Malvern Wyche CofE Primary School
General Information
- Address: Lower Wyche Road, Malvern, WR14 4ET – View on map
- Phone: 01684573205
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Mr Stephen Murphy
- Age range: 5-11 years
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 27 families put it first for 20 places – 14 for every 10 places. 63% of them were offered a place. 1 of the 20 places went to families living outside the council area. Children putting it first, for every 10 places: 2023 11 · 2024 9 · 2025 10 · 2026 14
- Sixth form: No
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: Church of England
- Nursery provision: No
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 4
- % eligible for free school meals: 3.0%
- Pupil mix: 3 in 10 (more mixed than the Malvern Hills average)
- English as an additional language: 3% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 6.9% a year (Malvern Hills 14.3%, typical in England 13.9%)
- Where they went: about 0% moved to another school, 100% 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 Worcestershire: suspensions by reason
- Suspensions for sexual misconduct: 3 (0.1 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.2)
- Permanent exclusions for sexual misconduct: 0
- Suspensions for bullying: 6 (0.1 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.2)
- Suspensions for abuse against sexual orientation or gender identity: 2 (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 Worcestershire (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: 5.0%
- Persistently absent pupils: 12.6%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
No dedicated Unit or Resourced Provision
- Pupils on SEN Support: 15.0%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 7.5%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- SEN support but no specialist assessment of type of need: 11 pupils
- Speech, language and communications needs: 4 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 2 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 2 pupils
- Hearing impairment: 1 pupil
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Speech, language and communications needs: 3 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 3 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 2 pupils
- Profound and multiple learning difficulty: 1 pupil
- Moderate learning difficulty: 1 pupil
These figures show the makeup of the school.
Educational Attainment
Good 2020 report
Year 6 SATs results
- Met the expected standard in reading, writing & maths: 81% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 10% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: 20 percentage points above the Malvern Hills average (61%)
- Compared with schools with similar pupils: Well above (3-year average 82% against an expected 63%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 82%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 86% · Writing 81% · Maths 90% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 81%
- Average test scores: reading 108, maths 107
- Based on: 21 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: 4th of 34 junior and primary schools in the area
- =1Eldersfield Lawn CofE Primary School88%
- =1Hanley Swan St Gabriel's with St Mary's CofE Primary School88%
- #4Malvern Wyche CofE Primary School81%
- #5Suckley Primary School80%
- #6Welland Primary School74%
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14th of 25 primary schools in Malvern Hills for Ofsted rating
- #12Malvern Parish CofE Primary SchoolGood
- #13Malvern Wells CofE Primary SchoolGood
- #14Malvern Wyche CofE Primary SchoolGood
- #15Martley CofE Primary SchoolGood
- #16Northleigh CofE Primary SchoolGood
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £6,996 (2024-25)
23rd of 35 primary schools in Malvern Hills for spending per pupil
- #21Abberley Parochial VC Primary School£7,323
- #22Hanley Swan St Gabriel's with St Mary's CofE Primary School£7,174
- #23Malvern Wyche CofE Primary School£6,996
- #24Great Malvern Primary School£6,980
- #25Powick CofE Primary School£6,955
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