Private schools in Somerset

Somerset has 16 private schools, also called independent schools. They are not ranked: the government leaves most private schools out of its results tables because they sit IGCSEs, and most are inspected by the Independent Schools Inspectorate rather than Ofsted, so there is nothing to rank them on that would be fair. The list shows what is published: the ages they take, how many pupils they have and who inspects them.

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Private schools (16)

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School	Type	Ages	Pupils	Low income	Ofsted
All Hallows SchoolShepton Mallet	Independent school	3-13	201	–	Not inspected
Chard SchoolChard	Independent school	4-11	58	–	Not inspected
Downside SchoolRadstock	Independent school	11-18	249	–	Not inspected
Hazlegrove Preparatory SchoolYeovil	Independent school	2-14	375	–	Not inspected
King's BrutonBruton	Independent school	13-19	304	–	Not inspected
King's College PrepTaunton	Independent school	0-13	260	–	Not inspected
King's College TauntonTaunton	Independent school	13-19	389	–	Not inspected
Millfield Preparatory SchoolGlastonbury	Independent school	2-13	435	–	Not inspected
Millfield SchoolStreet	Independent school	12-19	1,276	–	Not inspected
Perrott Hill School LimitedCrewkerne	Independent school	2-13	134	–	Not inspected
Queen's CollegeTaunton	Independent school	3-19	613	–	Not inspected
Springmead Preparatory School	Independent school	2-11	100	–	Not inspected
Taunton Preparatory SchoolTaunton	Independent school	0-13	588	–	Not inspected
Taunton SchoolTaunton	Independent school	8-19	667	–	Not inspected
Wellington SchoolWellington	Independent school	2-20	776	–	Not inspected
Wells Cathedral SchoolWells	Independent school	2-19	670	–	Not inspected

Private schools by town in Somerset

Bridgwater36 schools Bruton3 schools Castle Cary3 schools Chard9 schools Cheddar3 schools Crewkerne8 schools Frome20 schools Glastonbury9 schools Highbridge8 schools Langport6 schools Minehead10 schools Shepton Mallet10 schools Stoke-sub-Hamdon3 schools Street7 schools Taunton57 schools Wellington11 schools Wells12 schools Wincanton3 schools Yeovil30 schools

Private schools in nearby areas

Devon426 schools Gloucestershire338 schools Cornwall299 schools Wiltshire265 schools Dorset184 schools Bristol, City of174 schools South Gloucestershire126 schools Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole117 schools Plymouth107 schools Bath and North East Somerset94 schools Swindon92 schools North Somerset85 schools

About this list

Private schools charge fees and set their own admissions. The list comes from the Department for Education's register of schools, which records every registered independent school whether or not it publishes results. Most are inspected by the Independent Schools Inspectorate rather than Ofsted, and most sit IGCSEs, which the government leaves out of its performance tables. That is why they carry no School Chooser Score and are listed alphabetically rather than ranked. Fees are not published in any national dataset, so they are not shown here; ask the school. How the score works.