Rowde CofE Academy
General Information
- Address: High Street, Devizes, SN10 2ND – View on map
- Phone: 01380723991
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Miss Alice Simpson
- Age range: 4-11 years
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 15 families put it first for 16 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 9 · 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: 19
- % eligible for free school meals: 16.5%
- Pupil mix: 2 in 10 (less mixed than the Wiltshire average)
- English as an additional language: 2% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 16.1% a year (Wiltshire 17.3%, typical in England 13.9%)
- Where they went: about 72% moved to another school, 28% 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: 4.4%
- Persistently absent pupils: 10.0%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
No dedicated Unit or Resourced Provision
- Pupils on SEN Support: 30.4%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 2.6%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Social, emotional and mental health: 13 pupils
- Speech, language and communications needs: 8 pupils
- SEN support but no specialist assessment of type of need: 7 pupils
- Specific learning difficulty: 4 pupils
- Moderate learning difficulty: 3 pupils
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 2024 report
Year 6 SATs results
- Met the expected standard in reading, writing & maths: 78% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 15% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: 19 percentage points above the Wiltshire average (59%)
- Compared with schools with similar pupils: As expected (3-year average 62% against an expected 61%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 62%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 81% · Writing 85% · Maths 85% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 85%
- Average test scores: reading 107, maths 106
- Based on: 27 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 20th of 174 junior and primary schools in the area
- =17Colerne CofE Primary School79%
- =20Ramsbury Primary School78%
- =20Rowde CofE Academy78%
- =22Forest and Sandridge Church of England Primary School77%
- =22Mere School77%
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84th of 143 primary schools in Wiltshire for Ofsted rating
- #82Princecroft Primary SchoolGood
- #83Queen's Crescent SchoolGood
- #84Rowde CofE AcademyGood
- #85Rushall Church of England Primary SchoolGood
- #86Salisbury, Manor Fields Primary SchoolGood
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £7,205 (2024-25)
71st of 184 primary schools in Wiltshire for spending per pupil
- #69The Corsham Regis Primary Academy£7,338
- #70Old Sarum Primary School£7,293
- #71Rowde CofE Academy£7,205
- #72Southwick Church of England Primary School£7,196
- #73Ramsbury Primary School£7,188
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