Queen's Crescent School
General Information
- Address: Windsor Close, Chippenham, SN14 0QT – View on map
- Phone: 01249460190
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Mr James Essam
- Age range: 4-11 years
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 70 families put it first for 60 places – 12 for every 10 places. 86% of them were 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 12
- Sixth form: No
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: Does not apply
- Nursery provision: No
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 46
- % eligible for free school meals: 11.2%
- Pupil mix: 2 in 10 (similar to the Wiltshire average)
- English as an additional language: 3% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 13% a year (Wiltshire 17.3%, typical in England 13.9%)
- Where they went: about 68% moved to another school, 32% 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: 4.4%
- Persistently absent pupils: 7.5%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
No dedicated Unit or Resourced Provision
- Pupils on SEN Support: 19.5%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 3.2%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Moderate learning difficulty: 27 pupils
- Speech, language and communications needs: 26 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 16 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 4 pupils
- Other difficulty or disability: 3 pupils
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Speech, language and communications needs: 4 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 4 pupils
- Moderate learning difficulty: 2 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 2 pupils
- Physical disability: 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: 72% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 15% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: 13 percentage points above the Wiltshire average (59%)
- Compared with schools with similar pupils: Above (3-year average 71% against an expected 65%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 71%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 83% · Writing 82% · Maths 82% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 77%
- Average test scores: reading 106, maths 107
- Based on: 60 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 38th of 174 junior and primary schools in the area
- =31Whiteparish All Saints Church of England Primary School73%
- =38Bishops Cannings Church of England Primary School72%
- =38Queen's Crescent School72%
- =40Christ Church Church of England Controlled Primary School71%
- =40Malmesbury Church of England Primary School71%
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83rd of 143 primary schools in Wiltshire for Ofsted rating
- #81Priestley Primary SchoolGood
- #82Princecroft Primary SchoolGood
- #83Queen's Crescent SchoolGood
- #84Rowde CofE AcademyGood
- #85Rushall Church of England Primary SchoolGood
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £5,320 (2024-25)
165th of 184 primary schools in Wiltshire for spending per pupil
- #163Bitham Brook Primary School£5,527
- #164Forest and Sandridge Church of England Primary School£5,517
- #165Queen's Crescent School£5,320
- #166Bowerhill Primary School£5,244
- #167Sutton Benger Church of England Primary School£4,694
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