Kemble Primary School
General Information
- Address: School Road, Kemble, Cirencester, GL7 6AG – View on map
- Phone: 01285770303
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Mrs Joanne Rogers
- Age range: 4-11 years
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 17 families put it first for 15 places – 11 for every 10 places. 88% of them were offered a place. No places went to families living outside the council area. Children putting it first, for every 10 places: 2023 11 · 2024 7 · 2025 10 · 2026 11
- Sixth form: No
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: Does not apply
- Nursery provision: No
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 7
- % eligible for free school meals: 6.7%
- Pupil mix: 1 in 10 (less mixed than the Cotswold average)
- English as an additional language: 0% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 12.8% a year (Cotswold 16.5%, typical in England 13.9%)
- Where they went: about 42% moved to another school, 58% 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. This is a small staff, so one or two teachers leaving moves the figure a lot.
Behaviour
Awaiting Data
Across Gloucestershire: suspensions by reason
- Suspensions for sexual misconduct: 9 (0.2 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.2)
- Permanent exclusions for sexual misconduct: 0
- Suspensions for bullying: 11 (0.2 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.2)
- Suspensions for abuse against sexual orientation or gender identity: 1 (0.0 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 Gloucestershire (the council area this school is in), 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: 2.7%
- Persistently absent pupils: 2.2%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
No dedicated Unit or Resourced Provision
- Pupils on SEN Support: 15.4%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 2.9%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Social, emotional and mental health: 4 pupils
- Moderate learning difficulty: 3 pupils
- Speech, language and communications needs: 3 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 2 pupils
- Other difficulty or disability: 2 pupils
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Social, emotional and mental health: 1 pupil
- Speech, language and communications needs: 1 pupil
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 1 pupil
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: 77% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 31% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: 14 percentage points above the Cotswold average (64%)
- Compared with schools with similar pupils: Above (3-year average 74% against an expected 64%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 74%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 92% · Writing 77% · Maths 85% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 77%
- Average test scores: reading 111, maths 108
- Based on: 13 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 11th of 37 junior and primary schools in the area
- =9Southrop Church of England Primary School78%
- =11Hatherop Church of England Primary School77%
- =11Kemble Primary School77%
- #13Blockley Church of England Primary School74%
- #14Ampney Crucis Church of England Primary School73%
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13th of 29 primary schools in Cotswold for Ofsted rating
- #11Coberley Church of England Primary SchoolGood
- #12Hatherop Church of England Primary SchoolGood
- #13Kemble Primary SchoolGood
- #14Kempsford Church of England Primary SchoolGood
- #15Meysey Hampton Church of England Primary SchoolGood
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £6,542 (2024-25)
34th of 43 primary schools in Cotswold for spending per pupil
- #32Leighterton Primary School£6,615
- #33Birdlip Primary School£6,578
- #34Kemble Primary School£6,542
- #35St Mary's Church of England Primary School£6,384
- #36St Lawrence Church of England Primary School£6,143
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