Minety Church of England Primary School
General Information
- Address: Sawyers Hill, Minety, Malmesbury, SN16 9QL – View on map
- Phone: 01666860257
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Mr Johnathon Howard
- Age range: 4-11 years
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 9 families put it first for 9 places – 10 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 10 · 2025 10 · 2026 10
- Sixth form: No
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: Church of England
- Nursery provision: No
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 12
- % eligible for free school meals: 11.1%
- Pupil mix: 2 in 10 (less mixed than the Wiltshire average)
- English as an additional language: 0% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 10.2% a year (Wiltshire 17.3%, typical in England 13.9%)
- Where they went: about 48% moved to another school, 52% 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: 4.5%
- Persistently absent pupils: 8.2%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
No dedicated Unit or Resourced Provision
- Pupils on SEN Support: 13.0%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 2.8%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Social, emotional and mental health: 6 pupils
- Specific learning difficulty: 3 pupils
- Speech, language and communications needs: 3 pupils
- Moderate learning difficulty: 1 pupil
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 1 pupil
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 2 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 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: 75% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 5% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: 16 percentage points above the Wiltshire average (59%)
- Compared with schools with similar pupils: Above (3-year average 73% against an expected 64%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 73%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 76% · Writing 75% · Maths 90% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 67%
- Average test scores: reading 105, maths 105
- 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: joint 28th of 174 junior and primary schools in the area
- =22The Minster CofE Primary School77%
- #27Pewsey Primary School76%
- =28Minety Church of England Primary School75%
- =28Pitton Church of England Primary School75%
- #30St Nicholas Church of England Primary School74%
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66th of 143 primary schools in Wiltshire for Ofsted rating
- #64Marlborough St Mary's CE Primary SchoolGood
- #65Mere SchoolGood
- #66Minety Church of England Primary SchoolGood
- #67Monkton Park Primary SchoolGood
- #68Neston Primary SchoolGood
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £6,879 (2024-25)
82nd of 184 primary schools in Wiltshire for spending per pupil
- #80St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Devizes£6,920
- #81The Avenue Primary School and Children's Centre£6,916
- #82Minety Church of England Primary School£6,879
- #83St Mary's Catholic Primary School£6,866
- #84St Katharine's CofE Primary School£6,821
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