Education
The Unitary authority of North Somerset, provides support for 78 schools, delivering education to approximately 28,000 pupils. Infant and primary schools in Weston include: Ashcombe Primary, Becket Primary, Bournville Primary School, Castle Batch Primary school, Christ Church C of E Primary, Corpus Christi Catholic Primary, Herons Moor Community Primary, Hutton C of E Primary, Kewstoke Primary, Mead Vale Primary, Milton Park Primary, St. Georges V.A. Church Primary, St Mark's VA Church of England/Methodist Ecumenical Primary School, Walliscote Primary, Windwhistle Primary and Worlebury St. Pauls C.E.V.A. First School.
Secondary education is provided by Broadoak Mathematics and Computing College, Priory Community School, Worle Community School and Hans Price Academy. Further and higher education is provided by Weston College. The town's four secondary schools' GCSE results are in the bottom five and are below the average for schools in North Somerset.
Nigel Leat, a teacher at Hillside First School, was jailed indefinitely in summer 2011 for Paedophile offenses that happened over a 14 year period. The school's headmaster lost his job in December 2011 due to the incident.
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