Shaw CE Primary School
General Information
- Address: Corsham Road, Shaw, Melksham, SN12 8EQ – View on map
- Phone: 01225702544
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Mrs Amy Edwards
- Age range: 4-11 years
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 31 families put it first for 30 places – 10 for every 10 places. 97% 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 10
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: Church of England
- Nursery provision: No
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 31
- % eligible for free school meals: 16.4%
- 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: 45.4% a year (Wiltshire 17.3%, typical in England 13.9%)
- Where they went: about 35% moved to another school, 65% 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: 4.8%
- Persistently absent pupils: 12.1%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
No dedicated Unit or Resourced Provision
- Pupils on SEN Support: 19.6%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 3.2%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- SEN support but no specialist assessment of type of need: 26 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 3 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 3 pupils
- Speech, language and communications needs: 2 pupils
- Specific learning difficulty: 1 pupil
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Speech, language and communications needs: 2 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 2 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 1 pupil
- Other difficulty or 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: 69% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 9% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: 10 percentage points above the Wiltshire average (59%)
- Compared with schools with similar pupils: As expected (3-year average 58% against an expected 62%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 58%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 72% · Writing 81% · Maths 75% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 63%
- Average test scores: reading 104, maths 105
- Based on: 32 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 48th of 174 junior and primary schools in the area
- =48Great Bedwyn Church of England School69%
- =48Salisbury, Manor Fields Primary School69%
- =48Shaw CE Primary School69%
- =52Crudwell CofE Primary School68%
- =52Longleaze Primary School68%
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91st of 143 primary schools in Wiltshire for Ofsted rating
- #89Seend Church of England Primary SchoolGood
- #90Semley Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary SchoolGood
- #91Shaw CE Primary SchoolGood
- #92Shrewton CofE Primary SchoolGood
- #93Somerfords' Walter Powell CofE AcademyGood
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £5,954 (2024-25)
147th of 184 primary schools in Wiltshire for spending per pupil
- #145Fitzmaurice Primary School£5,961
- #146West Ashton Church of England Primary School£5,958
- #147Shaw CE Primary School£5,954
- #148St John's Catholic Primary School, Trowbridge£5,954
- #149Box Church of England Primary School£5,952
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