Southwick Church of England Primary School
General Information
- Address: Hollis Way, Southwick, Trowbridge, BA14 9PH – View on map
- Phone: 01225763325
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Mr David Cook
- Age range: 4-11 years
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 16 families put it first for 16 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: 2025 10 · 2026 10
- Sixth form: No
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: Church of England
- Nursery provision: No
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 25
- % eligible for free school meals: 14.0%
- 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: 6.7% a year (Wiltshire 17.3%, typical in England 13.9%)
- Where they went: about 100% moved to another school, 0% left state schools altogether (retirement, other careers, independent schools, abroad)
- Data years: 2022/23 to 2024/25 (one year, 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: 6.3%
- Persistently absent pupils: 10.7%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
No dedicated Unit or Resourced Provision
- Pupils on SEN Support: 20.8%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 3.9%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Speech, language and communications needs: 13 pupils
- Specific learning difficulty: 9 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 8 pupils
- SEN support but no specialist assessment of type of need: 3 pupils
- Moderate learning difficulty: 2 pupils
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Social, emotional and mental health: 3 pupils
- Specific learning difficulty: 2 pupils
- Moderate learning difficulty: 1 pupil
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 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: 62% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 8% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: 3 percentage points above the Wiltshire average (59%)
- Compared with schools with similar pupils: Below (3-year average 52% against an expected 58%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 52%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 77% · Writing 69% · Maths 77% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 69%
- Average test scores: reading 106, maths 104
- Based on: 26 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 83rd of 174 junior and primary schools in the area
- =83Holbrook Primary School62%
- =83Neston Primary School62%
- =83Southwick Church of England Primary School62%
- =83St Mary's Church of England Primary School & Nursery, Purton62%
- =83Stratford-sub-Castle Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School62%
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94th of 143 primary schools in Wiltshire for Ofsted rating
- #92Shrewton CofE Primary SchoolGood
- #93Somerfords' Walter Powell CofE AcademyGood
- #94Southwick Church of England Primary SchoolGood
- #95St Bartholomew's Primary AcademyGood
- #96St George's Church of England Primary School, SemingtonGood
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £7,196 (2024-25)
72nd of 184 primary schools in Wiltshire for spending per pupil
- #70Old Sarum Primary School£7,293
- #71Rowde CofE Academy£7,205
- #72Southwick Church of England Primary School£7,196
- #73Ramsbury Primary School£7,188
- #74Woodlands Primary School£7,132
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