Ludgershall Castle Primary School
General Information
- Address: Short Street, Ludgershall, Andover, SP11 9RB – View on map
- Phone: 01264790375
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Mrs Sophie Lowe
- Age range: 4-11 years
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 34 families put it first for 44 places – 8 for every 10 places. Every one of them was offered a place. 1 of the 44 places went to families living outside the council area. Children putting it first, for every 10 places: 2023 9 · 2024 10 · 2025 10 · 2026 8
- Sixth form: No
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: None
- Nursery provision: No
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 63
- % eligible for free school meals: 23.8%
- Pupil mix: 4 in 10 (more mixed than the Wiltshire average)
- English as an additional language: 8% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 15.2% a year (Wiltshire 17.3%, typical in England 13.9%)
- Where they went: about 65% moved to another school, 35% 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: 6.7%
- Persistently absent pupils: 17.8%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
No dedicated Unit or Resourced Provision
- Pupils on SEN Support: 10.9%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 3.4%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Specific learning difficulty: 7 pupils
- Moderate learning difficulty: 6 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 5 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 5 pupils
- Speech, language and communications needs: 4 pupils
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Speech, language and communications needs: 2 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 2 pupils
- Profound and multiple learning difficulty: 2 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 2 pupils
- Vision 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: 43% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 4% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: 16 percentage points below the Wiltshire average (59%)
- Compared with schools with similar pupils: Well below (3-year average 52% against an expected 64%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 52%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 59% · Writing 57% · Maths 57% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 57%
- Average test scores: reading 103, maths 102
- Based on: 49 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 145th of 174 junior and primary schools in the area
- =142St John's CofE School45%
- =142The Trinity Church of England Primary Academy45%
- =145Ludgershall Castle Primary School43%
- =145Nursteed Community Primary School43%
- =145St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Malmesbury43%
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60th of 143 primary schools in Wiltshire for Ofsted rating
- #58Longleaze Primary SchoolGood
- #59Luckington Community SchoolGood
- #60Ludgershall Castle Primary SchoolGood
- #61Ludwell Primary SchoolGood
- #62Lydiard Millicent CofE Primary SchoolGood
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £5,985 (2024-25)
143rd of 184 primary schools in Wiltshire for spending per pupil
- #141Great Bedwyn Church of England School£6,035
- #142Bemerton St John Church of England Primary£6,029
- #143Ludgershall Castle Primary School£5,985
- #144Bulford St Leonard's C of E (VA) Primary School£5,968
- #145Fitzmaurice Primary School£5,961
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