Castle Mead School
General Information
- Address: Mascroft Road, Trowbridge, BA14 6GD – View on map
- Phone: 01225768641
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Mrs Emma Larkham
- Age range: 2-11 years
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 36 families put it first for 36 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: 2023 9 · 2024 10 · 2025 10 · 2026 10
- Sixth form: No
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: None
- Nursery provision: Yes
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 86
- % eligible for free school meals: 26.8%
- Pupil mix: 4 in 10 (more mixed than the Wiltshire average)
- English as an additional language: 20% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 13.3% a year (Wiltshire 17.3%, typical in England 13.9%)
- Where they went: about 24% moved to another school, 76% left state schools altogether (retirement, other careers, independent schools, abroad)
- Data years: 2022/23 to 2024/25 (average of 3 years, 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.
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: 5.5%
- Persistently absent pupils: 11.7%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
- SEN unit for Other needs 35 places · 37 pupils at the last count
Places are usually for children with an EHC Plan and are arranged through the council, not the normal school application.
- Pupils on SEN Support: 22.4%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 16.0%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Speech, language and communications needs: 31 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 28 pupils
- Moderate learning difficulty: 14 pupils
- Specific learning difficulty: 4 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 1 pupil
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Speech, language and communications needs: 20 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 11 pupils
- Moderate learning difficulty: 9 pupils
- Specific learning difficulty: 8 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 5 pupils
These figures show the makeup of the school.
Educational Attainment
Good 2023 report
Year 6 SATs results
- Met the expected standard in reading, writing & maths: 60% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 6% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: in line with the Wiltshire average (59%)
- Compared with schools with similar pupils: Below (3-year average 53% against an expected 62%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 53%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 69% · Writing 67% · Maths 69% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 63%
- Average test scores: reading 104, maths 103
- Based on: 52 Year 6 pupils, 2024/25
View the School Context Comparator – how this school's SATs results compare with schools teaching similar pupils.
SATs results over time
Year 6 SATs: joint 91st of 174 junior and primary schools in the area
- =89Lyneham Primary School61%
- =89Monkton Park Primary School61%
- =91Castle Mead School60%
- =91Collingbourne Church of England Primary School60%
- =91Coombe Bissett Church of England Primary School60%
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21st of 143 primary schools in Wiltshire for Ofsted rating
- #19Broad Hinton Church of England Primary SchoolGood
- #20Broad Town Church of England Primary SchoolGood
- #21Castle Mead SchoolGood
- #22Chapmanslade Church of England Primary SchoolGood
- #23Cherhill CofE SchoolGood
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £8,030 (2024-25)
46th of 184 primary schools in Wiltshire for spending per pupil
- #44Seend Church of England Primary School£8,067
- #45Seagry Church of England Primary School£8,031
- #46Castle Mead School£8,030
- #47Chilton Foliat Church of England Primary School£8,025
- #48Lyneham Primary School£7,974
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