Saint Edmund's Roman Catholic Primary School
General Information
- Address: Duncan Street, Calne, SN11 9BX – View on map
- Phone: 01249813821
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Mr Antony Moore
- Age range: 4-11 years
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 3 families put it first for 3 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 5 · 2024 10 · 2025 10 · 2026 10
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: Roman Catholic
- Nursery provision: No
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 17
- % eligible for free school meals: 22.4%
- Pupil mix: 3 in 10 (more mixed than the Wiltshire average)
- English as an additional language: 11% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 31.3% a year (Wiltshire 17.3%, typical in England 13.9%)
- Where they went: about 62% moved to another school, 38% 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: 6.1%
- Persistently absent pupils: 20.8%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
No dedicated Unit or Resourced Provision
- Pupils on SEN Support: 19.7%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 6.6%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Speech, language and communications needs: 7 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 4 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 2 pupils
- Moderate learning difficulty: 1 pupil
- Severe learning difficulty: 1 pupil
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 3 pupils
- Severe learning difficulty: 1 pupil
- Speech, language and communications needs: 1 pupil
These figures show the makeup of the school.
Educational Attainment
No overall grade given 2025 report
Year 6 SATs results
- Met the expected standard in reading, writing & maths: 39% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 9% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: 20 percentage points below the Wiltshire average (59%)
- Compared with schools with similar pupils: Well below (3-year average 39% against an expected 59%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 39%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 57% · Writing 61% · Maths 43% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 52%
- Average test scores: reading 103, maths 98
- Based on: 23 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: 154th of 174 junior and primary schools in the area
- =152Keevil CofE Primary School40%
- =152Newton Tony Church of England Voluntary Controlled School40%
- #154Saint Edmund's Roman Catholic Primary School39%
- =155Old Sarum Primary School38%
- =155River Mead School38%
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £9,085 (2024-25)
24th of 184 primary schools in Wiltshire for spending per pupil
- #22St Nicholas Church of England Primary School, Bromham£9,194
- #23Easton Royal Academy£9,132
- #24Saint Edmund's Roman Catholic Primary School£9,085
- #25Westwood-with-Iford Primary School£8,920
- #26Hilperton Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School£8,873
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