Cheddar First School is a large primary school. The vast majority of its pupils come from families of White British backgrounds but there is an increasing number of pupils from minority ethnic backgrounds, a few of whom are learning English as an additional language. The school also has a small group of pupils from the Traveller community who live locally. The proportion of pupils identified as having special educational needs and/or disabilities is below average. There are no pupils with statements of special needs. The most common difficulties are in the range of mild learning difficulties, behavioural, emotional and social difficulties or medical problems. The school has received a number of awards in the past and has recently regained the Active mark. There is a committee run pre-school group on the school site which was not part of this inspection and the new children's centre is to open on 20 January 2011.