Lea and Garsdon Church of England Primary School
General Information
- Address: The Street, Lea, Malmesbury, SN16 9PG – View on map
- Phone: 01666823534
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Mrs Sian Alderson
- Age range: 4-11 years
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 28 families put it first for 30 places – 9 for every 10 places. 96% of them were offered a place. 1 of the 30 places went to families living outside the council area. Children putting it first, for every 10 places: 2023 10 · 2024 9 · 2025 10 · 2026 9
- Sixth form: No
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: Church of England
- Nursery provision: No
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 20
- % eligible for free school meals: 11.5%
- Pupil mix: 1 in 10 (less mixed than the Wiltshire average)
- English as an additional language: 2% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 10.5% 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 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: 4.1%
- Persistently absent pupils: 6.6%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
No dedicated Unit or Resourced Provision
- Pupils on SEN Support: 14.4%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 2.3%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Social, emotional and mental health: 7 pupils
- Speech, language and communications needs: 7 pupils
- SEN support but no specialist assessment of type of need: 6 pupils
- Specific learning difficulty: 4 pupils
- Moderate learning difficulty: 1 pupil
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Speech, language and communications needs: 2 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 2 pupils
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: 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: Below (3-year average 56% against an expected 61%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 56%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 100% · Writing 33% · Maths 50% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 50%
- Average test scores: reading 106, maths 100
- Based on: 6 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
- =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%
- =163Oaksey CofE Primary School33%
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57th of 143 primary schools in Wiltshire for Ofsted rating
- #55Langley Fitzurse Church of England Primary SchoolGood
- #56Larkhill Primary SchoolGood
- #57Lea and Garsdon Church of England Primary SchoolGood
- #58Longleaze Primary SchoolGood
- #59Luckington Community SchoolGood
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £6,387 (2024-25)
114th of 184 primary schools in Wiltshire for spending per pupil
- #112Burbage Primary School£6,440
- #113The Mead Community Primary School£6,433
- #114Lea and Garsdon Church of England Primary School£6,387
- #115St Patrick's Catholic Primary School, Corsham£6,370
- #116St George's Church of England Primary School, Semington£6,360
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