Sambourne Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School
General Information
- Address: Sambourne Road, Warminster, BA12 8LF – View on map
- Phone: 01985212458
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Mr Ian Albrow
- Age range: 4-11 years
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 11 families put it first for 11 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 8 · 2024 8 · 2025 8 · 2026 10
- Sixth form: No
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: Church of England
- Nursery provision: No
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 21
- % eligible for free school meals: 13.7%
- Pupil mix: 4 in 10 (more mixed than the Wiltshire average)
- English as an additional language: 9% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 0% a year (Wiltshire 17.3%, typical in England 13.9%)
- 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: 5.5%
- Persistently absent pupils: 13.4%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
No dedicated Unit or Resourced Provision
- Pupils on SEN Support: 13.1%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 3.9%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Speech, language and communications needs: 9 pupils
- SEN support but no specialist assessment of type of need: 5 pupils
- Moderate learning difficulty: 2 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 2 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 1 pupil
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Speech, language and communications needs: 3 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 2 pupils
- Physical disability: 1 pupil
These figures show the makeup of the school.
Educational Attainment
Good 2022 report
Year 6 SATs results
- Met the expected standard in reading, writing & maths: 68% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 5% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: 9 percentage points above the Wiltshire average (59%)
- Compared with schools with similar pupils: As expected (3-year average 65% against an expected 64%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 65%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 77% · Writing 82% · Maths 73% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 68%
- Average test scores: reading 104, maths 102
- Based on: 22 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 52nd of 174 junior and primary schools in the area
- =52New Close Primary School68%
- =52Redland Primary School68%
- =52Sambourne Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School68%
- =57Brinkworth Earl Danby's Church of England Primary67%
- =57Lydiard Millicent CofE Primary School67%
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87th of 143 primary schools in Wiltshire for Ofsted rating
- #85Rushall Church of England Primary SchoolGood
- #86Salisbury, Manor Fields Primary SchoolGood
- #87Sambourne Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary SchoolGood
- #88Seagry Church of England Primary SchoolGood
- #89Seend Church of England Primary SchoolGood
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £6,441 (2024-25)
111th of 184 primary schools in Wiltshire for spending per pupil
- #109Dauntsey Academy Primary School£6,481
- #110St Mary's Church of England Primary School & Nursery, Purton£6,464
- #111Sambourne Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School£6,441
- #112Burbage Primary School£6,440
- #113The Mead Community Primary School£6,433
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