Frogwell Primary School
General Information
- Address: Derriads Lane, Chippenham, SN14 0DG – View on map
- Phone: 01249652815
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Miss Imogen Woods
- Age range: 4-11 years
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 13 families put it first for 13 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: No
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 69
- % eligible for free school meals: 43.4%
- Pupil mix: 4 in 10 (more mixed than the Wiltshire average)
- English as an additional language: 18% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 16.9% a year (Wiltshire 17.3%, typical in England 13.9%)
- Where they went: about 45% moved to another school, 55% left state schools altogether (retirement, other careers, independent schools, abroad)
- Data years: 2022/23 to 2024/25 (average of 2 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. 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: 6.8%
- Persistently absent pupils: 18.2%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
- Resourced provision for Other needs 25 places · 24 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: 18.9%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 19.5%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Social, emotional and mental health: 13 pupils
- Moderate learning difficulty: 9 pupils
- Speech, language and communications needs: 6 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 2 pupils
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Speech, language and communications needs: 10 pupils
- Severe learning difficulty: 7 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 5 pupils
- Vision impairment: 3 pupils
- Moderate learning difficulty: 2 pupils
These figures show the makeup of the school.
Educational Attainment
Requires improvement 2024 report
Year 6 SATs results
- Met the expected standard in reading, writing & maths: 33% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 0% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: 26 percentage points below the Wiltshire average (59%)
- Compared with schools with similar pupils: Well below (3-year average 31% against an expected 54%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 31%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 48% · Writing 48% · Maths 45% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 33%
- Average test scores: reading 101, maths 100
- Based on: 33 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 163rd of 174 junior and primary schools in the area
- =160Westbury Church of England Junior School35%
- =160Wilton CofE Primary School35%
- =163Frogwell Primary School33%
- =163Lea and Garsdon Church of England Primary School33%
- =163Morgan's Vale and Woodfalls Church of England Primary School33%
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136th of 143 primary schools in Wiltshire for Ofsted rating
- #134Derry Hill Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary SchoolRequires improvement
- #135Five Lanes Church of England Primary SchoolRequires improvement
- #136Frogwell Primary SchoolRequires improvement
- #137Longford Church of England Primary SchoolRequires improvement
- #138Marden Vale CofE AcademyRequires improvement
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £9,745 (2024-25)
17th of 184 primary schools in Wiltshire for spending per pupil
- #15Studley Green Primary School£10,088
- #16Broad Hinton Church of England Primary School£9,823
- #17Frogwell Primary School£9,745
- #18Luckington Community School£9,684
- #19Broad Town Church of England Primary School£9,487
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