Malmesbury Church of England Primary School
General Information
- Address: Tetbury Hill, Malmesbury, SN16 9JR – View on map
- Phone: 01666823514
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Mr Stephen Heal
- Age range: 4-11 years
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 36 families put it first for 38 places – 9 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 10 · 2024 11 · 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: 47
- % eligible for free school meals: 11.5%
- Pupil mix: 3 in 10 (similar to the Wiltshire average)
- English as an additional language: 8% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 10.6% a year (Wiltshire 17.3%, typical in England 13.9%)
- Where they went: about 39% moved to another school, 61% 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: 4.1%
- Persistently absent pupils: 9.9%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
No dedicated Unit or Resourced Provision
- Pupils on SEN Support: 13.2%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 4.6%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- SEN support but no specialist assessment of type of need: 17 pupils
- Speech, language and communications needs: 16 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 8 pupils
- Specific learning difficulty: 5 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 4 pupils
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Speech, language and communications needs: 7 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 4 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 3 pupils
- Moderate learning difficulty: 2 pupils
- Specific learning difficulty: 1 pupil
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: 71% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 8% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: 12 percentage points above the Wiltshire average (59%)
- Compared with schools with similar pupils: Above (3-year average 71% against an expected 66%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 71%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 82% · Writing 84% · Maths 82% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 82%
- Average test scores: reading 107, maths 106
- Based on: 62 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 40th of 174 junior and primary schools in the area
- =38Queen's Crescent School72%
- =40Christ Church Church of England Controlled Primary School71%
- =40Malmesbury Church of England Primary School71%
- =40West Ashton Church of England Primary School71%
- =40Wylye Valley Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School71%
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63rd of 143 primary schools in Wiltshire for Ofsted rating
- #61Ludwell Primary SchoolGood
- #62Lydiard Millicent CofE Primary SchoolGood
- #63Malmesbury Church of England Primary SchoolGood
- #64Marlborough St Mary's CE Primary SchoolGood
- #65Mere SchoolGood
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £6,306 (2024-25)
121st of 184 primary schools in Wiltshire for spending per pupil
- #119Broad Chalke CofE Primary School£6,332
- #120Greentrees Primary School£6,326
- #121Malmesbury Church of England Primary School£6,306
- #122Sarum St Paul's CofE (VA) Primary School£6,297
- #123Walwayne Court School£6,240
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