King's Gate Primary School
General Information
- Address: Great Amber Way, Amesbury, Salisbury, SP4 7GD – View on map
- Phone: 01980669777
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Mrs Sasha Owen
- Age range: 4-11 years
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 45 families put it first for 30 places – 15 for every 10 places. 67% 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 9 · 2024 16 · 2025 14 · 2026 15
- Sixth form: No
- Intake: Mixed
- Nursery provision: No
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 31
- % eligible for free school meals: 14.7%
- Pupil mix: 3 in 10 (similar to the Wiltshire average)
- English as an additional language: 6% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 4.5% a year (Wiltshire 17.3%, typical in England 13.9%)
- Where they went: about 100% moved to another school, 0% 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 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: 4.3%
- Persistently absent pupils: 9.6%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
No dedicated Unit or Resourced Provision
- Pupils on SEN Support: 16.1%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 1.9%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Speech, language and communications needs: 22 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 7 pupils
- Specific learning difficulty: 4 pupils
- Other difficulty or disability: 1 pupil
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Speech, language and communications needs: 2 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 1 pupil
- Multi-sensory impairment: 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: 80% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 27% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: 21 percentage points above the Wiltshire average (59%)
- Compared with schools with similar pupils: As expected (3-year average 67% against an expected 71%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 67%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 87% · Writing 93% · Maths 87% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 80%
- Average test scores: reading 111, maths 108
- Based on: 15 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 15th of 174 junior and primary schools in the area
- =13St Barnabas Church of England School, Market Lavington82%
- =13Woodborough Church of England Primary School82%
- =15King's Gate Primary School80%
- =15Netheravon All Saints CofE Primary School80%
- =17Alderbury and West Grimstead Church of England Primary School79%
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52nd of 143 primary schools in Wiltshire for Ofsted rating
- #50Keevil CofE Primary SchoolGood
- #51Kennet Valley Church of England Aided Primary SchoolGood
- #52King's Gate Primary SchoolGood
- #53Kings Lodge Primary SchoolGood
- #54Lacock Church of England Primary SchoolGood
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £5,623 (2024-25)
158th of 184 primary schools in Wiltshire for spending per pupil
- #156St Bartholomew's Primary Academy£5,768
- #157Cherhill CofE School£5,687
- #158King's Gate Primary School£5,623
- #159Mere School£5,596
- #160The Minster CofE Primary School£5,577
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