Christ Church Church of England Controlled Primary School
General Information
- Address: Berryfield Road, Bradford-on-Avon, BA15 1ST – View on map
- Phone: 01225863444
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Mrs Sue Tudge
- Age range: 4-11 years
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 45 families put it first for 50 places – 9 for every 10 places. Every one of them was offered a place. 1 of the 50 places went to families living outside the council area. Children putting it first, for every 10 places: 2023 10 · 2024 10 · 2025 11 · 2026 9
- Sixth form: No
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: Church of England
- Nursery provision: No
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 23
- % eligible for free school meals: 5.7%
- Pupil mix: 2 in 10 (less mixed than the Wiltshire average)
- English as an additional language: 3% (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 29% moved to another school, 71% 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: 3.4%
- Persistently absent pupils: 4.0%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
No dedicated Unit or Resourced Provision
- Pupils on SEN Support: 15.9%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 2.5%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- SEN support but no specialist assessment of type of need: 21 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 16 pupils
- Speech, language and communications needs: 16 pupils
- Specific learning difficulty: 5 pupils
- Hearing impairment: 2 pupils
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Social, emotional and mental health: 3 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 3 pupils
- Speech, language and communications needs: 2 pupils
- Specific learning difficulty: 1 pupil
- Moderate learning difficulty: 1 pupil
These figures show the makeup of the school.
Educational Attainment
Good 2024 report
Year 6 SATs results
- Met the expected standard in reading, writing & maths: 71% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 10% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: 12 percentage points above the Wiltshire average (59%)
- Compared with schools with similar pupils: Above (3-year average 73% against an expected 67%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 73%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 87% · Writing 82% · Maths 85% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 86%
- Average test scores: reading 109, maths 107
- Based on: 78 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 40th of 174 junior and primary schools in the area
- =38Bishops Cannings Church of England Primary School72%
- =38Queen's Crescent School72%
- =40Christ Church Church of England Controlled Primary School71%
- =40Malmesbury Church of England Primary School71%
- =40West Ashton Church of England Primary School71%
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27th of 143 primary schools in Wiltshire for Ofsted rating
- #25Chilton Foliat Church of England Primary SchoolGood
- #26Chirton Church of England Primary SchoolGood
- #27Christ Church Church of England Controlled Primary SchoolGood
- #28Churchfields, the Village SchoolGood
- #29Colerne CofE Primary SchoolGood
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £5,775 (2024-25)
155th of 184 primary schools in Wiltshire for spending per pupil
- #153Monkton Park Primary School£5,832
- #154Zouch Academy£5,796
- #155Christ Church Church of England Controlled Primary School£5,775
- #156St Bartholomew's Primary Academy£5,768
- #157Cherhill CofE School£5,687
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