Any part of the town.
- Any part of the postcode.
- The Department for Education and Skills's (DfES) number for the school (4 digits - only the exact number will be matched) - e.g. 3401, 3196.
- The Somerset County Treasurer's number for the school (3 digits - only the exact number will be matched) - e.g. 059, 103.
- The name of the head is shown, as well as the name of the acting head, where applicable.
- Any part of the school/establishment name.
- Minimum and maximum pupils' age - e.g. 6 and 12. If you leave either field blank they will default to zero and 19 respectively.
- Minimum and maximum number on roll/register - based on DfES Pupil Level Annual Schools Census conducted in January of each year. This data will be refreshed approximately a month after it is collected each January. If you leave either field blank they will default to zero and 9999 respectively.
- The setting type of a school (drop-down menu) where you can select
Community, Voluntary Controlled, Voluntary Aided, Foundation or Lifelong
Learning.
- CO (Community) - Provided and maintained by the Local Education Authority: religious education and worship are non-denominational.
- VC (Voluntary Controlled)- Provided by a voluntary (normally Church) body and maintained by the Local Education Authority: religious education is non-denominational except that parents may denominational teaching.
- VA (Voluntary Aided)- Provided by a voluntary (normally Church) body and maintained by the Local Education Authority: religious education and worship are normally denominational.
- FO (Foundation) - Former Grant Maintained Schools which did not opt for Voluntary Aided Status maintained by the Local Education Authority: religious education and worship are normally non-denominational.
- Lifelong Learning.
- The school type of a school (drop-down menu) where you can select
Primary (includes Primary, First, Infant and Junior schools), Middle
schools, Secondary (includes Upper, Secondary-16, Secondary-18 schools),
Special schools, and All (which also includes other types such as Pupil
Referral Units).
If you search by making entries in more than one box on the search form, the result is the set of schools that meet ALL your requirements. For example, you can specify:
- Schools with TA in the postcode and
- Schools which include the age range of 5-8
General search characteristics
- Information entered into the search form is not case-specific.
- Wildcards – if you enter only part of the required information - e.g. if you just type in Curry, it will bring back Curry Rivel and Curry Mallet results, i.e. Curry and anything which comes before it and after it.
- Spaces – if your search doesn’t return what you expected without spaces, then add a space or vice-versa. For example, in the establishment name field, if you type in Courtfields you will get no results. However, if you type in Court fields, you will get a result.
- Apostrophes – if your search doesn’t return what you expected without an apostrophe, then add an apostrophe, or vice-versa. For example, in the establishment name field, if you type in St Cuthberts you will get no results. However, if you type in St Cuthbert’s, you will get a result.
- Address field – searches for everything in the first line address
and/or the second line address and/or the third line address. For example,
if the school details are as follows:
Curry Rivel CofE VC Primary School
and you type Curry Rivel into the address line, you will get the above schools’ details back. You will also get details back if you type in Church Street.
Church Street
Curry Rivel
Langport
Note: some schools have only a first line address, some have a second line and no third, some have a third line address and no second etc but all have a postal town and a postcode.
- Age ranges:
Search within the range (e.g. min=4 and max=11) - this will bring back all schools within this range, i.e. 4-7, 4-9, 4-11, 7-11.
or
Search with an exact range (e.g. min=4 and max=11) and tick the 'Exact' checkbox - this will bring back all schools which have an age range of 4-11 only.
If you want to query any information or submit any feedback please e-mail sixhelp@somerset.gov.uk.