Alderbury and West Grimstead Church of England Primary School
General Information
- Address: Firs Road, Alderbury, Salisbury, SP5 3BD – View on map
- Phone: 01722710464
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Mrs Emily Woolf
- Age range: 4-11 years
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 11 families put it first for 11 places – 10 for every 10 places. Every one of them was offered a place. No places went to families living outside the council area. Children putting it first, for every 10 places: 2024 10 · 2025 10 · 2026 10
- Sixth form: No
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: Church of England
- Nursery provision: No
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 15
- % eligible for free school meals: 12.6%
- Pupil mix: 2 in 10 (similar to the Wiltshire average)
- English as an additional language: 5% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 24.4% a year (Wiltshire 17.3%, typical in England 13.9%)
- Where they went: about 0% moved to another school, 100% left state schools altogether (retirement, other careers, independent schools, abroad)
- Data years: 2022/23 to 2024/25 (one year, DfE school workforce census)
Teachers who moved school or left state schools in the year after each November, as a share of all the school's teachers. Some turnover is healthy – retirements, promotions, moving house. This is a small staff, so one or two teachers leaving moves the figure a lot.
Behaviour
Awaiting Data
Across Wiltshire: suspensions by reason
- Suspensions for sexual misconduct: 6 (0.2 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.2)
- Permanent exclusions for sexual misconduct: 0
- Suspensions for bullying: 6 (0.2 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.2)
- Suspensions for abuse against sexual orientation or gender identity: 2 (0.1 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.0)
- Data year: 2024/25 (DfE suspensions and exclusions statistics)
These are figures for all state primary schools in Wiltshire, not this school's own – the government doesn't publish them school by school. A suspension can have up to three reasons. Most sexual harassment between pupils never leads to a suspension, so these figures show only part of the picture.
Attendance
- Overall absence: 4.9%
- Persistently absent pupils: 9.4%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
No dedicated Unit or Resourced Provision
- Pupils on SEN Support: 13.4%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 5.0%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Moderate learning difficulty: 5 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 5 pupils
- Specific learning difficulty: 2 pupils
- Speech, language and communications needs: 2 pupils
- Physical disability: 2 pupils
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Physical disability: 2 pupils
- Speech, language and communications needs: 1 pupil
- Social, emotional and mental health: 1 pupil
- Moderate learning difficulty: 1 pupil
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 1 pupil
These figures show the makeup of the school.
Educational Attainment
Requires improvement 2021 report
Year 6 SATs results
- Met the expected standard in reading, writing & maths: 79% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 7% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: 20 percentage points above the Wiltshire average (59%)
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 83% · Writing 79% · Maths 86% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 86%
- Average test scores: reading 107, maths 108
- Based on: 29 Year 6 pupils, 2024/25
View the School Context Comparator – how this school's SATs results compare with schools teaching similar pupils.
Year 6 SATs: joint 17th of 174 junior and primary schools in the area
- =15King's Gate Primary School80%
- =15Netheravon All Saints CofE Primary School80%
- =17Alderbury and West Grimstead Church of England Primary School79%
- =17All Cannings Church of England Primary School79%
- =17Colerne CofE Primary School79%
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131st of 143 primary schools in Wiltshire for Ofsted rating
- #129Woodlands Primary SchoolGood
- #130Wylye Valley Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary SchoolGood
- #131Alderbury and West Grimstead Church of England Primary SchoolRequires improvement
- #132Charter Primary SchoolRequires improvement
- #133Christian Malford CofE Primary SchoolRequires improvement
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £6,787 (2024-25)
86th of 184 primary schools in Wiltshire for spending per pupil
- #84St Katharine's CofE Primary School£6,821
- #85Kington St Michael Church of England Primary School£6,799
- #86Alderbury and West Grimstead Church of England Primary School£6,787
- #87The Trinity Church of England Primary Academy£6,781
- #88Semley Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School£6,756
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